Project Grant 2532334
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences) provides $180,000 to Drexel University to develop new materials that can control optical properties for advanced photonic technologies. The 3-year project aims to leverage MXenes, a family of 2D materials, to create customizable, dynamically tunable, and reconfigurable optical materials that exhibit unique light-matter interactions like plasmonics, epsilon-near-zero response, and...
- This $375,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will support a collaborative research effort to accelerate the design and development of engineered photonic materials using a data-driven deep learning approach. The project aims to establish deep learning frameworks to construct photonic metamaterials with tailored optical properties, integrate information on constituent material platforms into deep...
- This $500,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049) aims to design a new class of engineered artificial materials known as metamaterials. The goal is to develop metamaterials that exhibit high refractive indices, allowing for the creation of more advanced optical components, faster computing, enhanced augmented reality displays, and improved high-speed communications. The project will...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $500,000.00 over a 4-year period to Purdue University to develop a novel hybrid thin film platform with unique optical properties for photonic integrated circuits (PICs). The research aims to advance understanding of electro-optical and magneto-optical coupling effects in complex nanoscale hybrid metamaterials, and demonstrate key building blocks for future large-scale PICs including...
- 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 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program provides $750,000 to Northeastern University to develop innovative engineered photonic materials using a data-driven deep learning approach. The research aims to accelerate the discovery, design, and implementation of new photonic metamaterials with tailored optical properties for applications in areas such as lasers, optical communications, quantum computing, and...
- This $330,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems and Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports collaborative research between Purdue University and the University of St. Thomas focused on investigating two-dimensional (2D) materials and developing photoswitchable interlayer exciton devices. Key activities include constructing 2D heterostructured hybrid devices from transition metal dichalcogenides and photochromic...
- This $450,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports the development of new composite materials with applications in optical devices. Professor Rob Macfarlane and his research group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will synthesize polymer-grafted nanoparticles containing large volumes of high refractive index nanoparticles embedded in a mechanically robust...
- This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $1,198,092 will support research at Northwestern University from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2025 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The university will design photonic lattices and multilayer structures that can confine light in small spaces near metal nanostructures and support electrically-driven excitation. Researchers will fabricate new architectures based on multilayer nanoparticle arrays and realize...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $234,020 to Duke University to advance the fundamental understanding of MXenes, an emerging class of atomically thin materials. The research will focus on three main objectives: Developing new methods to create pristine MXenes with clean, controlled surfaces. Using artificial intelligence to quickly analyze and understand these materials. Enabling new...
This $542,001 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will fund collaborative research at Purdue University to develop new customizable optical materials based on MXenes, a family of two-dimensional structures. The research aims to engineer these materials to precisely control light behavior, enabling advanced optical technologies for applications in communication, information technology, energy, and sensing. The project will integrate materials synthesis, characterization, and computational modeling to understand and optimize the optical and electronic properties of MXenes. This work will establish a novel design framework for producing customizable optical materials with exceptional properties, as well as new digital tools for predicting material behavior. In addition to the research, the grant will support interdisciplinary training for graduate and undergraduate students and the development of open-access educational resources to help prepare a new generation of photonics researchers.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $542.0k | 7/21/25 |