This $244,955 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports theoretical and computational research to develop advanced computational tools and use them for describing the dynamical behavior of magnetic molecules connected to external electrodes and manipulated by magnetic fields. The research aims to provide a balance between computational efficiency and physical accuracy in simulating such open...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $395,192 Project Grant to Wayne State University from the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant supports research to synthesize and characterize antiferromagnetic materials for developing novel hybrid magnonic functionalities. The project team will fabricate thin film heterostructures composed of antiferromagnetic oxides like iron, chromium, and nickel, and engineer interactions between their high-frequency magnetic...
This $1,600,000 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will support the development of a new type of combinatorial memory and logic devices using magnetic spin waves on a silicon platform. The project, led by researchers at the University of California - Riverside, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and their collaborators, aims to create magnonic combinatorial devices that can store more information and process data...
This NSF-funded project grant, awarded through the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), is focused on developing novel synthesis techniques for thin film magnetic oxides to enable electric and magnetic field tunable high frequency devices. The $390,001 award to Oakland University aims to engineer the magnetic properties of ferrite and garnet films through combinatorial substrate epitaxy in order to eliminate the need for high external magnetic fields and power requirements. The key...
This $359,500 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of scalable three-terminal memory devices based on silicon-compatible antiferromagnetic materials at Northwestern University from June 2022 through May 2025. The university aims to design, fabricate, and characterize nonvolatile memory devices utilizing conductive antiferromagnetic materials like Mn3Sn, Mn3Ga, and IrMn3 that can be sputter deposited on silicon substrates. The project will demonstrate electrical read...
This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems, totaling $250,000, supports collaborative research between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Virginia Commonwealth University under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The grant funds the development of acoustically induced ferromagnetic resonance to assist energy efficient spin torque memory devices. Researchers will work to significantly lower the...
This $499,944 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to develop a new type of high-resolution and high-sensitivity magnetic field microscope. The grant supports the advancement of rare-earth-doped magnetic nanoparticles and the integration of dual-comb microscopy techniques to create a breakthrough technology for cellular-level studies of magnetic fields in biology and precise mapping of magnetic patterns in integrated circuits....
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences) provides $260,000 to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF SUNY) to develop energy-efficient nanoelectronics based on CMOS-compatible magnetoelectric transistors. The project aims to create a new type of magneto-electric transistor that combines the advantages of magneto-electrics and two-dimensional semiconductor materials to enable high-speed, low-power...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $591,720 Project Grant under its Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to support research on the emergent spin textures and dynamics of two-dimensional (2D) magnetic materials. The project aims to study the nanoscale magnetic patterns and low-energy spin dynamics in 2D magnets using advanced x-ray and optical spectroscopy techniques, coupled with theoretical modeling. This...
The $120,000 National Science Foundation Project Grant, funded through the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), supports research at the University of Maryland, College Park to engineer atomically thin magnetic materials for solid-state cryogenic cooling below 1 Kelvin. Over the one-year period from January 2023 to December 2023, the university researchers will apply first-principles simulations to understand magnetism-structure relationships in two-dimensional magnets. They will also employ...