Project Grant N000142412471

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...

This NSF Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) Project Grant award of $300,000 to Brown University will support a research infrastructure improvement project focused on developing an experimental method to directly probe the configuration of electron spins in 2D materials like multilayer graphene. The key objectives are to: 1) establish a user program located in Rhode Island to provide research and intern opportunities for students, thereby training the state's quantum workforce, and 2)...

This $1,800,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) will fund a collaborative research project between the University of Kansas and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The project aims to harness the unique properties of artificial magnetic semiconductors in two-dimensional (2D) materials to enable the development of next-generation electronic devices and components, including energy-efficient memory and logic devices. The...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research to investigate the properties and behaviors of emergent particles called "anyons" in two-dimensional topological materials. The $175,228 award to Cornell University, spanning May 2025 to April 2030, will utilize scanning tunneling microscopy to probe and manipulate anyons, which have the potential to enable fault-tolerant quantum computing....

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) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded a $450,000 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) to research and develop switchable persistent spin helix devices. The goal is to overcome key challenges in spintronic devices, which use electron spin rather than charge to carry information, by leveraging materials with strong spin-orbit coupling and electric-field tunable persistent...

This SBIR Phase I award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program provides $304,994 to Atomos 3D LLC to develop a new type of energy-efficient 3D memory using advanced indium gallium zinc oxide transistors. The goal is to address the need for power-efficient hardware to support the growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) applications in mobile devices, wearables, and autonomous systems. The project will demonstrate the...

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 magnetoelectronic...

This $483,605 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Materials Research will support a collaborative research effort between the University of Wyoming and Colorado State University. The goal is to explore the unconventional magnetic properties of few-layer two-dimensional van der Waals (2D VDW) magnets, with a focus on investigating metastable magnetic phases, domain behaviors, and mechanisms underlying magnetic switching in these novel materials. The...

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...