This two-year, $319,306 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will support theoretical research and educational outreach activities related to light-driven quantum materials. The awardee, Kennesaw State University Research And Service Foundation, Inc., will investigate photon-dressed electron dynamics and non-equilibrium phases in periodically driven systems using techniques developed under the award. Specifically, the researchers...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $264,000 awarded on July 1, 2022 will fund research into the physical properties of layered materials at Louisiana State University through June 30, 2025. As part of the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), this award will support investigation into the interaction of electromagnetic waves with layered media to guide the design of optoelectronic devices. Key objectives include establishing connections between layering methods...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $1,040,000 Project Grant to the Georgia Institute of Technology Research Corporation to support research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program. Over a three-year period ending August 2025, the grantee will develop novel synthetic approaches to two-dimensional nanosheets and study the assembly and properties of nanosheet stacks. Specifically, the grantee will focus on synthesizing functionalized MXenes and metal oxide nanosheets, assembling...
This $299,998 federal Project Grant award is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. The grant supports a collaborative research project at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) to investigate emergent correlated-electron phenomena and phases within a family of highly reproducible two-dimensional semiconductor materials, known as rhombohedral graphene multilayers. The key objectives are to establish this unique...
This five-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research, totaling $239,749, supports theoretical and computational research as well as educational efforts related to emerging layered materials. Specifically, the awardee, Stanford University, will utilize large-scale simulations and develop new methods to study the electronic and optical properties of vertically stacked two-dimensional materials with moiré patterns. This includes calculating effective...
This $318,775 National Science Foundation project grant supports theoretical and computational research and education activities at Lehigh University from May 2022 through April 2025. The award is part of the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to advance scientific knowledge and understanding in these fields. Specifically, the principal investigator and their team will develop advanced numerical techniques to model the properties of two-dimensional quantum...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 5-year, $208,120 CAREER (Faculty Early Career Development) Project Grant to Carnegie Mellon University under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program. The project aims to explore and investigate the unique light-matter interaction and emerging properties in individual and stacked atomically thin semiconductors, with a focus on many-body physics critical for exciton properties. The research will employ advanced...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $1,198,092 will support research at Northwestern University from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2025 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The university will design photonic lattices and multilayer structures that can confine light in small spaces near metal nanostructures and support electrically-driven excitation. Researchers will fabricate new architectures based on multilayer nanoparticle arrays and realize...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) project grant, funded under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), aims to leverage novel light-matter interactions to minimize scattering and resistance in two-dimensional semiconductor materials. The $283,100 award, effective August 1, 2025 through July 31, 2030, supports research to suppress charge carrier-defect scattering through strong light-electronic excitation coupling, and to accelerate exciton and charge transport across...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports research on the development of novel two-dimensional (2D) heterobilayer materials through a bottom-up chemical vapor deposition approach. The $363,799 award to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF SUNY) aims to enable the fabrication of 2D heterobilayers with controlled lattice strain and interfaces, and to study their optical...
This $388,500 National Science Foundation project grant supports research into the electronic properties of two-dimensional systems subjected to low-energy light excitation at Georgia State University from August 2022 to July 2025. The award is part of NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through advancing knowledge in these fields.
Specifically, the university will experimentally examine the magnetoelectronic response of semiconductor heterostructures and two-dimensional atomic layered materials including monolayer, bilayer and twisted bilayer graphene, as well as hexagonal boron nitride, under steady-state low-energy photoexcitation. Researchers will fabricate layered semiconductor devices and 2D crystals using electron beam lithography and metallization to study properties in the presence of magnetic fields and microwave, millimeter-wave or terahertz radiation. Outreach to local high schools is also planned to expose students to nanoscience. The findings could have applications in electronics, photonics and wireless communications.