Project Grant DESC0023549

Direct Electron, L.P. received a $205,809 project grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on February 21, 2023 to fund research and development activities through February 20, 2024. The grant was awarded under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA #81.049), which supports scientific discoveries and tools to transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy security and economic competitiveness. Specifically, the funding will support Direct...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $289,692 Cooperative Agreement under the CHIPS Research and Development (CFDA 11.042) program to Direct Electron, L.P., a small disadvantaged business in San Diego, California. The purpose of the award is for Direct Electron to develop a new high-speed, high-resolution camera system for electron backscatter diffraction (HR EBSD) and transmission Kikuchi diffraction (TKD) measurements in scanning electron microscopes. The...

This $324,955 Project Grant awarded on May 15, 2025 by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) will fund the acquisition of a Dell PowerEdge XE9680 8X H100 NVIDIA GPU server for the University of Pittsburgh's Center for Biologic Imaging (CBI). The GPU server will significantly enhance the CBI's computational capabilities to process and analyze large image datasets generated by advanced imaging technologies like ribbon scanning confocal...

Gigajot Technology, Inc. received a $248,834 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA #81.049) to develop an ultra-sensitive dual fluorescence and bright field imaging lensless microscopy system using a novel Quanta image sensor for bio-imaging. The six-month project period ran from February to August 2021. The system aimed to provide advanced bio-imaging capabilities without the need for traditional...

This $300,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports the development of a new optical microscopy technology called "Space-Time-Pulsed Engineered-Excitation for Diffraction-Free Imaging (SPEEDI)." The technology utilizes exotic space-time wave packets to enable high-resolution fluorescence imaging of deep brain tissue without the light scrambling issues of conventional microscopy. The research aims to advance imaging...

This $1.1 million Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will fund the acquisition of a magnetic-field-free atomic-resolution scanning transmission electron microscope at the University of Illinois at Chicago from September 2022 through August 2025. The microscope's novel lens design provides a magnetic-field-free sample region allowing for atomic-resolution imaging and chemical analysis of quantum materials such as magnetic,...

This $150,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), will support the development of GPU-accelerated first-principles simulation techniques to model exciton dynamics in complex materials systems over three years. Led by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the collaborative research effort will implement novel methods for describing quantum-mechanical...

This $899,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports the acquisition of a specialized high-performance computing (HPC) cluster with state-of-the-art graphical processing units (GPUs) at Princeton University. The instrument will enable transformative research and education across diverse disciplines such as chemistry, neuroscience, and sustainable energy solutions by providing researchers...

Euclid Techlabs, LLC was awarded a $199,940 project grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science on February 22, 2021 to develop an open-source based data management and processing framework on a central server for electron microscopy. The project supports the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program, officially known as the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA #81.049), which aims to deliver scientific discoveries and tools to transform understanding of nature and...

This two-year National Science Foundation project grant of $137,683 aims to enhance the reliability and privacy of graphics processing unit (GPU)-based deep learning computing. Funded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program, the award supports research at West Virginia University to address vulnerabilities in GPU architecture and design lightweight protection schemes. Specifically, the university researchers will explore vulnerabilities impacting GPU-based deep...