Project Grant FA86551115040

This $523,635 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports research at Colgate University to explore techniques for creating novel three-dimensional light patterns that have potential applications in biomedical imaging, communications, and quantum metrology. The principal investigator and undergraduate research team will investigate how manipulating the degrees of freedom in light, such as polarization and...

Kent State University was awarded a $1,023,770 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support research on structure-property relationships of new polar liquid crystalline phases. Over a three-year period from July 2022 to June 2025, the University will synthesize novel mesogens exhibiting bent core, bimesogen, and twisted core molecular geometries. Researchers will characterize the liquid crystal phases formed and...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary La Luce Cristallina, Inc. received a $1,210,801 Cooperative Agreement award dated September 15, 2025, from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) to develop and commercialize foundry-compatible 200-millimeter wafers of barium titanate (BaTiO₃) integrated on silicon for silicon photonics applications. The award supports the company's SBIR Phase II project, which scales manufacturing...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) program, with an estimated value of $325,000 over 3 years starting December 1, 2023, will fund research on the properties and behaviors of complex liquid crystal materials. The Regents of the University of Minnesota will conduct theoretical and computational studies to investigate the morphology, topological defects, and non-equilibrium transport in lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals....

This STTR Phase I project, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program, aims to transition the Ti:Sapphire-on-Insulator (Ti:SaOI) platform from an academic demonstration to a wafer-scale, CMOS-foundry compatible process. The $275,000 award, with a performance period from February 15, 2025 to October 31, 2025, will enable the scalable production of integrated Ti:Sapphire lasers and amplifiers in the wavelength range...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research (Mathematical and Physical Sciences program, CFDA 47.049) awarded $665,575 to the University of Wisconsin–Madison on April 1, 2026, for a collaborative research project on the rational design of tunable anisotropic chalcogenides for optics. This four-year initiative (completion date: March 31, 2030) involves a collaborative research partnership between U.S. and German institutions (DFG partner)...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary Award: Myrias Optics Inc. received a $1.555M Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Fast-Track cooperative agreement from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084), effective October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2028. The project aims to develop and commercialize polarization-controlled metasurfaces—ultra-thin optical materials with nanoscale structures that manipulate light in ways...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics Project Grant award for $392,935 supports research to perform optical and infrared spectroscopy of neutral thulium atoms trapped in solidified noble gas solids, also known as cryocrystals. The project aims to uncover the complete energy level diagram for thulium atoms in solid argon and neon, which could enable using their unique properties as probes of the local environment at the nanometer scale or as entangled elements in a quantum...

Raytum Photonics LLC was awarded a $199,995 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop a broadband low aberration composite magnet sextupole lens. The Office of Science's mission is to deliver scientific discoveries and major scientific tools to transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy security and economic competitiveness. Under this February 2022 award concluding in November...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I Project Grant award to La Luce Cristallina, Inc. provides $274,997 to address critical technical challenges in scaling up barium titanate on silicon technology for photonic integrated circuits. The key products and services to be delivered under this 1-year project include: Developing a process to mitigate the thermal stress that arises from integrating barium titanate, an optical material, with silicon...