Project Grant 2549660
- The National Science Foundation awarded Molecular Interfaces, LLC a $1.245569 million Cooperative Agreement on August 1, 2026, under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) to develop high-light-throughput transparent electrodes for OLED displays. The award funds research into thin metal electrode materials and manufacturing methods that maintain conductivity while improving transparency—overcoming the traditional trade-off where reducing electrode thickness...
- This $274,953 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program funds the development of more efficient and brighter organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays for use in cell phones, tablets, and smart watches. The project aims to generate OLED displays that are 1.5 times more efficient and brighter than current models, which could result in up to 19% power savings for the 4.9 billion cell phones worldwide. The...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $250,000 to Rutgers, The State University aims to improve the efficiency and operational lifetime of organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays used in portable electronic devices. The project will integrate plasmonic metasurfaces into the back silver anode electrode of top-emitting phosphorescent blue OLED devices to enhance stability and efficiency. This technology has the...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to Rutgers, The State University under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships federal grant program (CFDA 47.084) to develop more stable and efficient organic light-emitting diodes for applications in horticulture and architectural lighting. Specifically, the awardee will work to improve the efficiency and stability of blue emission and overall light extraction from OLED sources through nanotechnology approaches such as...
- This $300,182 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will fund research at Dartmouth College to develop new transparent conducting materials for optoelectronic applications. Specifically, the grantee will engineer the atomic composition, crystallinity, and electronic transport properties of two-dimensional metal oxide nanosheets printed from liquid metals. Initial studies show these 2D oxides have unique overlapping grain structures,...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research awarded the University of Wisconsin System $665,575 on April 1, 2026, for collaborative research in rational design of tunable anisotropic chalcogenides for optics. The award funds work performed at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in Madison, Wisconsin, through March 31, 2030. The project develops a new class of low-loss optical materials with large optical anisotropy and controlled spatial variations, tunable across visible to...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program aims to develop a cost-effective, high-resolution organic light-emitting diode (OLED)-based infrared sensor prototype. The $125,000 award to Oklahoma State University will fund the creation of an innovative OLED-based infrared sensor that uses colloidal quantum dots and OLED up-conversion technology to convert short-wave infrared (SWIR) images to...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program provides $305,000 to Elektrum Technologies, Inc. to develop an additive manufacturing process for producing low-cost, flexible, and transparent conductive electrodes. The goal is to create a more cost-effective alternative to indium tin oxide, which is a brittle material currently used in many optoelectronic applications. The Phase I project will focus on two key...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to significantly improve the efficiency of ultraviolet (UV) light-emitting diodes (LEDs). The objective is to develop a new class of flexible, lattice-engineered substrates that can address strain-related issues and enhance light extraction for UV emitters, resulting in up to a 10-fold efficiency improvement over current solutions. The $549,999 award to the University of Wisconsin...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded Princeton University $306,340 on October 15, 2026, to develop a predictive device physics framework for high-performance organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The project, a collaboration between Princeton University and Wake Forest University, will establish fundamental understanding of how OECTs operate and create a simulation-guided design...
The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded the University of Wisconsin System $400,000 on October 15, 2026, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) enabled by correlated-electron transparent conductors. The project, performed at UW-Madison in Madison, Wisconsin, runs through September 30, 2029. The work addresses the fundamental challenge of creating transparent conductor materials that simultaneously provide electrical conductivity and optical transparency for OLED interfaces. The research focuses on designing, synthesizing, and evaluating OLEDs that incorporate a new generation of correlated-electron transparent conductors, probing the efficiency and properties of the resulting devices, and establishing methods to control and improve the organic/inorganic interfaces these materials create. The award includes professional development activities for early-career researchers and demonstrations of novel transparent conductors intended for broad dissemination of the research concepts.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $400.0k | 7/29/26 |