Project Grant 2549360
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) has awarded a $540,000 Project Grant to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to develop a monolithic silicon-photonics accelerator that will enable next-generation massive multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) wireless systems. The goal of this 3-year project is to create a computation-efficient matrix-inversion algorithm and corresponding hybrid photonic-electronic integrated accelerator to support the...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded Carnegie Mellon University $449,500 on October 1, 2026, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop an integrated photonic platform for chip-scale optical and microwave frequency division. The project will develop a new integrated photonic platform based on crystalline silicon carbide to combine optical and optomechanical functions on a single chip, enabling compact, low-power sources of...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded the University of California, San Diego $500,000 on October 1, 2026, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop nature-inspired, three-dimensionally architected photonic surfaces that leverage light to nondestructively map structural properties of biological fibrous tissue onto a quantitative color response. The photonic surfaces, drawing inspiration from structural color mechanisms found...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded $508,609 under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station for a three-year project (October 1, 2025 – September 30, 2028). The primary deliverables include the development of a chip-scale silicon photonics millimeter-wave full-duplex transceiver architecture with ultra-wideband self-interference cancellation capability. The...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems Project Grant, awarded under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), provides $250,000 in funding to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2026. The project aims to develop novel transceiver architectures, circuit blocks, design techniques, and communication strategies to enable energy-efficient millimeter wave wireless networks. The research effort...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded $550,000 to President and Fellows of Harvard College on June 15, 2026, for development of integrated-photonics spatial light modulators under the CAREER program (CFDA 47.041, Engineering). The award funds research to design and integrate large-scale, high-speed spatial light modulators combining solid-state gain laser arrays, high-speed electro-optic modulators, two-dimensional beam-emitter arrays,...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded a $550,000 Project Grant under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley. The grant period runs from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2026. The goal of the research project is to explore low-cost integrated circuit technology for next-generation 240 GHz multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) radar...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded a $400,000 Project Grant to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The goal of the 3-year project is to develop an energy-efficient coherent optical interconnect architecture that can enable dramatic increases in datacenter and high-performance computing bandwidth-density and energy-efficiency. The key technical innovations...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded a $280,000 Project Grant to The Trustees of Princeton University for collaborative research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: SWIFT: WIDEBAND SPECTRUM COEXISTENCE ENABLED BY PHOTONIC CIRCUITS: CROSS-LAYER DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION." The period of performance for this award is from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2024. The goal of this research is to improve spectrum coexistence for wireless...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $450,000 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) to develop a novel chip-scale silicon photonics (SiP) millimeter-wave (mm-wave) channelizer with ultra-wide bandwidth, dynamic tuning, ultra-fast channelization, and interferer tolerance capabilities. The project aims to integrate SiP components with nanometer CMOS circuitry to generate optical frequency combs with flat...
The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded the University of California, Berkeley $366,665 on October 1, 2026, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop photonics-enabled energy-efficient radio architecture with in-line signal processing for massive MIMO systems. The project, titled "PRISM" (Photonics-Enabled Energy-Efficient Radio Architecture with In-Line Signal Processing for Massive MIMO), addresses scalability and energy limitations in current mobile fronthaul technologies by replacing conventional massive MIMO radio units and digital radio-over-fiber systems with photonics-enabled alternatives connected over wavelength-division multiplexing fronthaul. The research integrates three interconnected thrusts: development of a unified modeling and calibration framework for electrical-to-optical-to-electrical signal transmission over the RF-photonic WDM fronthaul; investigation of integrated photonic and RF circuits based on microring modulators and photodetectors for efficient modulation and local oscillator distribution; and design of in-line analog signal processing architectures that perform matrix-vector multiplication directly within the RF-photonic fronthaul, converting it from a communication medium into a computing substrate. This is a collaborative effort between Duke University and UC Berkeley. The award funds research through September 30, 2029, with performance at UC Berkeley's Berkeley, California location. The project advances knowledge at the intersection of wireless communications, signal processing, and integrated photonics to enable dense, cost-effective radio unit deployments.
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