Project Grant FA8655261B008

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 National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) Project Grant award of $119,174 to Wichita State University supports research to explore thiophosphates as balanced middle-infrared nonlinear optical materials. Key objectives are to employ synthetic methods, achieve balanced nonlinear optical properties, understand electronic structures and bonding, and grow large crystals of these materials. The research aims to advance the understanding of...

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...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities awarded a $124,802 Project Grant to the University of Oklahoma (OU) to study the growth of lead halide perovskite nanocrystals at the single-particle level. This research aims to advance the development of low-cost single photon emitters (SPEs) necessary for building future quantum photonic networks that enable secure quantum communications. Under this 2-year grant, starting September 1, 2023, Professor Yitong Dong and his...

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 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems provides $213,879 to support research understanding and exploiting non-linear behavior of phase-change materials for millimeter-wave applications. The award period is from September 1, 2021 through January 31, 2024. The grantee, Georgia Tech Research Corporation, will conduct research on behalf of the principal investigator to analyze phase-change materials' non-linear properties...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research provides $320,000 to support collaborative research on combinatorial solution processing of optical phase change materials at the University of Central Florida and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology through August 2026. The award aims to develop a high-throughput synthesis and characterization approach for discovering and optimizing new multi-component phase change alloy compositions tailored for...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will support fundamental research to develop a laser-induced non-equilibrium process for creating color centers in hexagonal boron nitride (2D-HBN) materials. The goal is to enable the controlled formation of single photon emitters in the visible spectrum, which can serve as important building blocks for quantum computing, artificial intelligence, and other advanced applications. The $546,398...

This five-year, $597,821 National Science Foundation Project Grant supports research into phase control during the synthesis of two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide materials using metalorganic chemical vapor deposition. Funded through the NSF Engineering Directorate's $47.041 million program, the grantee will develop real-time optical diagnostics to characterize and track the evolution of individual material phases during non-equilibrium growth conditions. Manipulating carrier...

This $264,134 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) supports research to grow large single crystals of noncentrosymmetric compounds and study their nonlinear optical (NLO) properties. The research, conducted by the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) in collaboration with the University of Houston, aims to expand the range of NLO materials and deepen the understanding of the relationship between...