The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $149,966 Project Grant to North Carolina State University under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to conduct research on "ACTIVE DEPLOYMENT CONTROL OF ULTRA-THIN COMPOSITE STRUCTURES". The goal of this 3-year project, which runs from June 1, 2024 to May 31, 2027, is to maintain technological superiority for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force by advancing research in materials science and aerospace systems....
North Carolina State University received a $394,707 project grant award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory on September 15, 2021 to complete work by September 14, 2022. The award is supporting the development of an electromagnetic property measurement apparatus to test ceramic materials at high temperature environments under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA #12.800). The Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program aims to maintain...
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $8,000,000 Project Grant to the University of Maryland, College Park under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to conduct research on "DESIGN AND CONTROL OF ATOMIC DEFECTS IN GROUP II-OXIDE MATERIALS". The award period runs from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2026. The university has sub-awarded portions of the work to North Carolina State University, Pennsylvania State University, and the Massachusetts...
This federal Project Grant award of $438,020.00 was provided by the U.S. Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431). The grant was awarded to North Carolina State University (NC State) on January 21, 2025, with a performance period ending on January 20, 2026. The purpose of the grant is to fund the development of an electron spectrometer for semiconductor transport measurements, which...
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $126,479 Project Grant to Syracuse University on June 5, 2025 under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant supports the development of sub-terahertz tunable, high-speed, and ultra-narrowband atomic resonance filters with color centers in 2D materials. This fundamental and applied research aims to maintain technological superiority for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force by preventing technological surprise and...
The Department of the Air Force awarded Duke University a $187,976 Project Grant under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to conduct research on the "Characterization of Chiro-Optic and Dynamical Responses of Bespoke Semiconducting Materials for Spin Transport and Long-Wavelength Information Transmission." The award, effective February 1, 2025, with a completion date of January 31, 2026, supports fundamental and applied scientific research to maintain...
The Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $199,999 Project Grant under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to the University of Delaware on July 1, 2025. The grant, titled "PECASE: LARGE SCALE 2D MATERIAL ACTIVE SILICON PHOTONICS," will support fundamental and applied scientific research over a 5-year period ending on June 30, 2030. The University of Delaware, a private research university and 1862 land-grant institution, has a robust history of providing...
Arizona State University was awarded a $200,280 project grant from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to support the "MBE SYSTEM UPGRADE FOR GROUP-IV ALLOYS AND OTHER EMERGING COMPOUND SEMICONDUCTORS FOR HETEROVALENT INTEGRATION" project. The funding falls under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), which aims to maintain Air Force technological superiority through research preventing technological surprise and creating it...
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded Duke University a $485,949 Project Grant under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to fund a research project titled "Visualizing Nanoscale Dynamics of Metasurface-Enabled Optoelectronics via Co-Localized Optical, Thermal, and Electrical Scanning Probe Microscopy." The grant, with a performance period from February 1, 2024 to January 31, 2025, will enable Duke University's researchers to conduct fundamental...
The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) awarded a $118,653 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 (UC Berkeley). The grant, awarded on October 15, 2024, supports research to conduct quantitative phase mapping of the negative capacitance state in a ferroelectric heterostructure. The project aims to prevent technological surprise and create...