Project Grant FA86552017039

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) 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 received a $199,992 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on February 14, 2022 to support work completing on November 13, 2022. The grant funds research to develop precise control of particle orbit in accelerators using machine learning technology. The Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) aims to deliver scientific discoveries and tools to transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy security and economic...

The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded Brimrose Technology Corporation a $1,349,577 project grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop cadmium magnesium telluride for picosecond response x-ray optical laser photodetectors. The Office of Science's mission is to deliver scientific discoveries and major scientific tools to transform our understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy, economic, and national security. Under this award...

This $900,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), will fund the development of the world's lowest temperature and highest energy-resolution angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) facility at the University of Colorado Boulder. ARPES is a critical technique for studying the quantum behavior of electrons in solids but is currently limited by available energy and...

Raytum Photonics LLC was awarded a $199,993 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop a low insertion loss high power cryogenic Faraday isolator for carbon dioxide wavelengths. The isolator will allow for more efficient transmission of laser light for scientific applications such as spectroscopy. The Office of Science seeks to advance scientific understanding and energy technologies through...

Quantum Advanced Detection LLC received a $199,754 project grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on February 22, 2021 to develop a time-of-flight electron energy analyzer for multimodal spectroscopy. The award was made under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), which aims to deliver scientific discoveries and tools to transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy and economic security. The one-year project will support Quantum...

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 $450,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics supports an effort to develop a comprehensive database of plasma photoionization processes with practical applications in fields such as combustion and high-speed aerodynamics. The "ECLIPSE: EXPLORING PHYSICS OF MULTIPHOTON IONIZATION USING THOMSON COHERENT MICROWAVE SCATTERING" project will utilize a novel Thomson in-phase coherent microwave scattering (TMS) technique to precisely...

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...