Project Grant FA95502410061

Through a $489,703 award under the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), Professor Dong Hee Son at Texas A&M University is investigating the use of dark excitons in lead halide perovskite nanocrystals to generate light and charge carriers with controllable quantum properties. The research team is exploring the energy and relaxation dynamics of single- and bi-exciton states formed from dark excitons, as well as the emission of correlated...

This three-year, $499,912 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research will support research into developing high-efficiency light emitters from earth abundant elements for optoelectronic technologies. Funded under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program, Virginia Commonwealth University researchers will synthesize low-dimensional silicon-tin and silicon-germanium-tin nanoalloys to produce size and composition tunable nanoparticles with superior...

This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) totaling $150,000 aims to advance understanding of strong-field and ultrafast processes in atomic systems through theoretical and computational modeling. Funded under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), the award supports research at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to describe interactions between intense coherent radiation and large quantum systems. Specific investigations include...

This $220,000 EAGER grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems supports research into the creation of atom-like defects in semiconductor materials for the development of single-photon emitters at telecommunications wavelengths. The project aims to implant elements such as vanadium and erbium into silicon carbide and aluminum gallium nitride films to form optically active defects that emit at 1.3 and 1.55 micron wavelengths....

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $700,000 from August 2024 to July 2027 to The Leland Stanford Junior University for research on quantum phenomena in ultrafast optical circuits. The primary aims are to develop deeper insights into the transition regime where quantum effects become significant as optical circuits are miniaturized, including both theoretical and experimental components. This work...

This $449,999 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports research led by Professor George Schatz of Northwestern University. The project is developing new theory and computational methods to characterize the interaction of classical and quantum light with molecules, with applications in photon-based quantum computing and secure communications technologies. Key...

This $449,457 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports the University of Delaware (UDE) in developing new computational methods for modeling molecular polaritons - hybrid states arising from the interaction between molecules and confined light inside optical cavities. The project aims to bridge the gap between current theoretical models and real-world polariton chemistry experiments involving millions of...

This $150,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports collaborative research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to develop GPU-accelerated first-principles simulation techniques for modeling exciton dynamics in complex materials systems. Funded through NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), the three-year award running from August 2022 to July 2025 will advance the scientific understanding needed to design novel photovoltaic and...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded Icarus Quantum Inc. a $100,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Science, Technology, Business and/or Education Outreach program (CFDA 11.620) to develop efficient and noise-free excitation quantum dots (QDs) for on-demand quantum light generation. The project aims to enhance the collection efficiency of QD systems by eliminating the need for precise polarization or frequency filtering, enabling the creation of compact, turnkey,...

The University of Rochester received a $490,637 three-year Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) to develop new theoretical approaches for simulating quantum dynamics of polariton photochemistry processes. Dr. Pengfei Huo and his research group will use the funding to create accurate and direct simulation methods for molecule-cavity hybrid systems, investigating dynamics to...