Project Grant DESC0021896

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) provides $650,000 to Georgia Tech Research Corporation from October 2022 to September 2025. The award will fund research into low-temperature embedded memory devices for near-memory and in-memory computing applications. Specifically, the grantee will characterize resistive random-access memory, ferroelectric field-effect transistors, and two-transistor gain-cell...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $400,000 to Northeastern University from February 1, 2025 to January 31, 2030. The project aims to develop energy-efficient, low-cost, and compact cryogenic chips that enable scaling quantum systems to support thousands of qubits. The research focuses on advancing cryogenic complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) integrated circuits for qubit control pulse generation and...

The University of Chicago received a $488,120 Project Grant award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory on September 1, 2022 to fund development of a Dilution Cryostat for Quantum Addressable Memory through August 31, 2023. The grant was awarded under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), which aims to maintain technological superiority in scientific areas relevant to Air Force needs and prevent technological surprise. Funds will...

This two-year, $297,189 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research aims to develop new approaches for ultra-low temperature refrigeration without reliance on rare helium isotopes. Specifically, researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will investigate using electrically-tunable spin-orbit interactions in Rashba materials to achieve refrigeration through adiabatic electrification, with a goal of reaching temperatures as low as 0.01 K. If successful,...

The National Science Foundation awarded Virginia Commonwealth University a $800,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to develop energy efficient quantum control of robust spin ensemble qubits. The three-year award will support research to simulate and demonstrate highly localized control of qubits using nanomagnets driven by electric fields at spin qubit Larmor frequencies. This aims to implement single-qubit quantum gates with high fidelities...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of Minnesota under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The two-year award will support research into developing new approaches for vertically coupling and cross-talk shielding of superconducting quantum devices. Specifically, the grantee will fabricate high-quality Josephson junction arrays and link them vertically via microwave waveguide arrays. This integrated manufacturing approach...

This $2.46 million project grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will fund research into interconnected superconducting and color center qubits in silicon devices from September 2021 through August 2025. The University of California, Berkeley will lead efforts to design high kinetic inductance superconducting devices using disordered superconducting alloys for insensitivity to light fields and coupling microwave fields to mechanical modes....

This $359,500 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of scalable three-terminal memory devices based on silicon-compatible antiferromagnetic materials at Northwestern University from June 2022 through May 2025. The university aims to design, fabricate, and characterize nonvolatile memory devices utilizing conductive antiferromagnetic materials like Mn3Sn, Mn3Ga, and IrMn3 that can be sputter deposited on silicon substrates. The project will demonstrate electrical read...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $433,454 to the University of Florida to develop novel quantum spintronic devices for quantum computing applications. The key products and services to be delivered under this 5-year award include: Creating magnetic transistors and diodes that utilize stable magnetic skyrmion structures to enable quantum effects like superposition and entanglement. This aims to produce quantum...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award of $550,000 to the Regents of the University of Colorado will support research to develop reliable superconducting quantum processors. The principal investigator will engineer "Fourier qubits" that are resistant to decoherence, demonstrating their logical operation and scalability in proof-of-concept experimental devices. The research will evolve along two paths: 1) engineering multi-mode...