Project Grant DESC0001879

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...

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 $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 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 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation will support the development of flexible, semitransparent organic solar cell modules tailored for greenhouse glazing integration by Polypv LLC. Funded under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084), the $256,000 award issued on May 15, 2023 aims to optimize the active layer, electrodes, and encapsulation processes to produce high-performance flexible organic solar cells. The primary objectives are to develop...

This $524,480 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research at New York University (NYU) on developing novel semiconductor crystal materials and manufacturing processes for advanced optoelectronic applications. The key focus is on understanding how to fabricate "twisted" organic semiconductor crystals that can spontaneously form into aligned networks, enabling them to outperform single crystal materials in properties like...

This $185,304 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Directorate (CFDA 47.041) supports research by St. Mary's College of Maryland to develop low-cost, printable metal contacts to enable the fabrication of fully printed, all-inorganic cadmium telluride (CdTe) photovoltaic (PV) devices. The project aims to identify printable anode and cathode metals to achieve high-efficiency printed solar cells at a fraction of the cost of conventional PV. Key activities...

This $131,977 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at the University of Colorado Boulder to develop new dimeric molecular n- and p-dopants and apply them in organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). The research aims to understand the mechanism, scope, practicalities, and limitations of using photoactivation to extend the effective strength of dimeric n-dopants for OLED applications beyond their thermodynamic limits. Researchers will synthesize and characterize new dopants,...

The University of Houston received a $2,000,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E), CFDA 81.135, to scale up its advanced metal organic chemical vapor deposition (A-MOCVD) process and manufacture 600-meter-long REBCO conductors. The project aims to develop low-cost, high-rate fabrication of high-performance, uniform REBCO conductors that demonstrate 5x the critical current of today's industry tapes. The project period is from January 16, 2024...

The Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) awarded Metox International, Inc. a $3,000,000 cooperative agreement on May 1, 2024 to develop low-cost MOCVD HTS wire technology. This award supports Metox's efforts to dramatically lower the manufacturing costs of high-temperature superconducting (HTS) wire by improving equipment throughput, material efficiency, and wire performance. The goal is to ensure a large domestic supply of low-cost HTS wire that can enable...