This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $275,000.00 to the University of Maryland, College Park to research energy-efficient skyrmion-based memory devices. The project aims to integrate magneto-ionic and ferroelectric control of two-dimensional (2D) magnets to enable low-voltage manipulation of magnetic skyrmions for potential memory applications. Through this 3-year research effort, the university will investigate...
This Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $250,000 to the University of Texas at Dallas to design and experimentally demonstrate computing systems with extreme energy efficiency. Specifically, the project aims to leverage magnetic skyrmions, which are magnetic quasiparticles, to develop reversible and reservoir computing systems that can significantly reduce the environmental and economic costs of computer energy consumption....
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 $120,000 National Science Foundation Project Grant, funded through the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), supports research at the University of Maryland, College Park to engineer atomically thin magnetic materials for solid-state cryogenic cooling below 1 Kelvin. Over the one-year period from January 2023 to December 2023, the university researchers will apply first-principles simulations to understand magnetism-structure relationships in two-dimensional magnets. They will also employ...
This $360,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) funds a comprehensive theoretical investigation of magnon devices built upon two-dimensional (2D) magnetic materials. The primary objective is to elucidate the mechanisms underlying the generation, propagation, and detection of magnon currents within realistic 2D structures, with the goal of identifying material parameters capable of generating magnon currents comparable to or...
This $342,980 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program will support research at the University of Florida to investigate multiferroic interfaces for controlling magnetic skyrmions. The goal is to develop new materials and interfaces that can enable precise and energy-efficient electrical control of skyrmions, which are nanoscale magnetic patterns with promising applications in neuromorphic computing. The 3-year...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $250,000 to the University of Texas at Austin to design and experimentally demonstrate reversible and reservoir computing systems using magnetic skyrmions. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year award include: Co-designing skyrmion-based reversible logic gates and developing a roadmap for skyrmion reversible computing. This will involve fabricating and...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program award supports theoretical research on antiferromagnets, or materials with no net magnetization, and their potential for use in next-generation non-volatile memory devices. The $240,000 award to Georgetown University will fund activities to: Establish quasiparticle tight-binding models in antiferromagnets to understand electron-disorder interactions. Create new numerical methods to resolve the...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $260,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF SUNY), with a performance period from Sep 15, 2024 to Aug 31, 2027. The project aims to develop energy-efficient nanoelectronics based on CMOS-compatible magnetoelectric transistors. Key objectives include realizing a "magneto-electric transistor" that combines magneto-electrics...
This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems, totaling $250,000, supports collaborative research between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Virginia Commonwealth University under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The grant funds the development of acoustically induced ferromagnetic resonance to assist energy efficient spin torque memory devices. Researchers will work to significantly lower the...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award to Georgetown University is for $275,000 over a 3-year period from November 1, 2024 to October 31, 2027. The project aims to achieve energy-efficient skyrmion-based memory by creating, manipulating, and annihilating skyrmions (topological spin textures) in two-dimensional van der Waals magnets using magneto-ionic and ferroelectric control techniques. The research includes developing a magneto-ionic gate to tailor magnetic properties, implementing ferroelectric/two-dimensional magnet heterojunctions to engineer skyrmion control, and integrating the magneto-ionic and ferroelectric approaches to enhance voltage-controlled skyrmion switching for low-power, non-volatile memory applications. This project will advance the scientific understanding of magnetic skyrmions in low-dimensional materials and contribute to the development of energy-efficient nanoelectronic devices, while also providing training for graduate, undergraduate, and high school students in relevant expertise areas.