This $237,167 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) program supports research and educational activities aimed at understanding the quantum behavior of van der Waals (VDW) magnets. The principal investigator and their team will develop new computational methods to study light-matter interactions in VDW magnets, with the goal of advancing technologies like optoelectronics, energy harvesting, and quantum information...
This $413,851 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports research by Case Western Reserve University to develop magnetic nanostructures for addressing and coupling nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center spin qubits. The goal is to understand how to engineer magnetic materials and structures to provide strong, local, and controllable magnetic fields for manipulating NV center...
This $232,786 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports collaborative research between the University of Wyoming and Colorado State University to explore the unconventional magnetic properties of two-dimensional van der Waals magnets. The research team will employ experimental and theoretical approaches, including nanofabrication, magnetotransport measurements, scanning probe microscopy, and computational...
This $995,658 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) aims to accelerate the development and adoption of quantum sensing platforms to drive advances in magnetic materials and devices.
The award supports an interdisciplinary team at Case Western Reserve University that will develop a magnetic quantum sensing platform using nitrogen-vacancy defects in diamond to detect magnetic waves (magnons) in novel magnetic...
This $483,605 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports a collaborative research project between the University of Wyoming and Colorado State University. The research aims to explore the novel magnetic properties and behaviors of two-dimensional van der Waals magnets, with the goal of developing advanced computing technologies like probabilistic bits (p-bits) for future information and communication...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $197,780 to Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIU) to conduct research and development on a novel quantum magnetometer sensor. The project aims to develop an organic chromophore-based magnetometer sensor that can detect magnetic field variations with ultra-high sensitivity and accuracy. This innovative sensor design integrates the organic chromophore with a nanomechanical...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) awarded a $275,000 Project Grant to Georgetown University to conduct collaborative research on integrating magneto-ionic and ferroelectric control of 2D magnets for energy-efficient skyrmion-based memory. The project aims to achieve low-voltage control of magnetic skyrmions in 2D van der Waals magnets by leveraging magneto-ionic gate effects and ferroelectric materials. The research will explore creating, manipulating,...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1,800,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to The Trustees of Princeton University to develop new quantum sensing tools for studying physical phenomena, structure, and composition of materials. The project, titled "QUSEC-TAQS: Nanoscale Covariance Magnetometry with Diamond Quantum Sensors," aims to use nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamond as a large-scale quantum sensing platform to...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 5-year, $239,348 CAREER grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the University of Arizona. This grant supports an experimental investigation to understand the underlying magnetic energy scales affecting long-range magnetic ordering in van der Waals magnets. The project aims to design and synthesize new functional van der Waals magnets with controlled magnetic behavior and high ordering temperatures. The...
The National Science Foundation awarded Virginia Commonwealth University a $800,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to develop energy efficient quantum control of robust spin ensemble qubits. The three-year award will support research to simulate and demonstrate highly localized control of qubits using nanomagnets driven by electric fields at spin qubit Larmor frequencies. This aims to implement single-qubit quantum gates with high fidelities...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, funded under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), supports research to utilize nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center quantum sensing techniques for evaluating room-temperature van der Waals (VDW) magnets and their potential applications in next-generation quantum spintronic devices.
The $379,998 award, effective May 1, 2025 through April 30, 2028, will enable the Georgia Tech Research Corporation to directly visualize "field-free" deterministic magnetization switching and magnetic skyrmions in VDW materials like Fe3GeTe2, advancing the design and development of VDW spin memory devices. The project also aims to create hybrid systems integrating NV centers and functional VDW magnets to address technical challenges faced by NV centers for practical quantum information applications. By demonstrating scanning NV quantum microscopy techniques on cutting-edge material and device systems, this project seeks to provide a multimodal sensing platform that can be applied to a range of low-dimensional quantum materials, enabling new insights into microscopic spin behaviors and innovative spintronic circuit performance.