Project Grant 2428545
- This federal Project Grant award for $494,622, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports a collaborative research project to investigate correlated many-body physics in multilayer semiconducting moiré superlattices. The project aims to explore how stacking atomically thin semiconductor layers with a slight twist can create new quantum states with enhanced electron interactions, potentially enabling advances in...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $208,120.00 to Carnegie Mellon University to explore the unique light-matter interaction and emerging properties in individual and stacked atomically thin semiconductors. The key objectives are to: 1) investigate the excitonic physics and many-body effects in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) using advanced optical spectroscopy techniques, and...
- This Project Grant award of $416,387 from the National Science Foundation's (CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences) program supports a collaborative research project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to investigate emergent phenomena and novel correlated phases of matter in a unique family of crystalline 2D semiconductor materials. The project aims to leverage the high material quality, electric gate tunability, and strongly interacting electrons within highly...
- This $238,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports research, education, and outreach activities focused on understanding the fundamental role of the coupling between electrons and lattice vibrations in materials. The project aims to develop advanced computational approaches to reveal the impact of electron-lattice interactions in complex, interacting-electron systems and explain phenomena observed in...
- 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...
- This $120,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research to develop new mathematical tools for analyzing the electronic and physical properties of novel twisted two-dimensional semiconductor and graphene materials. The project aims to advance the semiclassical analysis of matrix-valued Schrödinger operators in these systems, which exhibit rich spectral and topological features, particularly at small...
- This $260,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research at Harvard University on interacting topological bands in moire superlattices. The principal investigator aims to leverage recent advances in engineered moire materials to explore connections between the microscopic properties of individual electrons and the macroscopic behavior of interacting electron systems. The research seeks to establish...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $554,000.00 to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York to develop a new terahertz-based spectroscopy technique for studying unusual quantum behaviors in moire materials. The research aims to create a tool capable of closely examining the low-energy properties of these advanced layered materials, which could enable future breakthroughs in...
- This Project Grant award of $300,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program will fund research and education focused on the study of novel materials with strong interactions between particles. The research aims to develop new theoretical tools to better understand and predict the unusual behaviors of strongly interacting metals, which exhibit phenomena like high-temperature superconductivity that challenge current theories....
- This $1,065,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will support collaborative research by the University of Pennsylvania, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Northeastern University to develop novel quantum materials through deep learning-guided "twistronics". The researchers will use computer-aided deep learning models and theoretical tools to predict and guide the self-assembly of two-dimensional...
This $493,231.00 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (CFDA 47.049) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program supports collaborative research to investigate correlated many-body physics in multilayer semiconducting moiré superlattices. The award aims to explore how different ways of stacking semiconductor layers and controlling electron flows can create new states of quantum matter, with potential applications in quantum electronics and optoelectronics. The project, led by Carnegie Mellon University, brings together experts in materials science, optics, and nanoscale electrical characterization to advance the fundamental understanding of strongly interacting electron systems. The research also includes educational and workforce development components, engaging students from high school to graduate levels in laboratory tours, curriculum development, and hands-on research experiences. The project has an award period from August 1, 2025, to July 31, 2028.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $493.2k | 7/18/25 |