Project Grant 2522500
- This $490,272.00 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research supports collaborative research to study the impacts of defects and disorder on the properties of ferroelectric wurtzite nitrides. The research aims to provide a more rigorous understanding of how point defects, structural damage, and other complex defect interactions affect the performance of these materials, which show promise for advanced communications and reduced computational...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $564,997 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049) to Carnegie Mellon University. The grant, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: DMREF: NSF: DFG: INCORPORATING DISORDER AND DEFECTS IN THE DESIGN OF FERROELECTRIC NITRIDES," aims to rigorously capture the interactions and effects of point defects and extended defects on properties in wurtzite nitrides. The research team, which includes...
- This $627,705 National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Program (CFDA 47.049) aims to advance strain engineering techniques to create novel lead-free ferroelectric oxide heterostructures and membranes. The research team at North Carolina State University (NC State) seeks to develop innovative strain-induced phase boundaries in these materials, which can enable enhanced electrical and electromechanical functionalities for next-generation...
- The National Science Foundation awarded $479,999 to the Colorado School of Mines under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) for the project "Defect States of Silicon Allotropes for Quantum Information Science" from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024. This three-year Project Grant will support research into defect states of silicon allotropes for applications in quantum information science. The Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to promote...
- This $250,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Materials Research (CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences) supports research to design and discover new "heteroanionic" materials containing multiple types of negatively charged anion atoms. The goal is to understand how the atomic-scale structure of these complex materials influences their electronic, magnetic, and optical properties, enabling the development of advanced materials for...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $450,000 to Colorado State University (CSU) from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2027. The project aims to develop a novel adaptive, fully anisotropic multiscale hp-element method to revolutionize simulation-based design in computational electromagnetics (CEM). The research will create exponentially convergent techniques to accurately and efficiently model multiscale, non-smooth behavior...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research to selectively synthesize and characterize new oxynitride-based materials at Colorado State University. The project aims to understand the structure-property relationships of these heteroanionic materials, which can exhibit enhanced and unique functionality compared to single-anion materials. The $512,564 award from September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2028...
- This Project Grant award, valued at $104,060, was provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program to Drexel University. The award supports a 5-year research and education project aimed at understanding how dislocations (crystalline defects) move and how their motion affects the deformation behavior of a class of materials known as concentrated solid-solution alloys (CSAs). The project integrates statistical theories,...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research awarded a $346,461 project grant to North Carolina State University (NC State) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant supports research and education aimed at advancing simulation and computational approaches for studying the atomic and electronic structures of materials. Key focus areas include: Expanding the ability of quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) many-body wave function methods to describe...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $250,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program to the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (New Mexico Tech) in Socorro, NM. The grant supports research to develop a process-driven approach for producing ultrathin dielectric layers using 2D layered materials. The goal is to provide an alternative to conventional deposition methods by converting selected 2D materials into functional...
This $944,728 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Materials Research (CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences) to the Trustees of the Colorado School of Mines (CSM) on October 1, 2025. The purpose of this 4-year collaborative research project is to rigorously model the interactions and effects of point defects and extended defects on the properties of ferroelectric wurtzite nitrides. This research aims to bridge the gap between simplified computational models and real-world films grown using commercial techniques, in order to accelerate the deployment of these advanced materials for enabling improved communications technologies and reducing computational energy consumption - key national priorities. The project team includes experts in simulation, synthesis, characterization, and testing from the U.S. and Germany, as well as partners from the Army Research Laboratory and an industrial advisory board to facilitate scale-up and commercialization of research findings.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $944.7k | 9/12/25 |