This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences) provides $380,000 to The Regents of the University of California, Berkeley to develop advanced radio frequency (RF) transceiver circuits and amplifiers that can rapidly tune across wide frequency bands between 7-24 GHz. The goal is to enable resilient broadband wireless connectivity by creating agile radio systems capable of dynamically accessing new spectrum bands as they become...
This National Science Foundation project grant of $392,690 will fund research at the University of California, Los Angeles from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025. The grant is part of NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), which supports investigator-initiated research and education in all areas of computing, communications, and information science and engineering. Specifically, the university researchers will investigate using machine learning...
This $600,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will fund the development of a global spectrum observatory through mobile spectrum sensing kits and supporting software ecosystem. Specifically, the University of California, San Diego will receive funding from August 15, 2022 to July 31, 2025 to design, implement, deploy and make available low-cost kits that allow for spectrum sensing and measurement across diverse, wide...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems Project Grant, awarded under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), provides $250,000 in funding to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2026. The project aims to develop novel transceiver architectures, circuit blocks, design techniques, and communication strategies to enable energy-efficient millimeter wave wireless networks. The research effort...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, funded under CFDA Program 47.041 Engineering, provides $514,633 to The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) from October 15, 2024 to September 30, 2027. The goal of the project is to develop scalable 240-GHz transmitter and receiver arrays based on new application-specific array architectures, innovative silicon-based beamformers, high-performance indium phosphide (InP) power amplifiers and low noise amplifiers, and advanced...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems, under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), provides $1,500,000 to the University of Central Florida (UCF) to develop an energy- and spectrum-efficient millimeter-wave (mmW) transmitter array system for next-generation wireless communications. The key objectives are to: 1) Utilize heterogeneous integration and advanced packaging to embed high-power wide-bandgap...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering Directorate ($400,000) supports the development of smart radio environments using reconfigurable intelligent surfaces to improve millimeter-wave communications. Specifically, the University of Utah will create a modular radio hardware prototype capable of precise phase control at millimeter-wave frequencies. They will also develop advanced signal processing algorithms for practical reconfigurable intelligent surface-aided...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $490,000 project grant to the University of Southern California from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2024 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant funds research to study the impact of user environment and artificial surfaces on wireless communications operating above 100 GHz. The University of Southern California will conduct investigator-initiated research at its Los Angeles campus location to...
The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) was awarded a $600,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Computer and Network Systems under the CFDA 47.070 Computer and Information Science and Engineering program. The objective of this 4-year research project is to develop scalable metasurface array technologies for expanding millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication and sensing capabilities. Specifically, the research team will design new beam synthesis models...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $400,000 over 3 years to the University of California, Berkeley to develop novel intelligent large-scale multi-antenna array architectures operating at 140 GHz. The key products and services to be delivered include: Analytical and behavioral modeling of non-idealities in large scalable antenna arrays Design of reconfigurable D-band (140 GHz) front-ends with performance tuning...