Project Grant 2525896
- This federal Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), supports an international collaborative research project focused on developing a new class of metamaterial-based devices capable of manipulating optical angular momentum at the nanoscale and ultrafast timescales. The $300,000 award, effective from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2028, brings together researchers from Duke University, the University of Massachusetts Lowell, and...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $500,000 Project Grant to the University of Massachusetts Amherst under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) for the period of April 1, 2021 through March 31, 2026. The grant funds the development of scalable, high-precision optoelectronic lab-on-a-chip technologies towards next-generation precision therapeutics. The Engineering program seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength through innovation and excellence in engineering research and...
- This Project Grant award of $500,000.00 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of Maryland, College Park will explore a new class of low-loss phase change materials to control light propagation and enable "synthetic dimensions" for advanced optical information processing and computing. The project aims to develop reconfigurable modal control and topological nanophotonics for next-generation communications and quantum computing...
- This National Science Foundation award provides $249,901 in funding to the University of Massachusetts Lowell under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) from September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2025. The funding supports fundamental research on consistent treatment of boundaries and interfaces in metamaterials. A multi-disciplinary team will perform theoretical and computational analysis of transition layers and use inverse design principles to create devices that control propagation of...
- This $124,990 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities (IA) program (CFDA 47.083) supports research at the University of New Mexico (UNM) to develop novel metasurfaces based on two-dimensional and layered materials. The key objectives are to explore the optical properties of van der Waals nanoantennas, engineer multipolar resonances to achieve desirable responses, and control the directionality and linewidth of scattered light. This work aims to...
- This $547,117 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research at Tufts University to develop a platform for enabling scalable, nanoscale wavefront shaping using multimode photonic integrated circuits (PICs). The project aims to enable optical techniques in fields such as biomedical devices, quantum computing, and portable displays by miniaturizing visible-wavelength PICs to a chip-scale. Key research objectives include...
- This $1,998,806.00 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports an ambitious multi-institutional research effort to advance quantum science and engineering. The goal is to develop a new class of devices based on the emergent quantum physics of periodically driven materials, establishing a novel paradigm for Floquet-enabled quantum detection and sensing. The project aims to produce integrated sensing devices that will create a fully...
- This federal Project Grant award of $557,013 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to develop new quantum photonic technologies that can enable scalable quantum computing and communication applications. Specifically, the project at the University of Oklahoma seeks to create high-quality, deterministic sources of entangled photons using a novel class of "artificial atoms" that can be integrated at scale. In addition to advancing the...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded $400,000 to Northeastern University under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) federal grant program. The three-year project grant will support research into non-Hermitian and topological plasmonic devices for light manipulation at the nanoscale. The Engineering program seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength by fostering innovation and excellence in engineering research. This award will...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $878,148 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from July 15, 2023 through June 30, 2026. This grant supports MIT's research in quantum optics and optomechanics, with a focus on developing quantum systems to probe fundamental quantum phenomena and enable precision quantum noise-limited measurements. Key areas of research include: 1) exploring quantum...
This $199,906 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports an interdisciplinary research program led by the University of Massachusetts Lowell. The program aims to develop a new class of metamaterial-based devices that can precisely manipulate optical angular momentum (OAM) at nanoscale spatial and ultrafast temporal scales. This capability will enable improved control over light-matter interactions at the molecular level, with applications in areas like imaging, sensing, communications, and quantum technologies. The 3-year program, running from September 2025 through August 2028, integrates expertise in engineering, computational science, advanced nanofabrication, and novel characterization methods. It seeks to overcome a key challenge in integrating nanoscale quantum emitters with micrometer-scale light confinement, advancing the development of future communications and quantum devices.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $199.9k | 8/18/25 |