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 $140,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports Professor Sarah B. King of the University of Chicago in investigating how molecular chirality influences spin-selective charge and energy transport at material interfaces. The research aims to advance understanding of chiral spin-interface dynamics and offer new principles for designing materials that manipulate spin-selective processes for quantum...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry award provides $760,000 over 4 years to support an interdisciplinary research project led by Professors Colin Nuckolls and Xavier Roy of Columbia University. The project aims to explore the development of a new class of macromolecular materials that combine electronic and chiral properties, with the goal of understanding how chirality can be used to control spin-selective electron transport. This research will integrate advanced...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $369,059 CAREER grant under the Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program to Auburn University. The grant, titled "CHIRAL PHENOMENA OF EXCITED STATES IN SPINTRONICS", supports a 5-year research project investigating novel magneto-optical effects and nonreciprocal transport properties that emerge from chiral interactions between magnetic, phononic, and photonic excitations in two-dimensional materials and van der Waals heterostructures....
The University of Chicago received a $446,318 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. The grant will fund research to study spin manipulation and control via interactions between chiral molecules, ferromagnets, and superconductors, with the goal of improving interconnects between magnetic bits for the next generation of computing systems. The project aims to examine the basic principles of chiral...
This $489,946 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of South Florida aims to develop new opto-spintronic devices that can efficiently modulate the circular polarization of light. The project will explore the use of ferrimagnetic rare earth/transition metal alloy contacts to improve spin injection into two-dimensional semiconductor materials, enabling the generation of chiral photons through spin-polarized carrier...
This $244,955 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports theoretical and computational research to develop advanced computational tools and use them for describing the dynamical behavior of magnetic molecules connected to external electrodes and manipulated by magnetic fields. The research aims to provide a balance between computational efficiency and physical accuracy in simulating such open...
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 (NSF) awarded Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) a $425,174 Project Grant under its Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. The grant, awarded on September 1, 2023 with a completion date of August 31, 2026, funds RPI's research project titled "Chiral Strain Engineering of Polar Semiconductors." The project aims to utilize elastic strain to transform non-chiral semiconductors into chiral phases that possess topological chiral...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 5-year, $265,538 Project Grant to Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. The goal of this research project is to explore emergent topological phenomena in three-dimensional topological Dirac semimetal thin films, with a focus on leveraging molecular beam epitaxy, quantum transport measurements, and nano-focused angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. Key objectives include...