This $279,854 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will support research at The Ohio State University to develop new spintronic material platforms for energy-efficient memory and computing applications. The investigators will focus on heterostructures consisting of ultrathin ferrimagnetic insulator films and adjacent metallic layers. They will grow and characterize high-quality bilayer films to optimize properties for applications by...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will fund research to investigate new materials and their interfaces to enable efficient electric-field control of magnetic skyrmions. The goal is to develop more energy-efficient, brain-inspired computing systems that can support advanced artificial intelligence and data processing capabilities. The $342,980 award to the University of Florida will run from May 1, 2025...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $651,300 supports research at Brown University from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2025 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant funds experimental research and education to advance understanding of magnetic skyrmions and their applications in spintronics. Principal Investigator will utilize advanced imaging and measurement techniques to study static and dynamic properties of magnetic skyrmions in multilayers,...
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...
This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports a collaborative research effort between the University of Wyoming and Colorado State University to explore the novel magnetic properties of two-dimensional van der Waals magnets. The $232,786 award, effective August 1, 2024 through July 31, 2027, aims to investigate the unconventional magnetic domains and metastable magnetic phase...
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...
This $672,156 award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports a project by researchers at William Marsh Rice University to study the spin and lattice properties of two-dimensional magnetic materials. The goal is to gain a fundamental understanding of the charge, spin, and lattice interactions in these materials, which have potential applications in energy-efficient spintronic devices. The project leverages the university's...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $472,826 Project Grant to the University of Texas at Austin under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to conduct research on tailoring and probing the electronic and magnetic structures of engineered magnetic topological insulators. The three-year award beginning September 1, 2022 will support controlling the layer-by-layer formation of magnetic topological insulator and magnetic topological insulator/topological insulator...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $250,000 to the University of Texas at Austin to design and experimentally demonstrate reversible and reservoir computing systems using magnetic skyrmions. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year award include: Co-designing skyrmion-based reversible logic gates and developing a roadmap for skyrmion reversible computing. This will involve fabricating and...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Program (CFDA 47.049) will provide $245,906 to the University of Texas at Austin to conduct research on the "Nonequilibrium Dynamics of Spin-Correlated Excitons in Van der Waals Magnets." The research aims to gain a profound understanding of spin-correlated excitons in semiconducting van der Waals magnets, including their interactions with low-energy collective modes and how exciton...