Project Grant FA23861810062

This $244,955 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports theoretical and computational research to develop advanced computational tools and use them for describing the dynamical behavior of magnetic molecules connected to external electrodes and manipulated by magnetic fields. The research aims to provide a balance between computational efficiency and physical accuracy in simulating such open...

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 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $480,014 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2026. The funding supports research to engineer novel magnetic garnet thin film materials through interface and site occupancy control. Key objectives include developing magnetic garnet superlattices, films with ordered rare...

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...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation will fund the establishment of a versatile magnetic property measurement system at Florida State University totaling $219,404. The system will facilitate studies of magnetic behavior across different length scales and conditions, impacting areas such as inorganic and organic chemistry, condensed matter physics, chemical physics, and materials science. As part of the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program, it will support research and...

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) Division of Materials Research, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $168,312 to William Marsh Rice University to conduct collaborative research on understanding and manipulating magnetism and spin dynamics in two-dimensional intercalated van der Waals magnets. The key objectives of the project are to: 1) establish precisely controlled intercalation-magnetism relations and create a phase...

This $750,000 Project Grant award from the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) will support research on ferrimagnetic materials for fast nanoscale information processing. The primary awardee, the University of Central Florida, will conduct fundamental and applied research on the design, synthesis, and characterization of novel ferrimagnetic thin film samples. This includes growth, structural analysis, and measurement of the magnetic...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) supports research on novel spin textures in non-centrosymmetric magnetic materials at Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU), Norfolk State University, and Rice University. The $950,566 award will fund the synthesis and characterization of materials such as SCTMGe (TM = Fe, Mn, Co, Ni, Cu), Mn-doped SCFeGe, and chiral magnetic oxides. Key objectives include determining 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...