Project Grant N000142612427

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research provides $320,000 to support collaborative research on combinatorial solution processing of optical phase change materials at the University of Central Florida and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology through August 2026. The award aims to develop a high-throughput synthesis and characterization approach for discovering and optimizing new multi-component phase change alloy compositions tailored for...

This $657,685 federal project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports research to investigate the connection between tunneling two-level systems, ultrastability, and ideality in vapor-deposited amorphous chalcogenide alloy films. The research team from the University of California, Berkeley will fabricate and characterize these phase change materials that are important for opto-electronic switches,...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems provides $213,879 to support research understanding and exploiting non-linear behavior of phase-change materials for millimeter-wave applications. The award period is from September 1, 2021 through January 31, 2024. The grantee, Georgia Tech Research Corporation, will conduct research on behalf of the principal investigator to analyze phase-change materials' non-linear properties...

This $200,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) aims to accelerate the design, discovery, and deployment of electronic phase transition materials at the University of Notre Dame. The goal is to deliver new classes of insulator-to-metal transition (IMT) materials that can enable low-power computing systems and advanced communication technologies like 6G. The interdisciplinary research team will develop...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award of $521,832 supports research to develop an "all-on-a-chip" nanomanufacturing system capable of additively printing three-dimensional features at the deep-nanometer scale. The research aims to leverage advancements in electrified droplet ejection and nanofluidics to enable the use of yoctoliter-to-zeptoliter scale droplets for high-resolution, integrated circuit-compatible additive...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation provides $779,240 to support research at the University of Notre Dame advancing lithography-free manufacturing techniques for metal nanostructures separated by nanogaps. Specifically, the award funds work through August 2025 to define benchtop fabrication methods for integrating opposing metal surfaces separated by sub-5 nm nanogaps into applications in plasmonics and molecular...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $162,843 project grant to the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNC-G) under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The grant will support UNC-G in hosting the 2023 NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Grantees Conference, an annual two-day in-person and virtual event. This conference will bring together researchers, educators, and industry experts in nanotechnology and nanobiology to highlight NSF-funded research, foster...

This Project Grant award of $500,000.00 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of Maryland, College Park will explore a new class of low-loss phase change materials to control light propagation and enable "synthetic dimensions" for advanced optical information processing and computing. The project aims to develop reconfigurable modal control and topological nanophotonics for next-generation communications and quantum computing...

This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research, totaling $951,218, will fund research at Carnegie Mellon University to develop new techniques for measuring temperature distribution in nanoscale electronic devices under an applied voltage. The university researchers will use scanning thermal microscopy and scanning Joule expansion microscopy to map temperature changes in resistive switching structures and identify the operating mechanisms...

The National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research awarded $320,000 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a collaborative research project on combinatorial solution processing of optical phase change materials. The researchers will develop a high-throughput synthesis and characterization paradigm for accelerated discovery and customization of multi-component phase change alloy thin films tailored for...