Project Grant FA95502410360

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 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Materials Research, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $168,312 to William Marsh Rice University to conduct collaborative research on understanding and manipulating magnetism and spin dynamics in two-dimensional intercalated van der Waals magnets. The key objectives of the project are to: 1) establish precisely controlled intercalation-magnetism relations and create a phase...

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 $244,955 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports theoretical and computational research to develop advanced computational tools and use them for describing the dynamical behavior of magnetic molecules connected to external electrodes and manipulated by magnetic fields. The research aims to provide a balance between computational efficiency and physical accuracy in simulating such open...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award of $239,329 to Northeastern University aims to develop thin films of erbium-doped yttrium iron garnets and experimentally demonstrate efficient microwave-to-optical photon transduction. The project consists of three main thrusts: (1) using magnetron sputtering to grow the erbium-doped films, (2) characterizing the structural, magnetic, and optical properties of the films, and (3) fabricating integrated...

The National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research awarded a $509,725 Project Grant to the University of Maryland, College Park to conduct research on understanding and controlling the properties of magnetic two-dimensional (2D) crystals. The grant, awarded under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, will support fundamental studies to investigate how factors such as adsorbed molecules, adjacent layers, and mechanical strain can impact the magnetic...

The $120,000 National Science Foundation Project Grant, funded through the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), supports research at the University of Maryland, College Park to engineer atomically thin magnetic materials for solid-state cryogenic cooling below 1 Kelvin. Over the one-year period from January 2023 to December 2023, the university researchers will apply first-principles simulations to understand magnetism-structure relationships in two-dimensional magnets. They will also employ...

This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems, totaling $250,000, supports collaborative research between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Virginia Commonwealth University under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The grant funds the development of acoustically induced ferromagnetic resonance to assist energy efficient spin torque memory devices. Researchers will work to significantly lower the...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $504,816 provides funding from April 15, 2023 through March 31, 2026 to support research exploring magnetism, spin textures, and magnetotransport phenomena in covalent two-dimensional magnets. The award is made under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which promotes advancement in these scientific fields. The primary awardee is the Research Foundation for the State University of New York to support research at the...

This $360,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) funds a comprehensive theoretical investigation of magnon devices built upon two-dimensional (2D) magnetic materials. The primary objective is to elucidate the mechanisms underlying the generation, propagation, and detection of magnon currents within realistic 2D structures, with the goal of identifying material parameters capable of generating magnon currents comparable to or...