Project Grant DESC0025387

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $1,000,000 to Iris Light Technologies Inc., a small business in Chicago, Illinois, to develop foundry-scale production of on-chip silicon photonic light emitters enabled by printed photonic ink. The project aims to create black phosphorus-based inks that can be integrated directly onto silicon photonic chips to produce on-chip lasers. This...

This Project Grant award of $631,792 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to develop material processes and devices that maximize the ferroelectric performance and endurance of trench capacitors for energy-efficient data storage. The key technical objectives are to: 1) Demonstrate non-planar, hafnia-based devices exhibiting greater than 10^15 switching endurance under back-end-of-line semiconductor processing conditions, and 2) Develop a...

This Project Grant award of $305,000.00 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports the development of an advanced plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition (PEALD) processing technology using nanosecond pulse power. The goal is to advance semiconductor manufacturing by providing cutting-edge technology to produce super-thin, high-quality coatings for advanced semiconductor chips. The technology uses rapid, controlled bursts of...

This Project Grant award of $450,000.00 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research led by Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) to develop a transformative paradigm for the design of single-photon detection and imaging technologies. The key research objectives include: Establishing a scientific framework to explain "avalanche confinement" in single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs), which can yield improved signal-to-noise ratio without...

This one-year Project Grant award of $129,198 from the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431) aims to establish a roadmap for efficient two-photon devices using III-nitride semiconductor-based 2D nanosheets as the gain media in high-Q microcavities. The key objectives are to pursue the epitaxy, nanofabrication, modeling, and characterization of the nano-beam architectures. This research effort seeks to expand...

This $220,000 EAGER grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems supports research into the creation of atom-like defects in semiconductor materials for the development of single-photon emitters at telecommunications wavelengths. The project aims to implant elements such as vanadium and erbium into silicon carbide and aluminum gallium nitride films to form optically active defects that emit at 1.3 and 1.55 micron wavelengths....

This $260,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports a collaborative effort by researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Texas at Austin to develop new materials for advanced computer chips. The key objectives are to: (1) design novel indium-based extreme ultraviolet (EUV) resists using computational and machine learning tools; (2) synthesize...

This $499,999 Project Grant was awarded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), a civilian agency under the U.S. Department of Energy, to Fuceltech Inc. dba Princeton Innotech. The purpose of this award under ARPA-E's SPARKS program (DE-FOA-0003164) is to develop the next generation of high-power diode pump lasers to increase pulse energy density for inertial confinement fusion (ICF) research conducted by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). Specifically, the goal...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded a $430,000 Project Grant to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville to develop scalable single photon detection systems. The 3-year project seeks to adapt existing perimeter gated single photon avalanche diode (PGSPAD) technology to other semiconductor platforms, create a scalable detection architecture with wireless integration, and test the new devices through fabrication and simulation....

This $390,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of novel biophotonic computing devices through the Engineering Directorate's 47.041 Engineering program. Specifically, the principal investigator aims to create a flexible, sustainable platform for bio-photonic thin film transistors using cellulose-nanocrystals with chiral nematic organization and responsive photonic behavior. Over the two-year period from September 15, 2022 to August 31, 2025, the grantee,...