Project Grant 2541940
- Federal Grant Award Summary The Leland Stanford Junior University received a $237,125 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) effective July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2028. This award supports the ECLIPSE-CHIPS initiative, which focuses on developing advanced predictive modeling capabilities for low-temperature plasmas (LTPs) used in microelectronics fabrication. The primary...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The Leland Stanford Junior University received a $600,000 project grant from the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), awarded on March 2, 2026, with a completion date of March 1, 2029. This funding supports research activities within the High Energy Density Laboratory Plasmas (HEDLP) Joint Program, a collaborative initiative established in 2008 between NNSA's Defense Programs...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The Leland Stanford Junior University received a $450,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Physics (CFDA 47.049, Mathematical and Physical Sciences) effective August 15, 2025 through July 31, 2027. This collaborative research initiative supports the development of novel haloscope detector technologies designed to significantly advance axion dark matter searches as part of the ADMX-VERA (Axion Dark Matter Experiment-VERA)...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Office of Integrative Activities awarded The Leland Stanford Junior University a $1,393,726 Project Grant (CFDA 47.083: Integrative Activities) effective April 1, 2026, through March 31, 2029, to develop a state-of-the-art experimental system for ultra-low temperature spectroscopy of quantum emitters in solids and two-dimensional materials. The primary deliverable is an advanced cryogenic spectroscopy instrument featuring a dilution...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The Leland Stanford Junior University received a $875,000 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy's Office of Science (CFDA 81.049) beginning August 1, 2025 and concluding July 31, 2026. The award supports research on "Emergent Magnetism from Dynamical Spin-Lattice Coupling," a fundamental physics investigation conducted at Stanford's campus in Stanford, California. This project represents core scientific research aligned with the Office of...
- Grant Award Summary The Board of Trustees of The Leland Stanford Junior University received a $1.1M Cooperative Agreement from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), CFDA 81.135, awarded on September 18, 2025, with a completion date of September 17, 2028. The project, titled "Gaseous Optics for Next Generation Fusion Energy Lasers," addresses a critical technical barrier in laser-driven inertial fusion energy (IFE) by developing gas-based optical components to replace...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The Leland Stanford Junior University received a $2,025,000 Project Grant from the Department of Energy's Office of Science (CFDA 81.049) awarded on September 1, 2025, with completion targeted for August 31, 2026. The grant supports research focused on "Integrated Data-Driven Methods for Scientific Discovery of Nonequilibrium Thermochemical Processes in Complex Environments from Ultrafast X-Ray Measurements at LCLS" (Linac Coherent Light Source)....
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The Leland Stanford Junior University received a $300,000 project grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Physics under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) on August 15, 2025, with a completion date of July 31, 2027. The award supports the Axion Resonant Interaction Detection Experiment (ARIADNE), a collaborative continuation proposal designed to complete experimental setup and initiate data collection efforts...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Award Overview: The Leland Stanford Junior University received a $300,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Mathematical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), awarded September 1, 2025, with completion targeted for August 31, 2028. This award supports fundamental research in applied mathematics focused on understanding the validity and behavior of approximate macroscopic models used to...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The Leland Stanford Junior University received a $322,400 project grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) on September 15, 2025, with a completion date of August 31, 2028. The project, titled "AIMING: AI Theorem Proving Beyond Limited Data: Efficient Learning of Mathematicians' Ecosystem," focuses on developing artificial intelligence (AI) systems capable of accelerating mathematical...
The Leland Stanford Junior University received a $510,000 CAREER (Careers in Research and Education) award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Physics under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) effective February 1, 2026 through January 31, 2031. This project grant supports the development of plasma-based optical components for compact ultra-high-power laser systems, addressing a critical technological bottleneck in laser development. The primary deliverable is a plasma-based femtosecond laser beamline designed to enable laser systems to operate at significantly higher light intensities—approximately one thousand times greater than current systems—while maintaining compact form factors. The research integrates theoretical, computational, and experimental investigation of structured plasma behavior in high-intensity light fields, chirped-pulse-amplification architectures utilizing plasma optics, and machine learning optimization techniques for high-repetition-rate laser operation. Beyond the core research deliverables, the award generates significant educational and training products through expanded research and educational opportunities for high school, undergraduate, and graduate students in plasma physics and optics engineering. The compact plasma-based laser systems developed under this award are intended to advance multiple scientific fields including particle physics, plasma physics, quantum optics, and astrophysics, while enabling practical applications in nuclear fusion energy, cancer radiotherapy, sensitive material detection via X-ray imaging, and advanced accelerator development for semiconductor manufacturing.Federal Grant Award Summary
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $510.0k | 1/20/26 |