Project Grant 2324175

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $200,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Georgia Tech) for the "Collaborative Research: DMREF: Accelerated Design, Discovery, and Deployment of Electronic Phase Transitions (ADEPT)" project.

The goal of the ADEPT project is to implement an accelerated discovery and co-design engine to efficiently deploy insulator-metal transition (IMT) materials for future microelectronic and wireless communication technologies. The research team aims to develop new computational approaches that integrate computational data with high-throughput materials synthesis and characterization data to overcome key challenges in materials discovery, data analytics, and integrated device performance. The expected outcomes include new classes of IMT materials, open-access databases, theories of IMT behavior, novel thin film synthesis methods, contactless characterization techniques, and adaptive learning methods for co-designed materials and devices. This award reflects NSF's mission and has been deemed worthy of support through the Foundation's merit review process. No subawards are planned for this $200,000 grant project, which will be performed at Georgia Tech's facilities in Atlanta, GA and run from October 1, 2023 through September 30, 2027.