Project Grant 2201292
Award Date
8/1/22
Completion Date
7/31/25
Dollars Obligated
$410K
Federal Agency
Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems
Federal Grant Program
47.041
Assistance Type
Project Grant
Place of Performance
Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
Similar Awards
This $419,379 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to develop innovative gallium nitride (GaN)-based terahertz (THz) photoconductive emitters with an optical-to-THz energy conversion efficiency approaching or exceeding 100%. The research project will focus on three core areas: (1) designing GaN photoconductive switches with high breakdown electrical fields, (2) investigating ultrafast carrier dynamics and THz generation in...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award of $379,921 to the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska will support research and development of semiconductor-based terahertz (THz) traveling wave amplifiers for monolithic integration. The goal is to create high-gain THz amplifier topologies in the 0.1 to 3 THz range by exploiting the synchronous interaction between moving charged particles and electromagnetic waves in semiconductor materials. The...
This National Science Foundation project grant of $398,671 will fund research at Duke University from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2025 under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The research aims to advance understanding of metal-nanomaterial interfaces in transistors by addressing longstanding scientific questions about how electrical current is controlled at the nanoscale. Specifically, the project will study contact gating effects and ambient air exposure impacts on...
This $260,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports the development of a new class of energy-efficient electronics based on magneto-electric transistors. The key technical objectives include designing and fabricating magneto-electric transistors using transition-metal dichalcogenide materials, developing associated microelectronic circuits for energy-efficient computing, and establishing scalable...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a Project Grant in the amount of $400,000 to Brown University to develop new experimental techniques for studying charge transport dynamics in semiconductor and thin film materials. Specifically, the research aims to establish "non-local THz nanoscopy" methods that leverage terahertz (THz) spectroscopy to provide high spatial and temporal resolution characterization of charge carrier dynamics in materials such as gallium nitride and...
This $390,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports the development of new technologies that utilize the terahertz (THz) frequency range to enable high-speed, highly directive wireless data transmission with dynamic obstacle avoidance capabilities. The primary goals of the project are to develop two key devices - an amplitude modulator and a spatial light modulator - that will allow for the creation of efficient and...
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 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $249,969 to the University of Delaware to enhance the performance of gallium nitride (GaN)-on-silicon high electron mobility transistor technology for high frequency and high power electronics applications. The key research activities aim to develop a novel self-aligned T-shaped gate fabrication process to improve the radio frequency and power performance of GaN-on-silicon devices,...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $244,830 to Tufts University to conduct collaborative research on fundamental challenges in extremely wideband, highly directional channels for future terahertz-enabled wireless networks. The key objectives are to design hybrid beamforming algorithms for wideband multicarrier systems, investigate joint user association with base stations and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) has awarded a $159,986 Project Grant to Wichita State University to study a novel class of thermal diodes based on capillary filling and emptying in heterogeneous nanostructures. The primary objectives are to examine the hypothesis that controlling capillary-driven thermal transport can enable highly efficient (rectification ratio >100) nanoscale thermal diodes for advanced thermal management, energy harvesting, and...