Project Grant FA95502010381

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 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 $388,500 National Science Foundation project grant supports research into the electronic properties of two-dimensional systems subjected to low-energy light excitation at Georgia State University from August 2022 to July 2025. The award is part of NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through advancing knowledge in these fields. Specifically, the university will experimentally examine the magnetoelectronic...

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 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 three-year $300,097 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research supports research at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University to develop flexible nonlinear plasmonic metasurfaces with multi-resonant enhancement capabilities. The university will elucidate structure-property relationships and determine second and third harmonic generation responses from nonlinear plasmonic metasurfaces. Additionally, the researchers will develop a scalable,...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $500,000.00 over a 4-year period to Purdue University to develop a novel hybrid thin film platform with unique optical properties for photonic integrated circuits (PICs). The research aims to advance understanding of electro-optical and magneto-optical coupling effects in complex nanoscale hybrid metamaterials, and demonstrate key building blocks for future large-scale PICs including...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $363,799 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049) to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF SUNY) at Binghamton University for the project "CAREER: One-Pot Synthesis and Optical Spectroscopy of 2D Heterobilayers." The grant aims to develop new methods for assembling atomically thin bilayers with novel material properties, such as unconventional superconductivity....

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 Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports research by Prof. Thomas Kempa and his group at Johns Hopkins University to develop new quantum material platforms based on two-dimensional (2D) metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) combined with 2D semiconductor materials. The $307,752 award will fund efforts to chemically design 2D MOF structures and assemble them into van der Waals heterostructures with...