Project Grant N629092412013

This $100,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will support a workshop titled "Towards Carbon-Neutral Electricity and Mobility: The Infrastructure Challenges and Opportunities" to be held in Houston, Texas from February 28 to March 1, 2023. The workshop aims to bring together experts from power, energy, transportation, and artificial intelligence to identify the...

This $300,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to develop batteryless technology for Internet of Things (IoT) devices, particularly in wearable applications such as fitness trackers, smartwatches, and medical devices. The project will integrate artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning techniques to harness the potential of batteryless sensors for personalized data analytics. Key objectives include: Developing new deep...

Georgia Tech Research Corporation was awarded a $399,495 project grant by the National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will fund collaborative research between U.S. and Australian researchers to develop responsible artificial intelligence frameworks, techniques, and algorithms for enabling an equitable Internet of Energy. Specifically, the researchers...

This $282,983 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to develop an advanced artificial intelligence (AI) framework to transform how individuals and communities participate in electricity exchange within transactive energy systems. The key products and services to be delivered include: Development of an AI-driven framework that models aggregators, learns optimal bidding and trading strategies for market participants, and adapts to...

This Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $250,000 to the University of Texas at Dallas to design and experimentally demonstrate computing systems with extreme energy efficiency. Specifically, the project aims to leverage magnetic skyrmions, which are magnetic quasiparticles, to develop reversible and reservoir computing systems that can significantly reduce the environmental and economic costs of computer energy consumption....

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering (CFDA 47.041) project grant, awarded to Arizona State University (ASU), aims to design and fabricate high aspect ratio beta-gallium oxide (β-Ga2O3) fin field-effect transistors (FinFETs) for use in high-efficiency power converter applications. The key aspects of the proposed work include: Investigating an in-situ gallium etching technique within a metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) reactor to enable the fabrication of tall, high...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award for $499,462 aims to explore and study an innovative solution to power future mobile machine-to-machine (M2M) Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices. The objective is to develop a microsystem that enables direct coupling of electromagnetic waves to a resonant piezoelectric transformer for efficient wireless RF energy harvesting. Key products and services to be delivered include: Demonstration of a novel...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded a $385,000 Project Grant to Northwestern University to develop cross-layer techniques from device to circuit and architecture for the large-scale integration of ferroelectric field effect transistors (FeFET) with complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology. This research aims to enable emerging computing applications, such as AI, robotics, augmented/virtual reality, and autonomous...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $439,603 Project Grant to the University of Texas at Dallas to support research under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041). The award will fund continued research through 2025 in collaboration with institutions in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Specifically, the funding will support investigation of gallium oxide as a semiconductor material for power electronics applications. The research team will evaluate gallium oxide...

This three-year, $400,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports the development of high-efficiency distributed beamforming techniques for radio frequency energy transfer at Northeastern University. The university aims to overcome technological challenges that have hindered effectively combining energy from multiple transmitters to power remote Internet of Things devices. Key products include a distributed beamforming method using...