This $318,712 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research at the University of Texas at Austin to develop new magnetic bilayer materials for spintronic applications. The investigators will grow and characterize ultrathin films of ferrimagnetic insulators and adjacent metallic layers to optimize their properties for memory and computing devices. Specifically, the team aims to establish structure-property...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049) will support research to explore a new class of materials for energy-efficient data processing and storage by harnessing the spin of electrons rather than their electric charge. The $292,836 award to Brown University will enable the research team to systematically investigate the generation of out-of-plane spin-polarized currents in anisotropic oxide thin...
The Ohio State University received a three-year $405,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041). The award will support research into gate-tunable spin devices based on spin-orbitronic engineering in two-dimensional metal monochalcogenides. Specifically, The Ohio State University Office of Sponsored Programs will leverage the funding to conduct innovation and...
This $532,567 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports theoretical research and educational activities at the University of Delaware aimed at understanding quantum magnetic materials and advancing spintronics. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year award include: Developing new theoretical methods and open-source software to model spin transport and quantum effects in magnetic...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $342,980 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the University of Florida (UF) to investigate new materials and their interface for precise and energy-efficient control of magnetic skyrmions. The goal is to enable the development of more efficient, brain-inspired computing systems for advanced data processing and artificial intelligence applications. The 3-year project will explore 2D ferroelectrics...
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 Project Grant award of $360,000.00 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program, with a period of performance from May 1, 2025 to April 30, 2028, aims to develop new materials and devices for high-density magnetic random-access memory (MRAM). The project, led by Rutgers, The State University, will focus on creating wafer-scale epitaxial van der Waals spin heterostructures that can enable more efficient switching in MRAM devices. This research seeks...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $563,690 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska for the project "HETEROMOLECULAR INTERFACE DESIGN FOR BETTER MULTIFERROIC MOLECULAR SPINTRONICS". The goal of this research is to develop a highly stable, energy-efficient molecular-based memory device that can potentially address the growing need for computer memory while reducing energy...
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 $413,851 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports research by Case Western Reserve University to develop magnetic nanostructures for addressing and coupling nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center spin qubits. The goal is to understand how to engineer magnetic materials and structures to provide strong, local, and controllable magnetic fields for manipulating NV center...