Project Grant FA95502410097

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 two-year, $252,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research will support research into mechanically controlling the electronic properties of two-dimensional ferroelectrics. The grantee, the University of Nebraska, will investigate using mechanical stress and strain as novel methods to deterministically modulate polarization states and related changes in electrical resistance in 2D ferroelectric materials. Researchers will use scanning probe...

This $419,379 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to develop innovative gallium nitride (GaN)-based terahertz (THz) photoconductive emitters with an optical-to-THz energy conversion efficiency approaching or exceeding 100%. The research project will focus on three core areas: (1) designing GaN photoconductive switches with high breakdown electrical fields, (2) investigating ultrafast carrier dynamics and THz generation in...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award, under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program, provides $531,730 to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to research and develop a new type of non-volatile memory device based on sliding ferroelectricity in van der Waals materials. The project aims to harness the low-energy, fast switching, and compact advantages of this novel ferroelectric phenomenon to create advanced memory and computational technologies for applications like artificial...

This Project Grant award of $267,508 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will fund research at Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) to investigate light-induced ferroelectric polarization in hybrid halide perovskites. The goal is to find new ways to control ferroelectricity in these materials using light instead of electricity, which could lead to the development of efficient electronic devices...

This $450,000 three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will support the University of Notre Dame in developing high performance optically-controlled radio frequency switches with ferroelectric latching for advanced reconfigurable millimeter-wave to terahertz circuits. The university will investigate and demonstrate a novel switching technology using lightwave control...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems will support research into developing new 2D ferroelectric nonlinear metasurface holograms with high conversion efficiency but only nanometer thickness. The $249,379 award made to the Missouri University of Science & Technology on September 1, 2022 will fund the design, fabrication, and experimental characterization of 2D ferroelectric holograms to demonstrate the production of...

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 Project Grant award of $416,387 from the National Science Foundation's (CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences) program supports a collaborative research project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to investigate emergent phenomena and novel correlated phases of matter in a unique family of crystalline 2D semiconductor materials. The project aims to leverage the high material quality, electric gate tunability, and strongly interacting electrons within highly...

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...