Project Grant 2128962
- The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees received a $323,500 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: ALL-OPTICAL FABRICATION OF LOW-LOSS, HIGH-INDEX-CONTRAST, SILICON-IN-SILICON WAVEGUIDES." The award period is from September 15, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The grant funds collaborative research at the University of Central Florida's campus in...
- This $500,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will support research at The Washington University in St. Louis to develop a heterogeneous photonic integration platform. The key technical objectives are to: Enable the van der Waals integration of dissimilar functional nanomembranes, including barium titanate, gallium nitride, and cobalt ferrite, onto silicon and silicon nitride photonic circuits. This will allow the creation of...
- The University of Kansas Center for Research Inc. was awarded a $303,992 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. The grant funds research exploring how light interacts with soft matter, such as liquids containing colloidal particles, to create new photonic structures and devices. Key objectives include developing "transient photonic devices" that can self-assemble and disassemble in response to light, as well as...
- This Project Grant award of $500,000.00 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of Maryland, College Park will explore a new class of low-loss phase change materials to control light propagation and enable "synthetic dimensions" for advanced optical information processing and computing. The project aims to develop reconfigurable modal control and topological nanophotonics for next-generation communications and quantum computing...
- 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,...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (CFDA 47.041) awarded a $255,000 Project Grant to North Carolina State University (NC State) to theoretically investigate and experimentally demonstrate compact, on-chip III-V lasers that are robust, efficient, and have a tailorable single-mode operation range. The proposed program aims to develop a family of topologically protected lasers to satisfy requirements for next-generation lasers used in photonic integrated circuits...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded Kansas State University a $250,000 Project Grant under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) on March 15, 2022 to support research and education activities concluding February 28, 2027. The award will fund the development of high-performance, low-noise field effect transistors and biosensors using two-dimensional atomically thin materials and one-dimensional contacts. Specifically,...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities program project grant award provides $300,000 to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) to conduct research on integrated photonic platforms leveraging solution-processed wide-bandgap cesium lead halide perovskites. The 2-year project, starting January 1, 2025, aims to advance the understanding of perovskite crystal growth and patterning synthesis, as well as develop cost-effective integrated photonic devices that can enable...
- This $413,527 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research at the University of Maryland, College Park to develop new energy-efficient tuning elements for silicon photonic integrated circuits. The project aims to create a novel class of switchable, digital, non-volatile micromechanical tuning elements that can precisely and efficiently adjust the resonant wavelengths in photonic circuits without requiring continuous active tuning....
- The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded The Leland Stanford Junior University a $375,000 Project Grant under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The grant will support the development of computational tools for photonic design from August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2024. Specifically, Stanford University will leverage physics-driven approaches to create new computational methods and software tools that enable the design of...
Kansas State University received a $161,500 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems on September 15, 2021 to complete the project by August 31, 2024. The grant will support collaborative research to develop all-optical fabrication techniques for producing low-loss, high-index-contrast silicon-in-silicon waveguides. This research aligns with the NSF Directorate for Engineering's goal of fostering innovation in engineering research under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The project aims to improve fabrication methods for integrated photonic devices, which could enable new applications in communications, computing and sensing. Kansas State University will leverage its expertise in materials engineering and photonics to advance next-generation silicon photonics technologies over the three-year grant period.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $161.5k | 8/10/21 |