Project Grant 2428546
- 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...
- 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 $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...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a three-year $435,000 Project Grant to the University of California, Berkeley under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to explore correlated electron states in single-layer field-effect transistors. Through October 2022 to September 2025, the university will characterize the local electronic structure of highly correlated two-dimensional materials using a combination of gate-tunable field effect transistors and scanning...
- 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 $299,998 federal Project Grant award is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. The grant supports a collaborative research project at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) to investigate emergent correlated-electron phenomena and phases within a family of highly reproducible two-dimensional semiconductor materials, known as rhombohedral graphene multilayers. The key objectives are to establish this unique...
- 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 Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), funds research to investigate collective quantum behavior of electrons at extremely low density. The $543,476 award to Montana State University is for a 3-year project from August 2024 to July 2027. Key objectives include studying the transition between metallic/superconducting and insulating/non-superconducting states in quasi-one-dimensional...
- 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 $1.3 million National Science Foundation project grant supports optical study of electron correlation in graphene-based moiré superlattices at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology through July 2026. The grant advances understanding of carbon-based materials under the NSF Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). Key deliverables include the first infrared spectroscopy data on several graphene moiré superlattices, revealing critical energy scales for electron...
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 quantum electronics and optoelectronics. The research team, led by the Regents of the University of California at Riverside, will work to understand the optical and electrical properties of these moiré superlattice materials using advanced microscopy and optical techniques. The project will also involve training the next generation of scientists and engineers through student participation, lab tours, and educational outreach activities.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $494.6k | 7/18/25 |