Project Grant N000142312187

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $400,000 over 3 years to the University of California, Berkeley to develop novel intelligent large-scale multi-antenna array architectures operating at 140 GHz. The key products and services to be delivered include: Analytical and behavioral modeling of non-idealities in large scalable antenna arrays Design of reconfigurable D-band (140 GHz) front-ends with performance tuning...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $299,337 Project Grant to the University of Connecticut under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop magnetoelectric multiferroic nanocomposite and heterostructured films for electrically tunable high-frequency coplanar waveguide resonators and filters. The two-year project beginning October 1, 2022 involves fabricating ferromagnetic and ferroelectric composite and heterostructured films, measuring their ferroelectric and leakage current...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems, under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), provides $1,500,000 to the University of Central Florida (UCF) to develop an energy- and spectrum-efficient millimeter-wave (mmW) transmitter array system for next-generation wireless communications. The key objectives are to: 1) Utilize heterogeneous integration and advanced packaging to embed high-power wide-bandgap...

Allbeams Inc. received a $242,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on September 1, 2021 to develop ultra wide band (UWB) Ka-band flat panel antennas. The project is funded through the NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) and focuses on enabling innovation, creativity, and excellence in engineering research. Specifically, Allbeams will leverage the award to advance the design of UWB antennas operating in the 26.5-40 GHz frequency band for applications such as 5G...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $260,000 to Michigan State University to develop a novel wearable distributed metasurface antenna array for reliable and secure wireless body area networks. The key research tasks include: Developing a wearable metasurface transmission line to reduce on-body signal path loss and enable energy-efficient, secure communication between body-worn antennas. Investigating a coordinated wearable...

This $275,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports the development of "Computational Antennas" (Comptenna) - a new computational unit that can perform programmable analog computations at the antenna in the millimeter wave and sub-terahertz bands. The goal is to significantly expand the degrees of control to enable novel wireless communications and sensing applications on next-generation...

This $392,098 National Science Foundation award under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program will fund research to establish new theoretical foundations for active metamaterial transmission lines (MTLs) that can control the amplitude and phase of electromagnetic waves. The goal is to develop transformative transmission line technology to address increasing demands for enhanced data capacity, higher spatial resolution, multi-functionality, and smaller circuit and system dimensions in microwave...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering Directorate ($400,000) supports the development of smart radio environments using reconfigurable intelligent surfaces to improve millimeter-wave communications. Specifically, the University of Utah will create a modular radio hardware prototype capable of precise phase control at millimeter-wave frequencies. They will also develop advanced signal processing algorithms for practical reconfigurable intelligent surface-aided...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $274,993 to Amrf LLC, a small business located in San Jose, CA, focuses on the design and development of ultra-wideband beamforming integrated circuits. The project aims to establish the feasibility of using a novel radio-frequency fractional Hilbert transformation design theory to create wideband RF front-end systems with phased arrays, which have the potential to transform...

This Project Grant award of $174,988 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences will support the development of a millimeter-wavelength (mmWave) rapid scan image phased array radar technology demonstrator unit. The objective is to evaluate the feasibility of a future ground-based, mobile phased array cloud radar system that could provide high-resolution measurements of cloud processes, which are crucial for understanding the Earth's climate and...