This $250,097 federal Project Grant award was provided by the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). The award, with a performance period from September 30, 2024 to September 29, 2027, will fund research on attosecond XUV probing of carrier and spin dynamics in materials and at interfaces. UC Berkeley, a leading...
The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley, received a $375,213 Project Grant award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory on May 1, 2021 to complete work by April 30, 2023. The grant funding supports magnetic imaging of two-dimensional quantum materials to maintain technological superiority in scientific areas relevant to Air Force needs. The University of California, Berkeley will conduct this...
The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $1,156,883 Project Grant under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley. The grant provides funding from August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2026 to conduct a direct test of the quantum statistics theorem using well-separated indistinguishable particles. UC Berkeley, as the prime awardee, will perform...
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $118,653 Project Grant to the University of California, Berkeley under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) on October 15, 2024. The grant supports quantitative phase mapping research on the negative capacitance state in a ferroelectric heterostructure, with a performance period through October 14, 2027. This fundamental research project aims to advance scientific understanding in materials science and electronics, which...
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $378,828 Project Grant to the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) for the "DRIVEN-DISSIPATIVE QUANTUM SYSTEMS UNDER A MICROSCOPE" research project. This 5-year grant, awarded on September 30, 2024 under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), will fund UC Berkeley's fundamental and applied research on quantum computing, materials science, and advanced electronics critical to national defense...
The Regents of the University of California at Riverside received a $213,900 Project Grant award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory on June 1, 2021 to complete the project by September 30, 2023. The grant is being used to develop a high-flux source for aluminum monochloride with applications in material science under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program aims to maintain Air Force...
The University of California, Berkeley received a $301,521 Project Grant award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to develop an Absolute Optical Frequency Reference for Quantum Sensing. This funding will support UC Berkeley's work to maintain technological superiority and prevent technological surprise for adversaries by creating an absolute frequency reference using quantum sensors. Such...
The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $787,406 Project Grant to the University of California, Berkeley under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) on September 30, 2024. The grant will fund research towards "Next Experimental Steps Towards Quantum Information Processing with Trapped Electrons" over a performance period ending on September 29, 2027. The research aims to maintain technological superiority in scientific...
The University of California, Santa Barbara received a $210,000 Project Grant award from the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The award, with a performance period from September 5, 2024 to September 4, 2025, will support research on "Fiber-Coupled On-Chip THz Spectroscopy of Van der Waals Materials." This fundamental scientific research aims to advance understanding and develop innovative measurement technologies in...
The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $600,000 Project Grant to the University of Michigan under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) from January 15, 2021 to January 14, 2024. The grant aims to advance understanding of light-induced biological processes through computational and experimental studies of parameter sensitivity and system-environment interactions in vision and photosynthesis systems. Researchers will examine these...