This Project Grant award, valued at $292,836 and funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, will support research at Brown University to explore a new class of materials for energy-efficient data processing and storage. The project aims to design oxide crystals with carefully tuned symmetries, enabling the generation of spin currents oriented perpendicular to the film plane. This will help address challenges in managing electron...
This $300,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program will support research and infrastructure development at Brown University to control and visualize electron interactions in atomically-thin materials. The key objectives are to: 1) precisely control the density of electronic states in 2D systems through molecular engineering, and 2) detect local quantum phases in 2D materials at the molecular level using scanning tunneling...
This NSF Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) Project Grant award of $300,000 to Brown University will support a research infrastructure improvement project focused on developing an experimental method to directly probe the configuration of electron spins in 2D materials like multilayer graphene.
The key objectives are to: 1) establish a user program located in Rhode Island to provide research and intern opportunities for students, thereby training the state's quantum workforce, and 2)...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $651,300 supports research at Brown University from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2025 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant funds experimental research and education to advance understanding of magnetic skyrmions and their applications in spintronics. Principal Investigator will utilize advanced imaging and measurement techniques to study static and dynamic properties of magnetic skyrmions in multilayers,...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $591,720 Project Grant under its Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to support research on the emergent spin textures and dynamics of two-dimensional (2D) magnetic materials. The project aims to study the nanoscale magnetic patterns and low-energy spin dynamics in 2D magnets using advanced x-ray and optical spectroscopy techniques, coupled with theoretical modeling. This...
The National Science Foundation is providing a $299,837 RII TRACK-4 project grant to Brown University under the NSF Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program. The goal of this 2-year project is to experimentally synthesize and characterize a new class of ferroelectric Rashba semiconductor materials that can efficiently control and manipulate electron spins for low-power spintronic computing applications. The researchers will utilize Cornell University's state-of-the-art thin film synthesis...
Brown University was awarded a $650,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) for work on the project "CAREER: FINITE TEMPERATURE ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE METHODS FOR PREDICTING MATERIAL PHASE DIAGRAMS" from May 1, 2021 to April 30, 2026.
Under this award, Brown University will develop and apply finite temperature electronic structure methods to predict material phase diagrams and enhance understanding of major...
Brown University was awarded a three-year, $480,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the federal Mathematical and Physical Sciences grant program (CFDA 47.049) to support research titled "Emergent Opto-Mechanical and Electro-Mechanical Coupled Behavior of Halide Perovskites." The funding period is from June 1, 2021 to May 31, 2024. Under this award, Brown University researchers will investigate the opto-mechanical and electro-mechanical coupling behavior of...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research provides $225,904 to Brown University under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) for collaborative research on rare earth materials under extreme conditions from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2026.
The award supports experimental and computational research to determine the thermodynamic and structural properties of refractory rare earth ceramic materials at high temperature and pressure....
The National Science Foundation awarded Brown University a $400,000 project grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support collaborative terahertz spectroscopy of clathrates from June 15, 2021 to May 31, 2024. Brown University will utilize the funding to conduct research on terahertz spectroscopy techniques to analyze gas hydrate clathrates. As part of the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program's goals to strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise...