The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $490,000 Project Grant to Jackson State University (JSU) for the "JSU-UCSB Partnership for Research and Education in Materials Science" program. This 6-year collaborative research and education program, with a start date of September 1, 2024, will support the development of new quantum and biomimetic hierarchical nanomaterials with applications in areas such as optoelectronics, sensing, communication, aerospace, and environmental...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1,800,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to The Trustees of Princeton University to develop new quantum sensing tools for studying physical phenomena, structure, and composition of materials. The project, titled "QUSEC-TAQS: Nanoscale Covariance Magnetometry with Diamond Quantum Sensors," aims to use nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamond as a large-scale quantum sensing platform to...
This Project Grant award of $1,634,839 from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) aims to revolutionize live-cell imaging through the development of nanodiamond quantum sensors. The project, titled "QUSEC-TAQS: Nanodiamond Quantum Sensing for Four-Dimensional Live-Cell Imaging," will integrate nanodiamond quantum sensors with advanced light-sheet microscopy techniques to capture unprecedented 4D (3D spatial and temporal) insights...
The National Science Foundation awarded Duke University a $299,668 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop a robust, scalable process for creating diamond nitrogen-vacancy center quantum bits. This Early-Concept Grant for Exploratory Research will support innovative research demonstrating a new approach using diamond growth techniques coupled with carbon nanotube electron beam irradiation to create the defects needed for quantum bit implementation. The goal is to...
This $197,780 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports the development of a novel quantum magnetometer sensor based on an organic chromophore coupled with a mechanical resonator. The research aims to create an ultra-sensitive and highly efficient magnetometer sensor that can detect variations in magnetic fields through the quantum emission of a single chromophore. This work has potential applications in fields such as robotics,...
This Project Grant award, totaling $500,000.00, was jointly funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering, Directorate for Mathematics and Physical Science, and the Office of Strategic Initiatives, as well as the Advancing Informal STEM Learning program (CFDA 47.076 STEM Education). The award aims to elevate Florida A&M University (FAMU), a leading Historically Black College and University, to the forefront of Quantum Information Science and Engineering (QISE)...
This two-year, $231,696 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate (CFDA 47.049) will support research exploring electric field sensing with nitrogen vacancy centers in diamond and chemical tuning of the diamond host material. Specifically, the principal investigator and research team at San Jose State University will investigate new routes for chemically activating the surface of nanoscale diamond particles to generate covalent bonds...
This $175,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University's "Catalyst Project" to broaden participation in quantum information science and engineering. The University will utilize culturally relevant pedagogy and experiential learning activities combined with industry partnerships from IBM, Google, and local start-ups to examine approaches for increasing...
This $450,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA #47.049) program supports research and development of new quantum sensors to study open quantum systems. The project at The Washington University in St. Louis aims to leverage quantum entanglement to characterize the role of memory in quantum environments, develop quantum-entanglement-enhanced metrology techniques, and investigate the transition between quantum and classical...
This Project Grant award of $250,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports the development of a platform for exploiting quantum entanglement to enable quantum advantage in the measurement of molecular and solid-state systems. The project, titled "Distributed-Entanglement Quantum Sensing of Chemical Properties (DQS-CP) - The Emergence of Practical Applications for Quantum Information", aims to realize performance beyond the...