Project Grant R41GM130239

Professor Ramanathan's group at Dartmouth College was awarded a $772,936 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program to develop methods for improving the sensitivity of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. The group will work to enhance dynamic nuclear polarization signals through the use of substitutional nitrogen impurity centers in diamond, with the goals of enabling NMR studies of smaller sample volumes at the nano and microscale....

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary Femtosenselabs, LLC received a $200,000 cooperative agreement from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Science, Technology, Business and/or Education Outreach program (CFDA 11.620), effective August 1, 2025, through April 30, 2026. The award supports a Phase I feasibility study to develop aligned nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center diamond structures for ultra-sensitive magnetic field sensing applications. The company will conduct...

Applied Diamond, Inc. was awarded a $206,380 project grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop a diamond detector system for ion-beam diagnostics. The grant-funded project will support the design and testing of an innovative diamond-based detector that can be used to characterize the properties of ion beams with unprecedented resolution. This detector system aligns with the Office of Science's mission...

This $274,786 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) will fund the development of a cutting-edge scanning magnetometer microscope by Femtosenselabs, LLC. This new microscope technology will enable high-resolution imaging of novel magnetic materials with unprecedented sensitivity at the nanoscale, supporting the advancement of spintronics and the development of...

This two-year, $231,696 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate (CFDA 47.049) will support research exploring electric field sensing with nitrogen vacancy centers in diamond and chemical tuning of the diamond host material. Specifically, the principal investigator and research team at San Jose State University will investigate new routes for chemically activating the surface of nanoscale diamond particles to generate covalent bonds...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), provides $450,000 over 3 years to the University of New Mexico to develop an advanced magnetometry sensor based on frequency comb techniques. The proposed sensor will exploit direct phase detection rather than amplitude measurements, enabling enhanced resolution and sensitivity for gradient magnetic field detection. Key technical objectives include theoretical modeling, verification with a...

This $1,634,839 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Program (CFDA 47.049) aims to revolutionize live-cell imaging by developing nanodiamond quantum sensors with exceptional sensitivity. The research, titled "QUSEC-TAQS: Nanodiamond Quantum Sensing for Four-Dimensional Live-Cell Imaging", will integrate nanodiamond quantum sensors with advanced light-sheet microscopy to achieve high spatiotemporal resolution and low...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program provides $480,000 to the University of Southern California (USC) to develop novel nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy techniques using quantum sensing technology. Specifically, the USC research team led by Susumu Takahashi is creating new approaches to high-field NMR spectroscopy that leverage nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond to dramatically...

This three-year, $600,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemistry, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), will support research into spin-probe-enabled sensing of fluids in confined geometries and interfaces. Carlos Meriles of the City College of New York and Nicolas Giovambattista of Brooklyn College will use atomic defects near the surface of a host crystal to characterize the structure and motion of water molecules confined at...

Advent Diamond, Inc. was awarded a $400,000 cooperative agreement from the National Institute of Standards and Technology under the Science, Technology, Business and/or Education Outreach federal grant program (CFDA 11.620) to develop phosphorus-doped diamond for quantum sensor applications. Advent Diamond will conduct a feasibility study during Phase I to fabricate doped diamond epiwafer samples, demonstrate the feasibility of fabricating nitrogen-vacancy centers in the epiwafers, and perform...