Project Grant N000142412407

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering Directorate (CFDA 47.041) provides $376,022 to New York University for research establishing principles to fabricate van der Waals heterostructures with clean interfaces. The three-year award beginning September 2022 supports developing new strategies for assembling two-dimensional materials into heterostructures suitable for quantum electronics. Researchers will study polymer contaminant interactions with and mobilization...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program provides $310,520 to The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) to develop a new class of quantum emitters based on in-plane two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) quantum dots embedded within wafer-scale continuous monolayer sheets. The research encompasses studies to tune the size, shape, density, and uniformity of the TMD quantum dots, as well as...

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 like...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering awarded a two-year, $250,000 EAGER grant to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) to explore the development of gate-all-around (GAA) field-effect transistors (FETs) using two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide (2D-TMD) materials. The project aims to advance the scalability and performance of complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) transistors by leveraging the unique properties of 2D-TMDs compared...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities awarded a $124,802 Project Grant to the University of Oklahoma (OU) to study the growth of lead halide perovskite nanocrystals at the single-particle level. This research aims to advance the development of low-cost single photon emitters (SPEs) necessary for building future quantum photonic networks that enable secure quantum communications. Under this 2-year grant, starting September 1, 2023, Professor Yitong Dong and his...

This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports research by Prof. Thomas Kempa and his group at Johns Hopkins University to develop new quantum material platforms based on two-dimensional (2D) metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) combined with 2D semiconductor materials. The $307,752 award will fund efforts to chemically design 2D MOF structures and assemble them into van der Waals heterostructures with...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Materials Research, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049), is providing $363,799 to The Research Foundation for The State University of New York (RF SUNY) to develop new pathways for assembling atomically thin bilayers and optically study novel phenomena that can arise in heterobilayers. The key objectives are to grow heterobilayers using combinations of semiconducting...

This $349,949 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Partnerships for Innovation - Technology Translation (PFI-TT) program (CFDA 47.084) supports the development of a multi-purpose container and associated digital twin software for large-scale production of two-dimensional (2D) materials. The key products being delivered through this award include: An advanced, configurable, multi-purpose container for wafer-scale growth of 2D materials at commercial scales. Digital...

This $100,000 two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Emerging Frontiers and Multidisciplinary Activities, under the Engineering (47.041) program, will support research at Boise State University to develop a co-design model integrating DNA nanotechnology and two-dimensional materials for advanced semiconductor manufacturing and workforce development. Specifically, the University will design DNA nanostructure templates for atomic precision patterning and doping...

This Project Grant award, funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), supports a collaborative research project between Duke University and ETH Zürich to explore the thermal implications of scaling and structure of metal contacts to two-dimensional (2D) semiconductor materials. The $400,000 award, effective September 1, 2024 through August 31, 2027, aims to: 1) develop an apparatus for nanoscale thermal mapping of 2D contact structures; 2)...