Project Grant FA23862114032

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $600,000 Project Grant to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) on September 29, 2023. The grant will support Caltech's research on "ON-CHIP QUADRATIC SOLITONS: ENABLING FEW-CYCLE FREQUENCY COMBS FROM VISIBLE TO MID-INFRARED" over a 4-year performance period ending on September 28, 2027. The objective of this fundamental research project is to advance enabling...

This Project Grant award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory provides $100,000 to fund basic research activities under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) from March 2021 through March 2022. The research, titled "Generation of Highly Entangled States of Light Based on Quantum Optical Frequency Comb," will be conducted by the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in South Korea. The Air Force Defense...

This $392,098 National Science Foundation award under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program will fund research to establish new theoretical foundations for active metamaterial transmission lines (MTLs) that can control the amplitude and phase of electromagnetic waves. The goal is to develop transformative transmission line technology to address increasing demands for enhanced data capacity, higher spatial resolution, multi-functionality, and smaller circuit and system dimensions in microwave...

The Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command awarded a $196,650 Project Grant to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) to support research in quantum state engineering with networks of optical parametric oscillators. The award period runs from February 1, 2022 through January 31, 2023. Under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431), Caltech will conduct basic research to improve Army programs and operations through developing...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems provides $213,879 to support research understanding and exploiting non-linear behavior of phase-change materials for millimeter-wave applications. The award period is from September 1, 2021 through January 31, 2024. The grantee, Georgia Tech Research Corporation, will conduct research on behalf of the principal investigator to analyze phase-change materials' non-linear properties...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded a $550,000 Project Grant under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley. The grant period runs from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2026. The goal of the research project is to explore low-cost integrated circuit technology for next-generation 240 GHz multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) radar...

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...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $450,000 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) to develop a novel chip-scale silicon photonics (SiP) millimeter-wave (mm-wave) channelizer with ultra-wide bandwidth, dynamic tuning, ultra-fast channelization, and interferer tolerance capabilities. The project aims to integrate SiP components with nanometer CMOS circuitry to generate optical frequency combs with flat...

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $298,160 Project Grant to Northwestern University under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to develop a broadband, variable repetition rate ultrafast laser. This laser will be used to differentiate nonthermal reaction pathways in model plasmonic photocatalysts. The project will run from April 1, 2025 to March 31, 2026. The research aims to maintain technological superiority for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force by...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) received a $420,000 three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems through the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041). The grant will fund research to develop a novel spin torque oscillator maser device enabled by spin-microwave photon coupling. The device aims to generate coherent microwave signals with superior performance compared to existing technologies. If...