Project Grant DESC0024773

This $300,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of a new sub-kelvin refrigerator using superfluid helium vortex cooling. Funded under the Engineering (47.041) program, Yale University will analyze, design, build a prototype, and benchmark a two-stage cooling system combining a superfluid vortex cooler and Joule-Thomson precooler. The system aims to achieve high-capacity cooling below 1K without using helium-3, addressing stockpile depletion issues. By...

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,...

Raytum Photonics LLC was awarded a $199,993 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop a low insertion loss high power cryogenic Faraday isolator for carbon dioxide wavelengths. The isolator will allow for more efficient transmission of laser light for scientific applications such as spectroscopy. The Office of Science seeks to advance scientific understanding and energy technologies through...

The National Science Foundation awarded $275,000 under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships federal grant program (CFDA 47.084) to Kazadi Enterprises LTD to develop a Hydrologic Open Cooling System. The project aims to create a renewable, closed container cooling system incorporating rechargeable vacuum insulation and a novel two-stage heat pump. The system is designed to maintain cooling chamber temperatures between 1.5-5 degrees Celsius using 10% or less of the electrical power of...

Global Cooling Technology Group LLC received a $296,000 Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084). The grant supports research and development of innovative two-phase cooling technologies using micro closed loop pulsating heat pipes for applications in high power density electronics. The STTR program aims to stimulate technological innovation through cooperative...

Euclid Beamlabs LLC received a $196,567 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on February 22, 2021 to develop an ultra-low vibration closed-cycle cryostat for X-ray applications. The cryostat was intended to support the Office of Science's mission of delivering scientific discoveries and tools that transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy and economic security. Specifically, the cryostat was designed to enable new X-ray experiments by maintaining...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $298,856 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of Michigan under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) for the period of October 1, 2022 through September 30, 2024. The grant funds the development of superconducting tunnel junction-based solid-state refrigeration to enable cooling from 1 K to sub-100 mK temperatures. Successful demonstration of high cooling rates and temperatures as low as 100 mK would dramatically impact quantum technologies...

Impact Cooling Inc. was awarded a $500,000 Project Grant from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) to develop a novel high-density data center cooling solution. The two-year award, made under Funding Opportunity Announcement DE-FOA-0001954 on September 30, 2022, will support Impact Cooling's proposed use of jet impingement cooling technology to achieve dramatically improved heat transfer efficiency using only air. If successful, this technology could...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $225,000 two-year Project Grant to Stanford University under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will support research into developing materials and techniques to enable sub-kelvin cooling via adiabatic decompression of para-nematic materials. Specifically, Stanford University researchers will identify and characterize rare earth compound materials with thermoelastic properties suitable for cryogenic cooling without...

This National Science Foundation project grant of $150,000 supports research at the University of Connecticut to develop a new solid-state millikelvin quantum elastocaloric adiabatic refrigeration technology. Funded under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), the two-year award running from January 2023 to December 2024 will realize a cooling cycle achieved via periodic application of elastic strain/stress, without or with small magnetic field, on frustrated magnet materials. Researchers will...