This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems will support research into developing new 2D ferroelectric nonlinear metasurface holograms with high conversion efficiency but only nanometer thickness. The $249,379 award made to the Missouri University of Science & Technology on September 1, 2022 will fund the design, fabrication, and experimental characterization of 2D ferroelectric holograms to demonstrate the production of...
The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York (RF SUNY), doing business as Stony Brook University, was awarded a $335,156 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support research titled "CAREER: FLAT SINGULAR OPTICS: GENERATION AND DETECTION OF OPTICAL VORTEX BEAMS WITH PLASMONIC METASURFACES IN LINEAR AND NONLINEAR REGIMES" under the NSF's Engineering (ENG) program (CFDA #47.041). The two-year project period, which began on October 1, 2021 and ends...
This three-year $300,097 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research supports research at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University to develop flexible nonlinear plasmonic metasurfaces with multi-resonant enhancement capabilities. The university will elucidate structure-property relationships and determine second and third harmonic generation responses from nonlinear plasmonic metasurfaces. Additionally, the researchers will develop a scalable,...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will provide $402,134 from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027 to support research and development of a novel class of semiconductor nanostructures called non-Hermitian topological photonic crystals. The key products and services to be delivered include: Designing, fabricating, and characterizing the optical properties and optoelectronic device applications of these photonic crystal slabs,...
This Project Grant award of $631,792 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to develop material processes and devices that maximize the ferroelectric performance and endurance of trench capacitors for energy-efficient data storage. The key technical objectives are to: 1) Demonstrate non-planar, hafnia-based devices exhibiting greater than 10^15 switching endurance under back-end-of-line semiconductor processing conditions, and 2) Develop a...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), provides $457,500 to Trustees of Boston University from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025. The funding supports research to develop new classes of photodetectors based on metasurface nanophotonics technology. This aims to enable advanced computational imaging capabilities beyond traditional sensors, such as producing focused...
This two-year, $252,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research will support research into mechanically controlling the electronic properties of two-dimensional ferroelectrics. The grantee, the University of Nebraska, will investigate using mechanical stress and strain as novel methods to deterministically modulate polarization states and related changes in electrical resistance in 2D ferroelectric materials. Researchers will use scanning probe...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $500,000.00 over a 4-year period to Purdue University to develop a novel hybrid thin film platform with unique optical properties for photonic integrated circuits (PICs). The research aims to advance understanding of electro-optical and magneto-optical coupling effects in complex nanoscale hybrid metamaterials, and demonstrate key building blocks for future large-scale PICs including...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $111,990 project grant under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to Stony Brook University for research titled "EAGER: COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: ELECTRICALLY PUMPED MONOLITHIC BI-PHOTON EMITTERS." The award period is from August 1, 2021 to December 31, 2022. The project aims to develop new monolithic bi-photon emitters that can be electrically pumped through engineering research. Stony Brook University will conduct the research,...
This $450,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems, under the NSF Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program, will fund research by Duke University on "Magnetic Resonances in Nonlinear Dielectric Nanostructures: New Light-Matter Interactions and Machine Learning Enhanced Design." The project aims to discover new light-matter interactions originating from the effect of magnetic field enhancement in low-loss...