Project Grant FA86552317028

This $450,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports the development of new composite materials with applications in optical devices. Professor Rob Macfarlane and his research group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will synthesize polymer-grafted nanoparticles containing large volumes of high refractive index nanoparticles embedded in a mechanically robust...

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...

This National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering) Project Grant award of $313,716 supports fundamental research by the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) to develop advanced optical hybrid materials (OHM) through combinatorial printing techniques. The goal is to understand how compositional doping influences OHM hybrid structures and establish a spatially resolved optical analysis system to identify key factors affecting these materials under extreme gradients. The...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $200,609 to Texas Tech University System to conduct collaborative research on additive manufacturing of optical hybrid materials (OHM). The key objectives are to understand how compositional doping influences OHM hybrid structures and develop a spatially resolved optical analysis system to identify the critical factors affecting these materials under extreme gradients. The successful...

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 three-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $485,000 to Penn State University to develop new nonlinear optical single crystal materials and an open-source modeling package for classical and quantum light generation applications. Specifically, the University will synthesize and characterize promising new nonlinear optical single crystals identified through theoretical modeling and literature reviews. An...

The National Science Foundation Division of Industrial Innovation awarded $256,000 to Nonlinear Materials Corporation of Seattle, Washington under Project Grant STTR PHASE I: ROBUST HIGH-PERFORMANCE ORGANIC ELECTRO-OPTIC MATERIALS. The award period runs from April 15, 2021 through March 31, 2022. Under this award, Nonlinear Materials Corporation will develop robust high-performance organic electro-optic materials to deliver under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) federal grant program. The...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program provides $750,000 to Northeastern University to develop innovative engineered photonic materials using a data-driven deep learning approach. The research aims to accelerate the discovery, design, and implementation of new photonic metamaterials with tailored optical properties for applications in areas such as lasers, optical communications, quantum computing, and...

This federal Project Grant award from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300) provides $173,463.00 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to develop a "LOW-LOSS, HIGH-BANDWIDTH OPTICAL INTERFACE FOR CRYOGENICALLY COOLED INFRARED IMAGERS". The award period is from February 1, 2025 to January 31, 2027. This research aims to advance optical interface technologies to support high-performance infrared imaging...

This $600,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to support research that develops a novel approach to metamaterials engineering and manufacturing for emerging optoelectronics. The project at the University of Michigan will utilize a combination of advanced manufacturing tools and focused-ion-beam-assisted molecular-beam epitaxy to pattern and integrate high-purity non-precious metals with high-quality semiconductors. The...