Project Grant DESC0025525

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $275,000 to researchers at the University of California, Berkeley to study the magnetic properties of vanadium-based intercalation compounds of transition metal dichalcogenides. The research aims to elucidate the fundamental structure-property relationships in these materials and explore their potential for next-generation spintronic devices. The project will...

This $483,605 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Materials Research will support a collaborative research effort between the University of Wyoming and Colorado State University. The goal is to explore the unconventional magnetic properties of few-layer two-dimensional van der Waals (2D VDW) magnets, with a focus on investigating metastable magnetic phases, domain behaviors, and mechanisms underlying magnetic switching in these novel materials. The...

This three-year, $566,530 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research at Clemson University focused on synthesizing new materials displaying unusual optical and magnetic properties. Researchers will use high-temperature hydrothermal methods to grow high-quality single crystals of low-dimensional transition metal oxyanions for characterization of their magnetic...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $208,120.00 to Carnegie Mellon University to explore the unique light-matter interaction and emerging properties in individual and stacked atomically thin semiconductors. The key objectives are to: 1) investigate the excitonic physics and many-body effects in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) using advanced optical spectroscopy techniques, and...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering awarded a two-year, $250,000 EAGER grant to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) to explore the development of gate-all-around (GAA) field-effect transistors (FETs) using two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide (2D-TMD) materials. The project aims to advance the scalability and performance of complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) transistors by leveraging the unique properties of 2D-TMDs compared...

This five-year, $597,821 National Science Foundation Project Grant supports research into phase control during the synthesis of two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide materials using metalorganic chemical vapor deposition. Funded through the NSF Engineering Directorate's $47.041 million program, the grantee will develop real-time optical diagnostics to characterize and track the evolution of individual material phases during non-equilibrium growth conditions. Manipulating carrier...

This EAGER award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research supports an integrated computational-experimental approach to better understand the local atomic structure of disordered semiconductor materials. The $199,112 project, awarded to the Colorado School of Mines, focuses on the Ge(1-x)Mn(x)Te system as a model to explore how composition and processing conditions impact the local structure and, consequently, the electronic and thermal properties of these...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) aims to discover new ternary chalcogenide semiconductor materials that can advance optoelectronic applications. The $178,596 project led by Colorado State University will leverage computational modeling and experimental synthesis techniques to stabilize and produce these targeted materials, which have been predicted to exhibit compelling optical and electronic properties...

The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Materials Research awarded Purdue University a $190,936 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program on February 15, 2024. The objective of this 2-year project is to design, synthesize, and characterize a new family of two-dimensional rare-earth transition metal carbide materials called "RE-MXenes." Through a combination of computational modeling and experimental efforts, the researchers aim to...

This Project Grant award of $360,000.00 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program, with a period of performance from May 1, 2025 to April 30, 2028, aims to develop new materials and devices for high-density magnetic random-access memory (MRAM). The project, led by Rutgers, The State University, will focus on creating wafer-scale epitaxial van der Waals spin heterostructures that can enable more efficient switching in MRAM devices. This research seeks...