Project Grant FA86551210003

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering Directorate (NSF ENG) totaling $161,597 will support research at Troy University from February 2022 to January 2024 to develop a new all-optical plasmonic switch for data processing. The proposed switch utilizes thermo-opto-electronic control of propagating surface plasmon modes at metal-doped semiconductor interfaces via localized surface plasmon resonances excited at plasmonic structures. The research will employ...

The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded the University of Texas at Dallas a $450,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to develop smart photochromic electronic devices. Professor Michael C. Biewer and students will synthesize novel light-activated organic semiconducting materials incorporating a bicyclic aziridine photochromic unit. They will attach this unit as a pendant group to donor-acceptor-donor small molecules based on...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), provides $149,503 to Purdue University and the University of St. Thomas to support collaborative research on photoswitchable interlayer exciton devices from two-dimensional hybrid heterostructures through August 2025. The universities will investigate modulating the formation and behavior of interlayer excitons in atomically thin...

This $330,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems and Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports collaborative research between Purdue University and the University of St. Thomas focused on investigating two-dimensional (2D) materials and developing photoswitchable interlayer exciton devices. Key activities include constructing 2D heterostructured hybrid devices from transition metal dichalcogenides and photochromic...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will provide $402,134 from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027 to support research and development of a novel class of semiconductor nanostructures called non-Hermitian topological photonic crystals. The key products and services to be delivered include: Designing, fabricating, and characterizing the optical properties and optoelectronic device applications of these photonic crystal slabs,...

This $524,480 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research at New York University (NYU) on developing novel semiconductor crystal materials and manufacturing processes for advanced optoelectronic applications. The key focus is on understanding how to fabricate "twisted" organic semiconductor crystals that can spontaneously form into aligned networks, enabling them to outperform single crystal materials in properties like...

The National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research awarded $320,000 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a collaborative research project on combinatorial solution processing of optical phase change materials. The researchers will develop a high-throughput synthesis and characterization paradigm for accelerated discovery and customization of multi-component phase change alloy thin films tailored for...

The University of Pittsburgh was awarded a $225,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems to demonstrate an active optical device that exploits the unique properties of phase-change and two-dimensional materials. The project aims to develop novel phase-change materials and microheaters composed of low-dimensional materials such as graphene that are transparent in the visible spectrum and compatible with any substrate. This...

This three-year, $222,122 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at Stony Brook University to develop new two-dimensional ferroelectric nonlinear metasurface holograms. The goal is to explore atomically thin 2D ferroelectric materials for reconfigurable holographic beam generation and image reconstruction with high conversion efficiency. The research team will design, fabricate, and experimentally characterize 2D ferroelectric holograms to demonstrate nonlinear optical...

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,...