This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, supports theoretical research on charge and heat transport in quantum electronic systems, focusing on novel two-dimensional materials, nanostructures, and superconducting devices. The $350,000 award, effective June 1, 2025 through May 31, 2028, aims to investigate nonreciprocal transport phenomena, including the superconducting diode effect and...
The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded a $384,878 project grant to the University of Chicago to support research exploring mid-infrared colloidal quantum dot light emitting diodes. The objectives of the research are to synthesize novel bright mid-infrared semiconductor quantum dots and incorporate them into mid-infrared LEDs. If successful, a combination of inorganic quantum dot LEDs and detectors made through solution processing and...
This is a 5-year, $235,316 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. The grant supports research by the University of Michigan to better understand how colloidal quantum dot solids respond to mechanical strain and deformation. The project aims to reveal the underlying chemical, structural, and optoelectronic mechanisms by which the interaction between quantum dots and conjugated polymers impacts the...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $476,170 Project Grant under its Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. The grant supports the development of a new class of tunable materials consisting of colloidal quantum dots with independently controlled size, shape, and composition. Researchers will investigate the fundamental thermodynamics and kinetics governing the synthesis and growth of these novel linear quantum dot...
This $301,595 federal project grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. The award supports fundamental research to develop a new class of two-dimensional quantum emitters based on in-plane transition metal dichalcogenide quantum dots embedded within monolayer sheets. The work encompasses studies to tune the size, shape, density and uniformity of the quantum dots and their...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $400,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for a collaborative research project on "Designing Coherence and Entanglement in Perovskite Quantum Dot Assemblies." This 4-year project aims to understand how perovskite quantum dots can be engineered to enable efficient and coherent transport of information and energy in a wave-like manner. The...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $700,000 from August 2024 to July 2027 to The Leland Stanford Junior University for research on quantum phenomena in ultrafast optical circuits. The primary aims are to develop deeper insights into the transition regime where quantum effects become significant as optical circuits are miniaturized, including both theoretical and experimental components. This work...
This federal Project Grant award, made by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports research on hybrid solid-state quantum systems that combine semiconductor spin qubits and superconducting circuits. The $799,123 award to the University of Rhode Island, with a sub-award to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, aims to advance the state of quantum information science and engineering. The key products or services to be...
This Project Grant award of $188,815 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports research at Yale University aimed at experimentally exploring the physics of quasicrystalline quantum materials. The project will use atomic physics techniques to build and probe an experimental analogue of a quasicrystalline material with unusual symmetries, observing the behavior of atoms moving around a dynamically reconfigurable and aperiodic...
This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports research to develop a robust and scalable quantum networking platform. The award totaling $134,382 will be used by the research team at the University of Michigan to create quantum nodes using ytterbium (Yb) atoms trapped in optical tweezer arrays and nanophotonic cavities. The goal is to distribute quantum information between these nodes using...