This National Science Foundation award provides $249,901 in funding to the University of Massachusetts Lowell under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) from September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2025. The funding supports fundamental research on consistent treatment of boundaries and interfaces in metamaterials. A multi-disciplinary team will perform theoretical and computational analysis of transition layers and use inverse design principles to create devices that control propagation of...
This $135,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports collaborative research to develop advanced wireless communications technologies using self-accelerating electromagnetic beams. The research aims to enable wireless data transmission at ultra-high frequencies above 100 GHz, which will be crucial for future high-bandwidth mobile networks. Key objectives include: Establishing...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program, awarded to the Regents of the University of Michigan, provides $600,000 in funding from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2027. The award aims to support research and development of a novel approach to metamaterials engineering and manufacturing for emerging optoelectronics applications. The project involves a multi-disciplinary effort to develop a combined computational-experimental toolkit for...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $750,000 Project Grant under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) to the University of Florida on December 15, 2022. The grant will support the development of energy-efficient metamaterials for sustainable electronics through November 30, 2023. Specifically, the University of Florida will lead a collaborative effort to design sustainable metamaterials, investigate their scalable manufacturing processes, and implement an...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems has awarded a $343,324 Project Grant to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The grant will fund research to develop "Perfect Electromagnetic Teleporting Metasurfaces" - a new class of conformal metasurface devices capable of routing electromagnetic energy around building corners to enhance 5G/6G...
Northeastern University was awarded a $500,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems. The grant is part of the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to support the research project "CAREER: GIANT TUNABILITY THROUGH PIEZOELECTRIC RESONANT ACOUSTIC METAMATERIALS FOR RADIO FREQUENCY ADAPTIVE INTEGRATED ELECTRONICS" being conducted from February 2021 through January 2026. Under this award, Northeastern University...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $330,000 Project Grant to Northeastern University under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program. The grant's objective is to develop high-temperature, highly efficient near-to-mid-infrared nanowire detectors through the integration of metamaterials. Specifically, the research aims to: Create a superconducting metamaterial capable of reaching the superconducting depairing limit at high temperatures, using optimized high critical temperature type-II...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $555,796.00 to the University of Toledo to conduct research on developing novel microplasma technologies for highly compact and versatile radio frequency (RF) electronics. The 5-year project aims to: Develop theoretical and modeling frameworks for high-frequency microplasmas Investigate a closed-loop microplasma monitoring and control system Realize stable microplasmas with unprecedented...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) provides $334,027 to Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University from February 2021 through January 2024. The funding supports research into self-adaptive electromechanical metamaterials under the NSF's Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program. The goal of this program is to improve engineering research and education to foster innovation and strengthen the national economy. Specifically, the award will allow research into...
This $545,961 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to revolutionize the field of microwave circuit design by developing an advanced inverse design (InvDes) framework. The project, conducted by the University of California, Berkeley, seeks to create a systematic approach for the inverse design of planar microwave and millimeter wave devices, including filters, splitters, baluns, and antennas. The framework will leverage...