The National Science Foundation awarded Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University a $450,000 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop interference canceling technologies for improved coexistence between passive and active radio systems from September 15, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The grant funds research at Virginia Tech to design small interference mitigation techniques that allow unlicensed wireless devices like Wi-Fi routers and Bluetooth...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems has awarded a $343,324 Project Grant to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The grant will fund research to develop "Perfect Electromagnetic Teleporting Metasurfaces" - a new class of conformal metasurface devices capable of routing electromagnetic energy around building corners to enhance 5G/6G...
The Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) was awarded a $748,463 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences to develop electronically-reconfigurable surfaces for improved coexistence between radio astronomy and satellite communications systems. Under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA #47.049), which supports research to advance scientific knowledge and understanding in core areas of...
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) received a $500,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems on February 1, 2022 to support research titled "CAREER: LOW-LOSS SPINTRONIC DEVICES WITH VERTICALLY ENGINEERED MAGNETS" through January 31, 2027. The award is being used to fund research under the NSF Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041) to develop low-loss spintronic devices...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems (ECCS) Division Project Grant award of $400,000 to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) aims to develop learning-based interference mitigation techniques for wireless spectrum sharing. The research will focus on three key thrusts: 1) designing supervisory learning algorithms to enable individual radio devices to decode data packets in the presence of unknown interference, 2)...
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) was awarded a $230,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: ECCS-EPSRC: NITRIDE SUPER-JUNCTION HEMTS FOR ROBUST, EFFICIENT, FAST POWER SWITCHING" under the NSF's Engineering (ENG) program. The goal of the research is to develop nitride super-junction high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) for robust, efficient and fast power switching...
The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded Virginia Commonwealth University a $220,000 Project Grant under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The two-year award will support research into developing spintronic extreme sub-wavelength and super-gain active electronically scanned antennas enabled by phonon-magnon-plasmon-photon coupling. Specifically, the university will introduce surface plasmons into magnetostrictive nanomagnets...
The Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, known as Virginia Tech, received a $2,445,454 Project Grant award from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) under the Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund Grant Program (CFDA 11.038). The purpose of this 3-year grant is for Virginia Tech to develop a comprehensive cybersecurity testing framework and demonstrate its effectiveness using 5G Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) proof-of-concept testbeds....
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) was awarded a three-year, $311,499 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to conduct collaborative research on large-amplitude, easy-plane spin-orbit torque oscillators. Under this award, Virginia Tech will develop a new class of microscale electronic oscillators called easy-plane spin-orbit torque oscillators, which could address issues like small output signals, nanoscale...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $749,999 Project Grant under its Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) to develop efficient schemes for spectrum coexistence between satellite and terrestrial wireless communications systems. The 3-year project, titled "SWIFT-SAT: Efficient and On-Demand Spectrum Coexistence for Satellite-Terrestrial Systems", aims to address key technical...