Project Grant N629092512079

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $550,000 to Northeastern University is for the development of compact, coherent hydrophone array systems for real-time, wide-area ocean acoustic monitoring. The project aims to translate the Passive Ocean Acoustic Waveguide Remote Sensing (POAWRS) technology, which uses advanced hydrophone arrays to provide continental-scale ocean sensing capabilities, into...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award of $600,000 to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) aims to develop additive and subtractive manufacturing processes to rapidly print and erase biomaterials capable of high-density wireless mechanical sensing. Specifically, the project will engineer photolabile ferroelectric bioinks incorporating piezoelectric nanoparticles with electrochromic dyes within a hydrogel. These bioinks will be...

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 National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering (CFDA 47.041) Early-concept Grant for Exploratory Research (EAGER) award of $300,000 supports fundamental research to develop an innovative acoustic array-assisted 3D bioprinting technology to enable dynamic, layer-by-layer cell patterning within filaments during the 3D bioprinting process. The project aims to significantly improve the functionality of engineered tissue and organ models for applications in regenerative medicine, drug...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), under the Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health program (CFDA 93.286), provides $420,725 to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to research and develop novel acoustic metamaterials for subwavelength ultrasound focusing. The project aims to overcome the diffraction limit in medical ultrasound imaging and therapies by leveraging...

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...

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...

The National Science Foundation awarded a 5-year, $650,081 CAREER grant to the Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey. The project, titled "CAREER: Non-Local Metamaterials and Metasurfaces for Next Generation Non-Reciprocal Acoustic Devices," will fund research to develop advanced acoustic metamaterials and metasurfaces that can manipulate sound waves in asymmetric, non-reciprocal ways. This work aims to enable new applications in fields such as...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program provides $1,210,801 to La Luce Cristallina, Inc., a small business in Austin, Texas, to develop foundry-compatible 200mm silicon-integrated epitaxial barium titanate wafers for silicon photonics applications. The project aims to enable innovative integrated silicon photonics by providing semiconductor fabrication services for this superior optical material,...

This $304,999 SBIR Phase I grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports the development of a high-frequency multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) underwater acoustic communication system. The project aims to create a real-time, high-data-rate wireless communication technology that minimizes noise pollution and interference with marine life, enabling improved environmental monitoring and safer underwater operations....