Project Grant DESC0025619

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), provides $149,503 to Purdue University and the University of St. Thomas to support collaborative research on photoswitchable interlayer exciton devices from two-dimensional hybrid heterostructures through August 2025. The universities will investigate modulating the formation and behavior of interlayer excitons in atomically thin...

Professor Yuhuang Wang of the University of Maryland College Park will use a $488,482 National Science Foundation project grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program to control the synthesis and placement of organic color centers on single-walled carbon nanotubes. Over three years, Professor Wang and his team will covalently attach small functional groups to carbon nanotubes to create model defect color centers. They will study how these organic color centers can be generated,...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $250,000 to the University of Washington to develop a hybrid device that couples excitons in a semiconducting moiré superlattice to nanophotonic resonators, forming a moiré exciton-polariton platform. The project aims to study the resulting strong light-matter interaction to enable analog quantum simulations and advance quantum nano-optoelectronics. Key deliverables include demonstrating...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) totaling $630,000 aims to develop "synthetic life-like materials and machines" using light-responsive active fluids. The project at Brandeis University will pursue two complementary research aims: Embedding a rigid inclusion in a photo-responsive active nematic liquid crystal to implement hybrid theory-experiment feedback and control the targeted dynamics of the...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award of $431,035 will support the development of novel optical and electronic devices that use unprecedented spatial control of interlayer excitons (IXs) in two-dimensional (2D) semiconductor heterostructures. The overarching objective is to realize devices that can harness quantum effects at higher temperatures for applications in high-speed, low-power optoelectronics and quantum information systems. The...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $1,198,092 will support research at Northwestern University from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2025 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The university will design photonic lattices and multilayer structures that can confine light in small spaces near metal nanostructures and support electrically-driven excitation. Researchers will fabricate new architectures based on multilayer nanoparticle arrays and realize...

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...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering Directorate (NSF ENG) totaling $161,597 will support research at Troy University from February 2022 to January 2024 to develop a new all-optical plasmonic switch for data processing. The proposed switch utilizes thermo-opto-electronic control of propagating surface plasmon modes at metal-doped semiconductor interfaces via localized surface plasmon resonances excited at plasmonic structures. The research will employ...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will provide $402,134 from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027 to support research and development of a novel class of semiconductor nanostructures called non-Hermitian topological photonic crystals. The key products and services to be delivered include: Designing, fabricating, and characterizing the optical properties and optoelectronic device applications of these photonic crystal slabs,...

This $524,480 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research at New York University (NYU) on developing novel semiconductor crystal materials and manufacturing processes for advanced optoelectronic applications. The key focus is on understanding how to fabricate "twisted" organic semiconductor crystals that can spontaneously form into aligned networks, enabling them to outperform single crystal materials in properties like...