The Department of Energy (DOE), through its Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), awarded a $464,000 Project Grant to Cornell University to conduct "TESTING OF POLARIZED AND UNPOLARIZED PHOTOCATHODES WITH HIGH AVERAGE CURRENT AT THE ENHANCED HERACLES FACILITY AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY." The award period is from November 1, 2024, to October 31, 2025. The project will focus on advancing scientific research and technological capabilities related to photocathode testing...
The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $399,843 Project Grant to Cornell University under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to support the "Collaborative: Chiral Control of Nanocluster-Fiber Architectures via Confined Evaporative Assembly" research project. The project aims to develop innovative approaches to controlling the assembly of nanoscale materials into chiral fiber architectures, which can enable new capabilities in areas such...
The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $700,000 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to Cornell University. The grant, awarded on August 15, 2024, supports a project titled "Transient Microstructures Inspired by Mycorrhizal Fungi Arbuscules" with a period of performance from August 15, 2024 to August 14, 2026. The project aims to conduct fundamental scientific research on transient microstructures inspired by mycorrhizal...
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science has awarded a $472,000 Project Grant to the Old Dominion University Research Foundation (Odurf) to fabricate spin polarized electron sources with high polarization and quantum efficiency (QE) for the DOE Nuclear Physics (NP) program. The award, with a performance period from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2026, is funded under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), which supports fundamental scientific research...
The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $206,500 Project Grant to Xelera Research LLC under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop beam transport insensitive electron spin rotators for nuclear physics applications. The award, which commenced on February 18, 2025, supports advanced research and development of specialized particle beam technologies that can enable new capabilities in nuclear physics research. Xelera Research, a small business...
The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $250,000 Project Grant (CFDA 81.049 - Office of Science Financial Assistance Program) to Qrona Technologies LLC, a small business in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, to develop a high-resolution and fast, full-field transmission X-ray microscope for real-time in-vivo imaging. The project has an award date of February 18, 2025 and a targeted completion date of November 17, 2025. Qrona Technologies LLC has also received prior federal grant awards from...
The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $200,000 Project Grant (CFDA 81.049) to Qrona Technologies LLC, a small business located in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, to develop low-cost, high-efficiency, and ultrafast broadband VUV-IR photon-counting hybrid photodetectors. This research project aims to advance semiconductor and photonic technologies, particularly in the areas of ultraviolet photon-counting and imaging applications. The award period runs from February 18, 2025, to...
The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $256,499 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to Pospea, LLC, a small disadvantaged business located in Pittsford, NY. The grant, awarded on February 18, 2025, supports research on "Quantum Enhanced Bioimaging and Sensing via Strong Quantum Entanglement on Chip". The project aims to advance fundamental scientific research in quantum information science, with a focus on developing...
This $446,173 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program will support research at Cornell University to investigate defects in gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductors with potential applications in quantum sensing. The research aims to study the optical and spin properties of isolated defects in GaN, including how they interact with the local electronic and nuclear environment. The goal is to lay the scientific and...
The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science awarded a $779,000 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to Cornell University. The grant, awarded on September 1, 2024, will fund a project titled "Harnessing the Power of Machine Learning in an Accelerator Simulation Toolkit for Optimization and Automated Operation" with a period of performance through August 31, 2026. The project aims to leverage machine learning techniques to optimize...