This $800,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports the development of innovative snapshot computational imaging systems that leverage metaoptics technology. The project, led by Dartmouth College, aims to create computational camera simulators capable of modeling the complex interactions of light across various dimensions, and to leverage these tools to design and build...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), provides $457,500 to Trustees of Boston University from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025. The funding supports research to develop new classes of photodetectors based on metasurface nanophotonics technology. This aims to enable advanced computational imaging capabilities beyond traditional sensors, such as producing focused...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $467,930 to Northeastern University to design and implement a novel class of metasurface-based optical neural networks, termed "meta-ONNs". The goal is to develop multiplexed meta-ONNs that can operate at optical frequencies and perform diverse functions like all-optical image recognition and pattern generation. The project consists of three main research thrusts: (1)...
This Project Grant award, valued at $400,000, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under its Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070). The award supports the development of innovative "snapshot computational imaging" systems that leverage recent advances in metaoptics, or optical devices using sub-wavelength nano-structures, to capture multidimensional information about light interactions with the world. The key objectives of this...
The Pennsylvania State University received a $445,000 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems on October 1, 2021 to support research activities through September 30, 2024. The grant funds research to develop compressive ultrahigh-speed imaging capabilities beyond trillions of frames per second using spatially and temporally encoded metasurfaces. This work directly supports the goals of the NSF Engineering program (CFDA...
This $380,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems under CFDA Program 47.041 (Engineering) will fund the development of new types of on-chip "topological photodetectors" that can detect and differentiate between different modes and properties of light, such as its phase, polarization, and orbital angular momentum. These novel photodetectors, based on emerging quantum materials like Weyl semimetals,...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will provide $402,134 from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027 to support research and development of a novel class of semiconductor nanostructures called non-Hermitian topological photonic crystals. The key products and services to be delivered include: Designing, fabricating, and characterizing the optical properties and optoelectronic device applications of these photonic crystal slabs,...
The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded a $280,000 Project Grant to The Trustees of Princeton University for collaborative research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: SWIFT: WIDEBAND SPECTRUM COEXISTENCE ENABLED BY PHOTONIC CIRCUITS: CROSS-LAYER DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION." The period of performance for this award is from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2024. The goal of this research is to improve spectrum coexistence for wireless...
The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded Georgetown University a $349,838 Project Grant under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2024. The grant will support research into the effects of quantum confinement in photosensors made from transition metal dichalcogenides. As part of its mission to improve engineering research and education, the NSF Directorate for Engineering provides...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $449,795 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of Pittsburgh. The 5-year award, effective May 1, 2024, aims to develop a bio-inspired sensing, computing, and learning framework for next-generation computer vision (CV) systems. The proposed research will focus on three key areas: 1) creating retina-inspired vision sensors that outperform existing cameras, 2) modeling and implementing scalable corticomorphic...