Project Grant FA95502410048

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $275,000 to researchers at the University of California, Berkeley to study the magnetic properties of vanadium-based intercalation compounds of transition metal dichalcogenides. The research aims to elucidate the fundamental structure-property relationships in these materials and explore their potential for next-generation spintronic devices. The project will...

Through a $249,132 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049), the University of Missouri System, Missouri University of Science & Technology campus, is conducting research to discover and characterize new families of magnetic Weyl semimetals. The project aims to unlock the key ingredients necessary for the design and discovery of these novel quantum materials, which have potential applications in areas like...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) in the amount of $306,110 supports research and workforce development activities at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (New Mexico Tech) focused on light-controlled magnetism in quantum materials. The project combines experimental work at New Mexico Tech and Georgetown University with theoretical modeling at the University of Chile to investigate light-induced...

This three-year, $485,084 National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research Project Grant will support research into emergent quantum phenomena through muon spin relaxation, neutron scattering, and scanning tunneling microscopy experiments. Led by researchers at Columbia University, the project aims to elucidate charge-spin interplays in unconventional superconductors and Mott transition systems through measurements of superfluid density, dynamic spin fluctuations, order parameters, and...

This $279,854 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will support research at The Ohio State University to develop new spintronic material platforms for energy-efficient memory and computing applications. The investigators will focus on heterostructures consisting of ultrathin ferrimagnetic insulator films and adjacent metallic layers. They will grow and characterize high-quality bilayer films to optimize properties for applications by...

This $250,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports research on developing second-generation "Kitaev magnets" as potential building blocks for quantum computing. The research team at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) will investigate a new family of compounds that may exhibit the necessary quantum spin liquid properties to serve as qubits for quantum computation. The project aims to...

This $483,605 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Materials Research will support a collaborative research effort between the University of Wyoming and Colorado State University. The goal is to explore the unconventional magnetic properties of few-layer two-dimensional van der Waals (2D VDW) magnets, with a focus on investigating metastable magnetic phases, domain behaviors, and mechanisms underlying magnetic switching in these novel materials. The...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $591,720 Project Grant under its Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to support research on the emergent spin textures and dynamics of two-dimensional (2D) magnetic materials. The project aims to study the nanoscale magnetic patterns and low-energy spin dynamics in 2D magnets using advanced x-ray and optical spectroscopy techniques, coupled with theoretical modeling. This...

This Project Grant award of $522,937 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program will fund research by the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) to investigate intertwined superconductivity and magnetism in iron-chalcogenide materials. The project aims to establish the magnetic and superconducting phase diagram of these materials and search for signatures of predicted exotic excitations, such as Majorana zero modes, which have...

This NSF Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) Project Grant award of $300,000 to Brown University will support a research infrastructure improvement project focused on developing an experimental method to directly probe the configuration of electron spins in 2D materials like multilayer graphene. The key objectives are to: 1) establish a user program located in Rhode Island to provide research and intern opportunities for students, thereby training the state's quantum workforce, and 2)...