The University of South Florida was awarded a three-year, $480,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation to study spin photocurrent in 2D hybrid organic-inorganic perovskite multiple quantum wells from July 2021 through June 2024. The grant is part of the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these scientific fields and strengthen the national scientific enterprise through increasing knowledge and enhancing understanding...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) award under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program provides $564,909 to Florida State University (FSU) to research charge-spin conversions and nonreciprocal transport in chiral materials. The project aims to explore new methods for generating, controlling, and detecting polarized spins in semiconductors by exploiting electron motion in chiral structures. Key focus areas include elucidating the physics behind the chirality-induced...
This $380,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems under CFDA Program 47.041 (Engineering) will fund the development of new types of on-chip "topological photodetectors" that can detect and differentiate between different modes and properties of light, such as its phase, polarization, and orbital angular momentum. These novel photodetectors, based on emerging quantum materials like Weyl semimetals,...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Clemson University a $173,806 Project Grant under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program to advance the scientific understanding and technological development of a new class of semiconductor laser diodes based on metal halide perovskite materials. The three-year project seeks to overcome key technical challenges in realizing an electrically pumped, spin polarized perovskite laser diode, which could enable continuous wavelength tunability and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded a $450,000 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) to research and develop switchable persistent spin helix devices. The goal is to overcome key challenges in spintronic devices, which use electron spin rather than charge to carry information, by leveraging materials with strong spin-orbit coupling and electric-field tunable...
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 $423,035 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to realize novel optical and electronic devices using two-dimensional semiconductor heterostructures. The overarching objectives are to achieve unprecedented spatial control of interlayer exciton (IX) flow and quantum tunneling for potential applications in high-speed, low-power optoelectronic devices and quantum information systems.
The key research activities under...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $443,634 will fund research and education activities at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from October 2022 through March 2025. The award is part of the NSF Engineering Directorate's $47.041 million program to advance engineering innovation and education.
Specifically, the grant will support development of quantum spintronic device building blocks using magnetically ordered materials. The university researchers will explore how...
The Regents of the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs campus, received a $199,974 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to conduct research on hybrid magnonic optics for data processing applications from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2023. The NSF Engineering directorate seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength through engineering innovation and excellence in research and education. This award will support the university's...
This $425,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) is funding research at the University of Washington to achieve high-performance perovskite light-emitting diodes (LEDs) for optical interconnects. The key objectives are to: (1) engineer perovskite semiconductor materials and device designs to minimize resistance and increase LED modulation bandwidth; (2) optimize modulation formats using data-driven learning for...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) has awarded a $489,946 Project Grant to the University of South Florida (USF) to develop efficient opto-spintronic devices using ferrimagnetic/transition metal dichalcogenide heterostructures. The project aims to control the spin of injected electrons in light-emitting diodes (LEDs) to enable modulation of light circular polarization, which can enhance optical communications, display technologies, and quantum information applications. Key technical objectives include using tunable ferrimagnetic electrodes to improve spin injection efficiency into two-dimensional semiconductor materials, and growing lateral heterojunctions to generate chiral photon emission. The award, effective May 1, 2025, supports this research over a three-year period until April 30, 2028. No sub-awards are planned under this grant.