Project Grant N629092512044

This SBIR Phase I Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.084 - NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships) provides $305,000 to Coherent Photonics, LLC to develop innovative metasurface optical waveguiding devices (MOWGs). The goal is to create compact, lightweight, and cost-effective optical systems that can replace traditional assemblies of optical components like lenses and mirrors. The novel metasurface-based waveguides will enable subwavelength-level control...

This three-year $300,097 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research supports research at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University to develop flexible nonlinear plasmonic metasurfaces with multi-resonant enhancement capabilities. The university will elucidate structure-property relationships and determine second and third harmonic generation responses from nonlinear plasmonic metasurfaces. Additionally, the researchers will develop a scalable,...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $500,000.00 over a 4-year period to Purdue University to develop a novel hybrid thin film platform with unique optical properties for photonic integrated circuits (PICs). The research aims to advance understanding of electro-optical and magneto-optical coupling effects in complex nanoscale hybrid metamaterials, and demonstrate key building blocks for future large-scale PICs including...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems will support research into developing new 2D ferroelectric nonlinear metasurface holograms with high conversion efficiency but only nanometer thickness. The $249,379 award made to the Missouri University of Science & Technology on September 1, 2022 will fund the design, fabrication, and experimental characterization of 2D ferroelectric holograms to demonstrate the production of...

This $150,280 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will support the development of new plasmonic nanodevices for mid-infrared photodetection at Wayne State University from September 2022 through August 2025. Specifically, the university researchers will work to establish multiphoton-assisted tunneling in metal-insulator-metal structures as a new mechanism for mid-infrared detection. They will model, characterize and study the optical...

This $600,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to support research that develops a novel approach to metamaterials engineering and manufacturing for emerging optoelectronics. The project at the University of Michigan will utilize a combination of advanced manufacturing tools and focused-ion-beam-assisted molecular-beam epitaxy to pattern and integrate high-purity non-precious metals with high-quality semiconductors. The...

This three-year National Science Foundation project grant of $231,636 supports research at Stony Brook University to develop new biomolecule sensing techniques using infrared chiral metasurfaces. The researchers aim to design and analyze mid-infrared chiral metasurfaces with high circular dichroism for biosensing applications. They will fabricate the chiral metasurfaces and integrate microfluidic cells to characterize the sensing platform using infrared chiroptical measurements. The goal is to...

This $124,990 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities (IA) program (CFDA 47.083) supports research at the University of New Mexico (UNM) to develop novel metasurfaces based on two-dimensional and layered materials. The key objectives are to explore the optical properties of van der Waals nanoantennas, engineer multipolar resonances to achieve desirable responses, and control the directionality and linewidth of scattered light. This work aims to...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1,000,000 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to enable the synthesis, characterization, and demonstration of new classes of mesoporous photonic metamaterials. The goal is to achieve highly tailored control of spectral emissivity over infrared wavelengths in order to more effectively manage radiative heat transfer in building environments and improve energy efficiency. Key...

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...