Project Grant 2529699
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $450,000 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) to develop a novel chip-scale silicon photonics (SiP) millimeter-wave (mm-wave) channelizer with ultra-wide bandwidth, dynamic tuning, ultra-fast channelization, and interferer tolerance capabilities. The project aims to integrate SiP components with nanometer CMOS circuitry to generate optical frequency combs with flat...
- The Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) received a $750,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems on August 15, 2021 to develop reconfigurable microwave silicon photonics filters and passive-user-friendly protocols for spectrum coexistence. The work will be performed in College Station, Texas through July 31, 2024. This award supports research under the NSF Directorate for Engineering's $47.041 million...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) has awarded a $540,000 Project Grant to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to develop a monolithic silicon-photonics accelerator that will enable next-generation massive multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) wireless systems. The goal of this 3-year project is to create a computation-efficient matrix-inversion algorithm and corresponding hybrid photonic-electronic integrated accelerator to support the...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded a $400,000 Project Grant to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The goal of the 3-year project is to develop an energy-efficient coherent optical interconnect architecture that can enable dramatic increases in datacenter and high-performance computing bandwidth-density and energy-efficiency. The key technical innovations...
- This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.084 - NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships) provides $180,000.00 to Baylor University to develop energy-efficient silicon photonic circuits with co-designed electronic application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs). The key products and services to be delivered include: Designing and fabricating a wavelength division multiplexing photonic transceiver consisting of silicon microring modulators, tunable...
- This federal Project Grant award of $595,000.00, provided by the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), aims to develop a scalable planar phased-array transceiver using 3D radio-frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) techniques. The primary objective is to establish a foundational building block for future high-frequency wideband wireless communication platforms operating at frequencies higher than 100 GHz. Additionally, the project includes an educational and outreach...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $600,000 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) for the "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: ASCENT: WAFER-SCALE SUB-THZ REFLECTARRAY FOR ELECTRICAL NEEDLE BEAM FORMING AND STEERING" project. The project aims to develop a set of semiconductor technologies, including new device fabrication, large-scale heterogeneous integration, and robust beam-alignment system architectures, to achieve...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will provide $547,117 to Trustees of Tufts College from July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2030. The project aims to develop a platform for scalable, nanoscale wavefront shaping using multimode photonic integrated circuits (PICs). This will enable the use of light in the visible wavelength range for optical interfaces and control of information from cells, atoms, and ions. The research will address challenges...
- This $285,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports the development of methodology to enable satellite communication links operating in higher frequency bands (12-40 GHz) to achieve reliability and performance levels comparable to lower congested frequency systems (below 10 GHz). The primary goal is to establish the feasibility of transitioning line-of-sight communication systems, specifically...
- This federal Project Grant award of $380,000.00, provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049), aims to develop innovative microelectronic hardware solutions that can enhance the performance and resilience of future wireless systems in highly dynamic and congested spectrum environments. The project, titled "High Dynamic-Range Software-Defined Radio Front-Ends for Interference Mitigation in Future RF to MM-Wave...
This $508,609 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041) aims to develop a novel chip-scale silicon photonics millimeter-wave (mm-wave) full-duplex transceiver architecture with ultra-wideband self-interference cancellation capabilities. The project, being conducted by the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees), will leverage advanced modeling and design of silicon photonics and complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) circuits to create improved mm-wave full-duplex radios. These radios have applications in areas such as wireless backhaul links, 5G base stations, virtual reality, and electronic warfare. The research results will also be used to develop an advanced graduate course and promote outreach activities for high school students and teachers. The project aims to have significant potential impacts in both the wireless and semiconductor industries and will widely disseminate its findings to academic, industrial, and government sectors. The award period is from October 1, 2025, to September 30, 2028.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $508.6k | 8/18/25 |