The National Science Foundation awarded a $774,759 project grant to the University of Texas at Austin from the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) for collaborative research on quasi-direct semiconductors. The four-year award beginning October 2021 will support the development of new materials for semiconductor applications through collaborative research on direct bandgap semiconductors. The Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to strengthen the nation's...
The National Science Foundation Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences awarded a $647,165 Project Grant to the University of Colorado Boulder to support research titled "CAREER: HIGH ACCURACY METHODS FOR ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE OF MOLECULES AND MATERIALS" from February 1, 2022 through January 31, 2027. The grant supports the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these scientific fields and strengthen the nation's scientific...
The National Science Foundation awarded $479,999 to the Colorado School of Mines under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) for the project "Defect States of Silicon Allotropes for Quantum Information Science" from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024. This three-year Project Grant will support research into defect states of silicon allotropes for applications in quantum information science. The Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to promote...
The National Science Foundation awarded Stanford University a $435,091 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support research titled "Placing Spins in Semiconductors" from June 1, 2021 through May 31, 2024. The grant will fund research to promote progress in the mathematical and physical sciences by increasing understanding of major problems in these fields. Specifically, the award will support Stanford University's work to place spins in...
The National Science Foundation Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences awarded a $310,000 Project Grant to the University of Arizona to support research exploring graphene nanoribbon-based transistors for post-silicon computing. Under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049), a multidisciplinary team led by professors from the University of Arizona, University of California Berkeley, University of Rochester, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, and...
This $178,596 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) aims to discover new ternary chalcogenide semiconductor materials for optoelectronic applications. The project leverages computational modeling and experimental synthesis to address the challenge of accessing these promising materials, which have been computationally predicted but remain difficult to synthesize. The collaborative research involves...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $436,721 project grant to Washington State University under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will support research into persistent photoconductivity in titanate semiconductor crystals from June 2021 through May 2024. The Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through advancing knowledge and understanding of major problems in mathematical and physical...
The Regents of the University of Colorado received a $460,657 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) for research titled "IONOELASTOMER HETEROJUNCTIONS AT THE MICRO- AND NANO-SCALE." The three-year award beginning September 1, 2021 will support the University's development of ionoelastomer heterojunctions and investigation of their properties at the micro- and nano- scales. As part of its mission to strengthen the...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $599,999 project grant to the National Academy of Sciences to support research activities under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will fund the design of novel materials with the goal of advancing technologies through March 2022. Key deliverables include utilizing engineering principles to develop materials that can revolutionize future applications in accordance with the program's objective to strengthen the...
Colorado State University was awarded a $490,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The grant supports research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to advance understanding of dynamic speciation and complex reaction pathways to inform the rational synthesis of ternary semiconductor nanoparticles. Funding will allow CSU researchers to gain molecular-level insights that can...