Project Grant FA23862514059

This $400,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at Florida State University to develop electrically driven single emissive layer white light emitting diodes (WLEDs) based on solution processable halide perovskites and perovskite-related hybrid materials from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2025. The grant is funded through NSF's Engineering Directorate (ENG) and the CFDA program for Engineering aims to improve engineering research and education. Specifically, the...

This $300,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports collaborative research at Purdue University to understand defect passivation, charge injection, and degradation in ultra-bright halide perovskite light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and lasers. The goal is to develop extremely bright and stable perovskite LEDs that can operate at high current densities over 1,000 mA/cm2 for over 200 hours of lifetime. This research aims to...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), provides $134,855 to Princeton University for research on electrically pumped transient charge-carrier dynamics of metal halide perovskite light-emitting diodes. The University will study the transient charge-carrier dynamics of metal halide perovskite LEDs under ultrashort electrical excitation to advance understanding of their...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities program project grant award provides $300,000 to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) to conduct research on integrated photonic platforms leveraging solution-processed wide-bandgap cesium lead halide perovskites. The 2-year project, starting January 1, 2025, aims to advance the understanding of perovskite crystal growth and patterning synthesis, as well as develop cost-effective integrated photonic devices that can enable...

Through a $489,703 award under the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), Professor Dong Hee Son at Texas A&M University is investigating the use of dark excitons in lead halide perovskite nanocrystals to generate light and charge carriers with controllable quantum properties. The research team is exploring the energy and relaxation dynamics of single- and bi-exciton states formed from dark excitons, as well as the emission of correlated...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) Project Grant award of $420,000 to the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) supports the development of stable and efficient electroluminescent devices based on 3D/0D perovskite bulk/nanocrystal emission layers. The project aims to address the stability issues of perovskite-based electronic devices such as LEDs and solar cells by creating heterostructures composed of perovskite nanocrystals embedded in a...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program provides $310,520 to The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) to develop a new class of quantum emitters based on in-plane two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) quantum dots embedded within wafer-scale continuous monolayer sheets. The research encompasses studies to tune the size, shape, density, and uniformity of the TMD quantum dots, as well as...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's $303,000 Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) funds research at Penn State University from June 2022 to May 2025 related to single photon emission in lanthanide-doped two-dimensional materials and devices. The researchers will evaluate incorporating rare-earth elements like cerium and erbium into two-dimensional semiconductors to enable a quantum optical platform compatible with optical communications. Objectives include controlling doping...

This $196,201 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems will support research into single photon emission in lanthanide-doped two-dimensional materials and devices. The University of Texas at Dallas, in partnership with the University of Texas System, will evaluate the impact of incorporating rare-earth elements like cerium and erbium into two-dimensional semiconductors and explore tuning their properties for controllable light...

This $220,000 EAGER grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems supports research into the creation of atom-like defects in semiconductor materials for the development of single-photon emitters at telecommunications wavelengths. The project aims to implant elements such as vanadium and erbium into silicon carbide and aluminum gallium nitride films to form optically active defects that emit at 1.3 and 1.55 micron wavelengths....