Project Grant 2529604
- This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), provides $457,500 to Trustees of Boston University from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025. The funding supports research to develop new classes of photodetectors based on metasurface nanophotonics technology. This aims to enable advanced computational imaging capabilities beyond traditional sensors, such as producing focused...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded Northeastern University $448,318 on October 1, 2026, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop a design framework combining physics-based theory with artificial intelligence for optical metasurfaces that simultaneously harness multiple properties of light. The project, running through September 30, 2029, seeks to dramatically increase the information-processing capacity of ultrathin...
- The Trustees of Boston University were awarded a $380,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems to support research related to signal processing for single-photon detectors from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024. The award is being used to fund research under the NSF's Engineering program (CFDA #47.041), which aims to improve quality of life and economic strength by fostering innovation and excellence in engineering research....
- The National Science Foundation Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences awarded Trustees of Boston University $313,253 on September 1, 2026, for collaborative research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The project, titled "COLIMATE: An On-Chip Spectrometer Array for Multi-Line Intensity Mapping Cosmology," implements line intensity mapping (LIM) techniques to detect distant galaxies and study cosmic structure across time. The work develops...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded a $275,000 Project Grant to Princeton University for collaborative research titled "META-OPTICAL COMPUTATIONAL IMAGE SENSORS." The three-year award, made on August 1, 2021 under the Engineering (47.041) program, will support the development of meta-optical computational image sensors through July 31, 2024. The Engineering program aims to improve quality of life and economic strength by...
- The Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command awarded Trustees of Boston University $300,000 on September 15, 2025, under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431) to conduct research integrating non-Hermitian physics with nonlinear optics to enhance infrared photon absorption at the nanoscale. The research addresses engineering spectral singularities in non-Hermitian nonlinear photonic structures for enhanced photon detection in the...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded $550,000 to President and Fellows of Harvard College on June 15, 2026, for development of integrated-photonics spatial light modulators under the CAREER program (CFDA 47.041, Engineering). The award funds research to design and integrate large-scale, high-speed spatial light modulators combining solid-state gain laser arrays, high-speed electro-optic modulators, two-dimensional beam-emitter arrays,...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded Northeastern University $550,000 on October 1, 2026, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop on-chip hollow glass bubble resonators functionalized with highly nonlinear materials for generating classical and quantum optical frequency combs. The research platform will create a reconfigurable approach to efficient classical and quantum light source generation, with potential applications...
- Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Computing and Communication Foundations (CISE program, CFDA 47.070) awarded Trustees of Boston University a $600,000 Project Grant effective October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2028, for research in atmospheric absorption-based computational sensing. The project develops advanced long-wave infrared (LWIR) sensing capabilities beyond conventional thermal imaging, enabling three-dimensional imaging and remote sensing of air composition...
- 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 Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded Trustees of Boston University $508,446 on October 1, 2026, for development of phase and polarization imaging meta-sensor arrays under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The project will design, fabricate, and characterize metasurfaces—specially engineered dielectric coatings that introduce sharp dependence of responsivity on illumination angle and polarization at visible wavelengths. These metasurfaces will be integrated into commercial CMOS sensor arrays to enable single-shot measurement of spatial distribution of incident optical intensity, phase, and polarization without requiring complex or bulky auxiliary systems. The work will also develop specialized computational protocols to process the resulting imaging data. These capabilities are intended to expand visualization of objects under limited-intensity-contrast conditions and support applications in machine vision, biomedical microscopy, endoscopy, remote sensing, and autonomous navigation. The project will additionally support multidisciplinary workforce training in nanophotonics, semiconductor nanofabrication, and image sensing technologies. Work is performed in Boston, Massachusetts, with a period of performance from October 1, 2026, through September 30, 2029.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $508.4k | 7/29/26 |