Project Grant FA23862314012

This $400,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Human Resource Development supports research exploring strongly coupled spin-photon systems with dense ensembles of nitrogen-vacancy and silicon-divacancy color centers in diamond. Funded under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), the two-year award aims to reach the strong coupling regime between defect-excitations, cavities, and photons in diamond. Analytical and numerical methods will be used to inverse design...

This $1,634,839 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to revolutionize live-cell imaging by harnessing nanodiamond quantum sensing technology. The project, titled "QUSEC-TAQS: Nanodiamond Quantum Sensing for Four-Dimensional Live-Cell Imaging", will develop highly sensitive nanodiamond quantum sensors to study fundamental biological mechanisms with unprecedented detail. By integrating nanodiamond quantum sensing...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences awarded a $1,482,618 Project Grant to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to develop a next-generation charge-coupled device (CCD) image sensor optimized for astronomical spectroscopy. The project aims to demonstrate the ability to readout a 4096x4096 pixel CCD image in a few minutes instead of hours, which will significantly improve the...

Applied Diamond, Inc. was awarded a $206,380 project grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop a diamond detector system for ion-beam diagnostics. The grant-funded project will support the design and testing of an innovative diamond-based detector that can be used to characterize the properties of ion beams with unprecedented resolution. This detector system aligns with the Office of Science's mission...

Euclid Beamlabs LLC was awarded a $205,478 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science on June 28, 2021 to support work on "RADIATION TOLERANT DIAMOND GAIN STRUCTURES FOR PHOTON DETECTION" through May 31, 2022. The award was made under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), which supports scientific discoveries and tools to transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy and economic security. Specifically, the grant funding will...

This federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Eye Institute (NEI) under the Vision Research program (CFDA 93.867), supports research into the molecular mechanisms regulating the assembly of the color vision circuit in the Drosophila visual system. The $154,332 award will fund a two-year project at New York University to characterize the stochastically specified Y/P photoreceptor subtypes and their synaptic partners in the optic lobe, as well as identify the molecules required for...

This $305,000 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) under the Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health program (CFDA 93.286) is funding the development of a miniature diamond quantum sensor for magnetoencephalography (MEG) imaging. The goal is to create a lower-cost, high-resolution brain imaging system to study neurological disorders like traumatic brain injury, schizophrenia, and epilepsy....

This Project Grant award from the National Eye Institute (NEI), under the Vision Research federal grant program (CFDA 93.867), aims to develop an advanced optical recording system capable of capturing the full electrical dynamics of large ensembles of neurons in the cortex and hippocampus of awake, behaving rodents. The $259,095 award will fund the design and demonstration of a novel ultra-high-speed volumetric imaging system that utilizes structured one-photon excitation and light field...

This $380,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems under CFDA Program 47.041 (Engineering) will fund the development of new types of on-chip "topological photodetectors" that can detect and differentiate between different modes and properties of light, such as its phase, polarization, and orbital angular momentum. These novel photodetectors, based on emerging quantum materials like Weyl semimetals,...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $304,987 to Clearview Optics LLC aims to develop highly sensitive optical detectors capable of sensing single photons at room temperature. The project will demonstrate a plasmonic metasurface-based coherent optical detection approach that can overcome the fundamental quantum shot noise limitation of existing coherent detection technologies. If successful, this innovation could...