This three-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $485,000 to Penn State University to develop new nonlinear optical single crystal materials and an open-source modeling package for classical and quantum light generation applications. Specifically, the University will synthesize and characterize promising new nonlinear optical single crystals identified through theoretical modeling and literature reviews. An...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) Project Grant award of $299,838 to the University of New Mexico (UNM) is funding research to investigate stress-induced birefringence and refractive index changes in glass materials. The goal is to advance the capability of ultrafast laser micromachining techniques to reliably alter material properties and create sub-micron features in glass for fabricating novel optical components like waveguides, waveplates, and...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will provide $402,134 from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027 to support research and development of a novel class of semiconductor nanostructures called non-Hermitian topological photonic crystals. The key products and services to be delivered include: Designing, fabricating, and characterizing the optical properties and optoelectronic device applications of these photonic crystal slabs,...
This $100,972 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Program (CFDA 47.049) supports fundamental research on nonlinear partial differential equations and their applications in fields such as crystal growth, combustion, and game theory. The primary investigator (PI) will study the regularity, large-time behavior, and qualitative properties of solutions to these equations, which have connections to areas like the calculus of...
This $250,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Materials Research (CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences) supports research to design and discover new "heteroanionic" materials containing multiple types of negatively charged anion atoms. The goal is to understand how the atomic-scale structure of these complex materials influences their electronic, magnetic, and optical properties, enabling the development of advanced materials for...
This $563,899 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will fund research at the University of Virginia from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2025. The research aims to advance fundamental understanding of the role and properties of crystal lattices in two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide materials across variable length and time scales. Specifically, the researchers will...
This $299,431 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program will fund a research project at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) to develop experimental and computational techniques for characterizing the dynamic deformation and fracture behavior of polymer matrix composite (PMC) materials. The project aims to enable more accurate simulations of PMC performance under high-rate loading conditions, such as vehicle crashes and...
The National Science Foundation awarded the University of South Carolina a $1,072,092 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to develop new fluoride and oxyfluoride materials with magnetic and optical properties. Over a four-year period from August 2022 to July 2026, the university will apply crystal growth methods to synthesize new classes of fluoride and oxyfluoride compounds containing transition and lanthanide metals. The university's researchers...
This three-year, $566,530 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research at Clemson University focused on synthesizing new materials displaying unusual optical and magnetic properties. Researchers will use high-temperature hydrothermal methods to grow high-quality single crystals of low-dimensional transition metal oxyanions for characterization of their magnetic...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) Project Grant award of $119,174 to Wichita State University supports research to explore thiophosphates as balanced middle-infrared nonlinear optical materials. Key objectives are to employ synthetic methods, achieve balanced nonlinear optical properties, understand electronic structures and bonding, and grow large crystals of these materials. The research aims to advance the understanding of...
This $264,134 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) supports research at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) to grow large single crystals of noncentrosymmetric compounds and study their nonlinear optical properties. The PI and a graduate student will learn techniques to grow centimeter-sized single crystals and analyze the nonlinear optical properties, including coefficients, second-harmonic generation, refractive indices, and laser damage thresholds. The project aims to expand the range of nonlinear optical materials and deepen the understanding of the relationship between crystal structures and properties. This work will be conducted in collaboration with researchers at the University of Houston. The grant term runs from Feb 1, 2025 to Jan 31, 2027.