Project Grant 2545143
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (CFDA 47.041) awarded a $255,000 Project Grant to North Carolina State University (NC State) to theoretically investigate and experimentally demonstrate compact, on-chip III-V lasers that are robust, efficient, and have a tailorable single-mode operation range. The proposed program aims to develop a family of topologically protected lasers to satisfy requirements for next-generation lasers used in photonic integrated circuits...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Clemson University a $173,806 Project Grant under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program to advance the scientific understanding and technological development of a new class of semiconductor laser diodes based on metal halide perovskite materials. The three-year project seeks to overcome key technical challenges in realizing an electrically pumped, spin polarized perovskite laser diode, which could enable continuous wavelength tunability and...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) has awarded a $487,692 project grant to Utah State University (USU) to develop and demonstrate a novel ultrafast, deep-ultraviolet transient grating spectroscopy technique. This nondestructive, noncontact measurement tool will enable the study of phonon-dominated thermal transport in wide- and ultrawide-bandgap semiconductor materials like gallium oxides, boron nitride, and crystalline diamond. The project, which runs from...
- This $444,350 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems, under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041), will fund research at North Carolina State University to develop environmentally stable, electrically pumped perovskite lasers for integration into photonic integrated circuits. Over a three-year period from January 2022 to March 2025, the university will work to realize silicon-compatible perovskite lasers that...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $359,971 project grant to the University of Oklahoma to research methods for enhancing heat transfer across the interface between diamond substrates and gallium nitride (GaN) electronic devices. The project, funded under NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), aims to explore how evanescent electric fields can be leveraged to improve acoustic phonon transmission and thermal conductance at these critical interfaces. This work seeks to enable more...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $304,913 Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program to Coolaimate, Inc. to develop and validate hybrid silicon photonic tunable lasers. The goal is to produce cost-effective photonic chips capable of highly accurate natural gas energy content measurement through tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy. This technology aims to overcome limitations of current natural gas chromatographs and...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $550,000 Project Grant under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program to Baylor University. The project aims to improve the energy efficiency of silicon photonic chips by incorporating a novel conductive oxide material, hydrogen-doped indium oxide (IHO), into the fabrication process. This innovation will enable more energy-efficient data transfer using light instead of electrical signals, with applications in data centers,...
- This $348,785 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities (IA) program supports research at Elizabeth City State University (ECSU) to develop a new understanding of hyperdoping silicon with nitrogen for enhanced infrared (IR) light absorption. The key objectives are to investigate the materials science and physics underlying the incorporation of high amounts of nitrogen into silicon, which creates an intermediate energy band that enables the absorption...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $398,500.00 to The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York (RF SUNY) to develop new principles for the ultrafast and energy-efficient operation of lasers and optical interconnects. The research aims to take advantage of the faster changes in the polarization of emitted light, rather than relying on conventional intensity-based information transfer, to enable...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $370,210 to Bowling Green State University to develop a new class of colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals, called "quantum shells," for use in electrically pumped laser diodes. The goal is to realize low-cost, color-tunable, and flexible photonic circuits with wide-ranging applications in medical imaging, optical communications, and flexible electronics. The research aims to...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) awarded a $397,080 Project Grant to the University of Oklahoma (OU) to develop advanced interband cascade lasers (ICLs) on silicon substrates. The project aims to create efficient and low-cost mid-infrared semiconductor lasers that can operate at room temperature with low power consumption. The key objectives include: This 3-year project, running from October 1, 2025, to September 30, 2028, will advance the understanding and knowledge of how efficient infrared light sources can be produced on silicon. It also provides unique educational and research opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students at OU.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $397.1k | 8/20/25 |