Project Grant N000142312817

Muons Inc. was awarded a $200,000 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science on June 27, 2022 to develop Affordable, Efficient Injection Locked Magnetrons for Superconducting Cavities. The project aims to deliver new magnetron technology to support the Office of Science's mission of transforming our understanding of nature and advancing U.S. energy and economic security through scientific discoveries and tools. Specifically, Muons Inc. will work to design injection locked...

Microwave Techniques LLC was awarded a $200,000 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop a MULTI-MEGAWATT RF VACUUM WINDOW FOR HIGH DUTY-FACTOR RF ACCELERATING CAVITIES. The grant aims to support the Office of Science's mission to deliver scientific discoveries and tools that transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy security and economic competitiveness by funding research...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) received a $420,000 three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems through the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041). The grant will fund research to develop a novel spin torque oscillator maser device enabled by spin-microwave photon coupling. The device aims to generate coherent microwave signals with superior performance compared to existing technologies. If...

Muons Inc. was awarded a $200,000 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science on February 14, 2022 to develop innovative magnetron power sources for superconducting radio frequency (SRF) accelerators. The grant is being administered under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), which aims to deliver scientific discoveries and tools to transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy and economic security. Under this nine-month award concluding...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $719,758 provides funding from June 1, 2022 to May 31, 2025 to develop a spintronic spectrum analyzer and limiter based on tunable magnetic tunnel junction arrays. Funded under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), the award supports research at Northwestern University to address the challenge of radio frequency interference exacerbated by growing internet-connected devices. The project aims to develop a spintronic spectrum analyzer...

Radiabeam Technologies, LLC received a $199,708 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on February 14, 2022 to develop a ferrite-free circulator for precise measurements of SRF cavities with high Q-factor. The work will be performed in Santa Monica, CA through November 13, 2022. This award supports the Office of Science's Financial Assistance Program (CFDA #81.049), which aims to deliver scientific discoveries and tools to transform understanding of nature and...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded a $480,000 Project Grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to develop a novel compact high-power terahertz (THz) oscillator capable of operating at room temperature. This 3-year project aims to fill a gap in THz technology and enable the use of the THz spectrum for applications such as imaging, spectroscopy, sensing, computing, and communications. The key innovation is...

The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded $250,000 to Star Cryoelectronics, LLC through its Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop a high-performance superconducting tunnel junction (STJ) soft x-ray detector for biological science. The STJ soft x-ray detector will utilize superconducting tunnel junction technology to detect soft x-rays at the nanoscale level for biological imaging and spectroscopy applications. The project aims to advance SC's mission to...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program provides $480,000 to the University of Southern California (USC) to develop novel nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy techniques using quantum sensing technology. Specifically, the USC research team led by Susumu Takahashi is creating new approaches to high-field NMR spectroscopy that leverage nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond to dramatically...

This $1.1 million Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will fund the acquisition of a magnetic-field-free atomic-resolution scanning transmission electron microscope at the University of Illinois at Chicago from September 2022 through August 2025. The microscope's novel lens design provides a magnetic-field-free sample region allowing for atomic-resolution imaging and chemical analysis of quantum materials such as magnetic,...