Project Grant HDTRA11310008

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will support fundamental research to develop a laser-induced non-equilibrium process for creating color centers in hexagonal boron nitride (2D-HBN) materials. The goal is to enable the controlled formation of single photon emitters in the visible spectrum, which can serve as important building blocks for quantum computing, artificial intelligence, and other advanced applications. The $546,398...

This $662,943 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER: New Polarizations of Elastic Waves in Architected Materials project grant awarded to the University of Utah will support research to enable the design of dynamic systems capable of targeted functionalities such as vibration mitigation, ultrasonic imaging, and thermal phononic manipulation. The 5-year award will build the analytical, computational, and experimental foundations for three novel polarizations of elastic waves - non-paraxial...

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...

Boron Nitride Power LLC received a $256,000 project grant award from the National Science Foundation under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to support research and development of novel battery technologies. Specifically, the January 2022 award will fund the company's STTR Phase I project to develop batteries utilizing functionalized hexagonal boron nitride with the goals of achieving high energy and power capabilities along with long cycle life and thermal stability. The...

The National Science Foundation awarded a 5-year, $650,081 CAREER grant to the Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey. The project, titled "CAREER: Non-Local Metamaterials and Metasurfaces for Next Generation Non-Reciprocal Acoustic Devices," will fund research to develop advanced acoustic metamaterials and metasurfaces that can manipulate sound waves in asymmetric, non-reciprocal ways. This work aims to enable new applications in fields such as...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $443,079 in funding to Georgia Tech Research Corporation to conduct research on electroacoustic topological insulator-based logic devices. The goal of this 3-year project is to develop reconfigurable acoustic transistors and logic components leveraging topological interface states, which can enable low-loss, disorder-immune wave-based computing. The research aims to contribute new...

This $388,500 National Science Foundation project grant supports research into the electronic properties of two-dimensional systems subjected to low-energy light excitation at Georgia State University from August 2022 to July 2025. The award is part of NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through advancing knowledge in these fields. Specifically, the university will experimentally examine the...

This $524,480 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research at New York University (NYU) on developing novel semiconductor crystal materials and manufacturing processes for advanced optoelectronic applications. The key focus is on understanding how to fabricate "twisted" organic semiconductor crystals that can spontaneously form into aligned networks, enabling them to outperform single crystal materials in properties...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering awarded a $399,988 Project Grant to Gordon College to study the propagation of sound waves in nanostructured materials. The project, titled "Collaborative Research: RUI: Wave Engineering in 2D using Hierarchical Nanostructured Dynamical Systems," will develop a tailored two-dimensional medium consisting of a periodic array of nanoscale cavities with single-atom-thick membranes. By vibrating these membranes, the...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Cooperative Agreement award under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program provides $1,000,000 in funding to Crystal Sonic Inc. to develop a process that uses sound energy and stress to precisely cut and lift thin layers (approximately 20 microns) of gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductor material from a thick wafer, allowing for the reuse of the underlying wafer. The objective is to significantly reduce the material costs...