Cooperative Agreement DESC0021879

The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded Charles Howard Sobey of Channelscience COM a $199,971 project grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to support software decoding of legacy tape signals from June 28, 2021 to June 27, 2022. The Office of Science's mission is to deliver scientific discoveries and major scientific tools to transform our understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy and economic security. This project grant funding will allow...

This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems, totaling $250,000, supports collaborative research between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Virginia Commonwealth University under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The grant funds the development of acoustically induced ferromagnetic resonance to assist energy efficient spin torque memory devices. Researchers will work to significantly lower the...

This federal Project Grant award of $216,195 was provided by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) under the NIJ Research, Evaluation, and Development Project Grants program (CFDA 16.560) to Sam Houston State University (SHSU). The grant aims to establish a comprehensive reference collection of 160 electrical tape samples across 10 colors and different end-uses, and to investigate the effects of various casework-relevant alteration sources, including post-blast effects, latent print...

Carnegie Mellon University was awarded a $344,942 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to support research on non-volatile magnetic memory devices utilizing field-free spin-orbit torque switching of perpendicularly polarized magnets. The research aims to demonstrate field-free deterministic magnetization switching of three classes of ferromagnetic materials with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy using electric field-induced out-of-plane spin...

This Project Grant award of $360,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) aims to revolutionize computer memory by developing new materials and devices for high-density magnetic random-access memory (MRAM). The project will address critical challenges in material development and device fabrication for wafer-scale epitaxial van der Waals spin heterostructures, which have the potential to surpass the limitations of conventional...

This NSF-funded project grant, awarded through the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), is focused on developing novel synthesis techniques for thin film magnetic oxides to enable electric and magnetic field tunable high frequency devices. The $390,001 award to Oakland University aims to engineer the magnetic properties of ferrite and garnet films through combinatorial substrate epitaxy in order to eliminate the need for high external magnetic fields and power requirements. The key...

The University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries and Museum will receive $480,885 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museums for America federal grant program to carry out a digitization and cataloging project for an at-risk audiovisual collection held by the Institute of Texan Cultures. Key deliverables include cataloging, rehousing, and moving thousands of collection items to climate-controlled storage; digitizing prioritized at-risk items; and providing practical...

This $390,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at Georgetown University to develop novel high entropy alloy phases with strong magnetic anisotropy for potential application as magnetic recording media. Funded under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), the three-year award will employ an iterative high-throughput approach combining combinatorial thin film synthesis, characterization, simulation and machine learning to efficiently survey the vast compositional...

This SBIR Phase I Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.084 - NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships) in the amount of $304,900.00 on April 15, 2025 supports the development of a machine-learning enabled analog-to-digital converter (ADC) by Magnolia Electronics Inc. The project aims to enhance the scientific and technological understanding of the ADC process by demonstrating a new approach based on machine learning. This approach has the potential to measure...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $275,000 to researchers at the University of California, Berkeley to study the magnetic properties of vanadium-based intercalation compounds of transition metal dichalcogenides. The research aims to elucidate the fundamental structure-property relationships in these materials and explore their potential for next-generation spintronic devices. The project will...