Project Grant FA86552017013

Under a $388,744 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry's Macromolecular, Supramolecular and Nanochemistry (MSN) Program, Professor Mikhail Zamkov of Bowling Green State University will develop a chemical method to improve the optical performance of semiconductor nanocrystals, making them more suitable for quantum photonic applications such as secure communications, quantum sensors, and advanced computing. The 3-year project aims to stabilize the...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research awarded a $271,852 Project Grant to the University of Arkansas (UA), Fayetteville through the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The goal of this 3-year project is to study and develop a new semiconductor material system based on silicon, germanium, and tin (SiGeSn) alloys. The research will focus on growing SiGeSn in layered stacks with germanium to create quantum wells with engineered electronic...

This three-year, $499,912 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research will support research into developing high-efficiency light emitters from earth abundant elements for optoelectronic technologies. Funded under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program, Virginia Commonwealth University researchers will synthesize low-dimensional silicon-tin and silicon-germanium-tin nanoalloys to produce size and composition tunable nanoparticles with superior...

This $657,685 federal project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports research to investigate the connection between tunneling two-level systems, ultrastability, and ideality in vapor-deposited amorphous chalcogenide alloy films. The research team from the University of California, Berkeley will fabricate and characterize these phase change materials that are important for opto-electronic switches,...

This EAGER award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research supports an integrated computational-experimental approach to better understand the local atomic structure of disordered semiconductor materials. The $199,112 project, awarded to the Colorado School of Mines, focuses on the Ge(1-x)Mn(x)Te system as a model to explore how composition and processing conditions impact the local structure and, consequently, the electronic and thermal properties of these...

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...

This $300,182 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will fund research at Dartmouth College to develop new transparent conducting materials for optoelectronic applications. Specifically, the grantee will engineer the atomic composition, crystallinity, and electronic transport properties of two-dimensional metal oxide nanosheets printed from liquid metals. Initial studies show these 2D oxides have unique overlapping grain structures,...

This Project Grant award in the amount of $491,285 was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program. The award supports research at the University of Texas at Austin to conduct spatially, temporally, and spectrally resolved electrical probing of optical excitations in semiconductors. The key objectives are to study the generation, recombination, and dissociation of excitons - bound electron-hole pairs - and...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, funded under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, provides $490,521 to the Regents of the University of Michigan to conduct research on the interface structure between liquid gallium and water during electrochemical reactions. The key objectives of this 3-year project are to: 1) examine the physicochemical and electrochemical factors at the liquid gallium/liquid electrolyte interface relevant to...

This $413,975 federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, supports Professor Susan M. Kauzlarich of the University of California, Davis in advancing the chemistry of germanium semiconductor nanocrystals. Through this 3-year project, the research team will utilize microwave heating to synthesize doped and alloyed germanium nanoparticles with controlled size, shape, and surface properties. The goal is to...