Project Grant 2532996
- This $625,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports a study of a novel method to accelerate particles to very high energies using plasma as the accelerating medium. The award will fund graduate and undergraduate students, including collaborative student travel to CERN, to establish advanced spectroscopic methods and finite element modeling to qualify the helicon plasma source technology for application...
- This federal Project Grant award of $875,000.00 was provided by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to Northern Illinois University (NIU) to conduct research on "Tailoring Phase Space Correlations for Future Accelerators". The project period runs from August 1, 2025 to November 30, 2026. NIU, a public research university, has an extensive history of performing federally funded research across scientific disciplines including...
- This Project Grant award, totaling $604,164, was provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Physics under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The goal of this 3-year project, awarded to the University of Oregon, is to enable and expand quantum-inspired measurements and technologies using electron microscopes. The project develops new techniques to prepare and measure the coherence and phase of free electron wavefunctions, such as using nanoscale...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, under CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences, provides $180,000 in funding to Northern Illinois University to conduct research on particle physics and advance the understanding of the fundamental constituents of matter. The key activities under this award include: Studying particle collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva, Switzerland to enhance the understanding of the Higgs boson and search for new...
- This $238,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports research, education, and outreach activities focused on understanding the fundamental role of the coupling between electrons and lattice vibrations in materials. The project aims to develop advanced computational approaches to reveal the impact of electron-lattice interactions in complex, interacting-electron systems and explain phenomena observed in...
- The federal Project Grant award of $375,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Program (CFDA 47.049) aims to study the 3D structure of atomic nuclei and their constituents, protons and neutrons, to better understand the strong nuclear force. The program will use world-leading electron-scattering facilities at Jefferson Lab in Virginia to conduct experimental studies on the distribution of quarks and gluons within nucleons and nuclei. The key products...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $434,000 project grant to the University of Nevada, Reno to acquire a scanning x-ray photoelectron spectrometer microprobe for research and education. The grant falls under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to advance scientific knowledge and understanding in these fields. The University will use the funding over a two-year period from September 2021 through August 2023 to purchase a scanning x-ray photoelectron...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $578,000 two-year Project Grant to the University of California, Santa Barbara through the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant funds the development of an ultrafast, ultrasensitive, and high resolution direct electron detector for next-generation electron back-scattered diffraction of metallic and beam-sensitive materials. The Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to increase scientific knowledge and...
- This $425,000 federal Project Grant award was provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. The grant supports fundamental research on ultrafast quantum dynamics in superconducting materials using terahertz two-dimensional coherent spectroscopy techniques. The project aims to better understand and control quantum behavior in materials, with potential applications in fields like computing, medical imaging, and secure...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049) provides $683,990 to conduct research on polarized electron physics. The key objectives are to study collisions between polarized electrons and chiral molecules, explore the interaction of very slow polarized electrons with hydrogen molecules, and develop novel sources of polarized electrons using multiphoton ionization of metallic nanostructures. This...
This $249,858 federal project grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) aims to develop advanced electron sources for accelerator applications. The key objectives are to enhance the performance of conventional photoemission-based electron sources, known as photocathodes, and establish capabilities for growing novel alkali-antimonide photocathodes using pulsed laser deposition. The project deliverables include next-generation electron sources that will expand the capabilities of accelerator systems, potentially reducing their size and cost while improving accessibility for science, medicine, and education. The grant will also provide hands-on training for graduate and undergraduate students, contributing to the development of a skilled STEM workforce. The award was made to Northern Illinois University, a public research university with extensive experience in federally funded STEM research.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $249.9k | 8/5/25 |