Project Grant N000142612147

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (CFDA #47.041) awarded a 3-year, $442,800 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of Minnesota to conduct fundamental research on improving the high-pressure, high-temperature manufacturing process for producing large, high-quality diamond single crystals. The research aims to increase the size, quality, and cost-effectiveness of synthetic diamond production, enabling new applications in optical elements, radiation...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Physics, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $645,309 to Northwestern University to develop techniques for precision measurements on atoms and molecules trapped within inert cryogenic crystals from July 15, 2022 to June 30, 2025. The researchers will produce the first doped cryocrystals suitable for searches beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. They will grow large inert...

This $320,779 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund research at the University of California, Riverside to demonstrate discrete time crystals in photonic chip-scale systems. The researchers will realize and study time crystals in silicon nitride microring resonators pumped by polychromatic lasers. They will control the state of created time crystals and enable transitions between different phases using frequency modulation and sweeps....

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 $1,000,000 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program aims to develop a process that uses sound energy and material stress to precisely cut and lift thin layers of gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductor material from a wafer, enabling the wafer to be reused multiple times. The project, awarded to Crystal Sonic Inc., a for-profit company based in Phoenix, Arizona, seeks to significantly reduce...

Crystal Sonic Inc. received a $275,000 Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project grant from the National Science Foundation under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084). The grant supported the development of a new approach to lower the cost of advanced semiconductor manufacturing through the use of acoustic energy to precisely cut and lift off thin semiconductor devices from their host substrates without waste. By enabling substrate reuse, this "Sonic...

This three-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $485,000 to Penn State University to develop new nonlinear optical single crystal materials and an open-source modeling package for classical and quantum light generation applications. Specifically, the University will synthesize and characterize promising new nonlinear optical single crystals identified through theoretical modeling and literature reviews. An...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program aims to advance understanding of the piezoelectric effect and structural organization in room temperature ionic liquids (RTILs). The $450,938 award to Michigan State University, with a project period from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2027, will fund experimental and theoretical investigations to characterize the dependence and length scale of the piezoelectric...

This $300,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research to characterize recovered material from experiments that synthesized quasicrystals under high-pressure and high-temperature conditions. The research aims to provide a fundamental understanding of how and when quasicrystals nucleate and grow during these transient shock events, which could lead to discoveries of novel quasicrystal-forming alloys...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (CFDA 47.041) awarded a $275,000 Project Grant to The Pennsylvania State University, doing business as Penn State, to develop an environmentally benign replacement for lead-containing piezoelectric transducers. The project aims to fabricate nano-structured silicon devices that can leverage a newly observed phenomenon, space charge induced flexoelectricity, to create high-performance transducers for sensing, actuation, and energy...