The Department of Energy's Office of Science has awarded a $118,938 project grant to The Leland Stanford Junior University, doing business as Stanford University, to conduct "EXPERIMENTS AND SIMULATIONS OF THE DUSTY PROPERTIES OF HYPERVELOCITY IMPACT PLASMAS". The award, funded under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), will support research at Stanford University from August 1, 2023 through July 31, 2024. The project aims to advance scientific...
The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $900,000 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to The Trustees of Princeton University. The grant, awarded on September 1, 2024, supports a one-year project to develop diffractive plasma optics for spatiotemporal control and contrast improvement of high-power, high-energy laser beams. Princeton University will collaborate with Stanford University and the University of Rochester on this...
This federal Project Grant award for $685,000.00, provided by the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), supports research at Princeton University to advance the control and chemistry of non-equilibrium plasma formation using ferroelectric electrodes and hybrid discharge techniques. The research aims to develop more efficient manufacturing processes through innovative plasma science and engineering. The award period runs from September 1, 2024...
The University of Michigan was awarded a $150,000 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to support research titled "DYNAMIC STRUCTURE OF MAGNETIZED HIGH ENERGY DENSITY PLASMAS" from August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2023. The Office of Science's mission is to deliver scientific discoveries and tools that transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy security and economic...
The Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) has awarded a $600,000 Project Grant to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to characterize magnetic field compression and magnetization effects in cylindrically imploded plasmas. This 3-year research project, which runs from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2027, aims to study the extended-MHD effects that impact the compressed magnetic field and magnetized core structure at high plasma densities....
This federal Project Grant award, valued at $499,999.00, was provided by the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to The Leland Stanford Junior University. The award, effective from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2025, will fund research on the "Genetic Diversity of Human Heart Responses to Low-Dose Radiation". As a prestigious private research institution, Stanford University will leverage its expertise in scientific research across...
The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded a $150,000 Project Grant to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to support the project "EXPLORATION OF RAYLEIGH-TAYLOR SEEDING MECHANISMS IN LASER- AND PULSED-POWER-DRIVEN INERTIAL FUSION PLATFORMS" from August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2023. The Office of Science's mission is to deliver scientific discoveries and tools that advance energy technologies...
The Department of Energy awarded a $183,000 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to Appalachian State University. The award supports fundamental scientific research on the "Charging of Dust in the Afterglow of a Magnetized Plasma" over a 1-year period from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2025. The research will involve collaboration between the principal investigator at Appalachian State University and a co-PI at the University of Iowa,...
This federal Project Grant award from the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) provides $600,000 in funding to the Regents of the University of Michigan to conduct advanced laser-plasma electron acceleration research. The key objectives are to: 1) optimize high-energy electron acceleration from the interaction of a relativistic laser pulse with an underdense plasma target, including studying channel formation in the plasma, and 2) investigate...
The Stanford University was awarded a $398,441 project grant from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to support research and development in the area of physics under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The three-year award, made on September 15, 2021 and set to be completed by September 14, 2024, will fund R&D activities in scientific areas relevant to Air Force needs, with the goal of maintaining U.S. technological superiority and...