Project Grant 2532742
- 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...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $308,145 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the Research Foundation of the City University of New York (RFCUNY) on September 1, 2023. The 3-year collaborative research project, "First-Principle Control of Novel Resonances in Non-Hermitian Photonic Media," explores a novel behavior of light within solid materials. The research aims to establish a complex non-Hermitian photonic environment...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $416,059 Project Grant titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: FIRST-PRINCIPLE CONTROL OF NOVEL RESONANCES IN NON-HERMITIAN PHOTONIC MEDIA" under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). This grant supports integrated research, education, and outreach focused on studying a novel behavior of light within solid materials. The researchers aim to establish a complex non-Hermitian photonic environment through first-principle...
- This $523,635 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports research at Colgate University to explore techniques for creating novel three-dimensional light patterns that have potential applications in biomedical imaging, communications, and quantum metrology. The principal investigator and undergraduate research team will investigate how manipulating the degrees of freedom in light, such as polarization 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...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences awarded a $249,994 Project Grant to the Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology, a private research university in Hoboken, New Jersey. This grant, under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports research activities focused on simulating quantum tasks using classical light beams. The research aims to investigate analogies between microscopic quantum systems and...
- This $500,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research at Princeton University to investigate interactions between structured laser light and plasmas. The university will use high-power elliptically polarized and vortex laser beams to produce plasma harmonics with tunable polarization states for the first time. Two- and three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations will compare to experimental results. The...
- This $150,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research on advances in inverse electromagnetic scattering theory for complex periodic media, including photonic and chiral photonic crystals. The project aims to simulate wave-material interactions and reconstruct defects in these materials using measurements of the scattered waves. This research will contribute to the study of the direct and...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $600,000 to Auburn University to advance the understanding of nano-polaritons - waves that combine light and matter and can be used to control energy and information at the nanoscale. The research team will explore how these waves behave when moving across materials of different shapes and sizes, which could lead to more efficient ways to send and control...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1,555,000 Cooperative Agreement under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program to Myrias Optics Inc. in Amherst, MA. The project, titled "STTR FAST-TRACK: ADVANCED MANUFACTURING OF ALL-INORGANIC POLARIZATION CONTROLLED METASURFACES FOR ENABLING NEXT GENERATION FULL-STOKES IMAGING CAMERAS", aims to demonstrate the first polarization-controlled metasurfaces operating at visible wavelengths that can be scaled...
This Project Grant award of $250,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Program (CFDA 47.049) supports research to control the polarization of light in resonant flat optics devices. The project explores interactions between light and nanostructured materials to develop compact, lightweight devices with pixel-by-pixel control over light polarization. The research aims to enable technological breakthroughs in areas like holography, imaging, and sensing, while also expanding undergraduate education and participation in this field. The project is led by the Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology, a private research university in Hoboken, New Jersey, and will be completed by August 31, 2027.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $250.0k | 8/19/25 |