Project Grant DESC0025005

This Project Grant award of $532,245.00 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Chemistry, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, supports research by Professors Jin Zhang of the University of California, Santa Cruz and Yuan Ping of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The researchers are using advanced computational and laser techniques to study the behavior of electron spin in two-dimensional (2D) lead-free metal halide double perovskites. This...

This three-year, $485,084 National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research Project Grant will support research into emergent quantum phenomena through muon spin relaxation, neutron scattering, and scanning tunneling microscopy experiments. Led by researchers at Columbia University, the project aims to elucidate charge-spin interplays in unconventional superconductors and Mott transition systems through measurements of superfluid density, dynamic spin fluctuations, order parameters, and...

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 NSF Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) Project Grant award of $300,000 to Brown University will support a research infrastructure improvement project focused on developing an experimental method to directly probe the configuration of electron spins in 2D materials like multilayer graphene. The key objectives are to: 1) establish a user program located in Rhode Island to provide research and intern opportunities for students, thereby training the state's quantum workforce, and 2)...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports theoretical research and educational activities aimed at understanding quantum magnetic materials and their applications in spintronics. The $532,567 award to the University of Delaware will investigate how quantum entanglement effects can be leveraged to advance spin-based technologies, such as magnetic random access memories and neuromorphic computing. The...

This $279,854 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will support research at The Ohio State University to develop new spintronic material platforms for energy-efficient memory and computing applications. The investigators will focus on heterostructures consisting of ultrathin ferrimagnetic insulator films and adjacent metallic layers. They will grow and characterize high-quality bilayer films to optimize properties for applications by...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program provides $480,000 to the University of Southern California (USC) to develop novel nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy techniques using quantum sensing technology. Specifically, the USC research team led by Susumu Takahashi is creating new approaches to high-field NMR spectroscopy that leverage nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond to dramatically...

This National Science Foundation project grant of $458,519 supports research at The Pennsylvania State University from June 2022 to May 2025 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). Professor Knappenberger and his students will study how the structure of metal nanoclusters and the vibrational motion of their atoms affects electron spin dynamics. They will correlate electron spin lifetimes with specific vibrational modes using iterative magnetic field laser spectroscopy...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry has awarded a $375,000 Project Grant to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) for the "Design and Implementation of Hyperdimensional Scanning Tunneling Microscopy" project. Dr. Shaowei Li and his team are developing a new microscopy technique called Hyperdimensional Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (HD-STM) to study the ultrafast dynamics of electrons and...

This Project Grant award of $700,000 from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports research and educational initiatives in quantum information science and engineering (QISE) at Hunter College, in collaboration with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the University of Maryland. The key objectives are to develop electrically tunable persistent spin helixes and understand their exchange interactions with defect spin qubits, as a novel approach for quantum...