Project Grant 2343607
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $250,000 to the University of Texas at Austin to design and experimentally demonstrate reversible and reservoir computing systems using magnetic skyrmions. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year award include: Co-designing skyrmion-based reversible logic gates and developing a roadmap for skyrmion reversible computing. This will involve fabricating and...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $275,000.00 to the University of Maryland, College Park to research energy-efficient skyrmion-based memory devices. The project aims to integrate magneto-ionic and ferroelectric control of two-dimensional (2D) magnets to enable low-voltage manipulation of magnetic skyrmions for potential memory applications. Through this 3-year research effort, the university will investigate...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award to Georgetown University is for $275,000 over a 3-year period from November 1, 2024 to October 31, 2027. The project aims to achieve energy-efficient skyrmion-based memory by creating, manipulating, and annihilating skyrmions (topological spin textures) in two-dimensional van der Waals magnets using magneto-ionic and ferroelectric control techniques. The research includes developing a magneto-ionic gate to...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $342,980 to the University of Florida to investigate new materials and interfaces for controlling magnetic skyrmions. The goal is to enable more efficient and powerful neuromorphic computing systems inspired by the human brain. The project will explore the potential of ferroelectric/ferromagnet interfaces to facilitate precise and energy-efficient control of these...
- This Project Grant award of $360,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) aims to revolutionize computer memory by developing new materials and devices for high-density magnetic random-access memory (MRAM). The project will address critical challenges in material development and device fabrication for wafer-scale epitaxial van der Waals spin heterostructures, which have the potential to surpass the limitations of conventional...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $250,000 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of Arizona for the period of June 1, 2024 to May 31, 2027. The project, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: SPINTRONICS ENABLED STOCHASTIC SPIKING NEURAL NETWORKS WITH TEMPORAL INFORMATION ENCODING," aims to develop novel neuromorphic computing architectures that leverage the temporal information encoding capabilities of stochastic magnetic devices. The...
- This $400,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will support the development of energy-efficient quantum materials-based magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) for unconventional computing applications. The international, multi-institutional research team from the University of Minnesota, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, and Indian Institute of Technology Delhi will conduct theoretical research, materials synthesis, and advanced...
- 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 National Science Foundation Project Grant of $651,300 supports research at Brown University from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2025 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant funds experimental research and education to advance understanding of magnetic skyrmions and their applications in spintronics. Principal Investigator will utilize advanced imaging and measurement techniques to study static and dynamic properties of magnetic skyrmions in multilayers,...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $405,000 Project Grant to the University of California Irvine under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) for the period July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2025. The award will support research to improve the energy efficiency of spin torque nano-oscillators for neuromorphic signal processing applications. Key activities include demonstrating a new method for microwave signal generation using current induced torques in ferromagnetic metals, which is...
This Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $250,000 to the University of Texas at Dallas to design and experimentally demonstrate computing systems with extreme energy efficiency. Specifically, the project aims to leverage magnetic skyrmions, which are magnetic quasiparticles, to develop reversible and reservoir computing systems that can significantly reduce the environmental and economic costs of computer energy consumption. The work includes co-designing and fabricating skyrmion-based reversible and reservoir computers, advancing the science of thin film magnetism, improving the understanding of magnetic nanostructure dynamics, and developing new device designs and fabrication methods. The project runs from March 2024 through February 2027 and is expected to have beneficial impacts on workforce development through undergraduate research and graduate student training.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $250.0k | 3/14/24 |