Project Grant S165A220010

This $793,568 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) will develop and implement a fast cooling pulsed magnet design for repetitive operation. The goal is to create pulsed magnets in the range of 30-50 Tesla that can greatly increase the throughput of high magnetic field research laboratories and be used at light source facilities like the Advanced Photon Source. This research will train students at the undergraduate,...

Advanced Conductor Technologies LLC (ACT) received a $200,000 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on June 28, 2021 to develop HYBRID ACCELERATOR MAGNETS BASED ON DOG BONE SHAPED CORC; WIRE INSERTS FOR OPERATION BEYOND 20 T. The period of performance for this award is from June 28, 2021 through May 31, 2022. The award was made under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA #81.049). This program supports basic research to deliver scientific...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) provides $633,000 to the University of California, Riverside (UC Riverside) to acquire a cryogen-free magnetometer. This high-sensitivity, high-throughput magnetometer will support research into a broad range of topics, including investigating new properties in magnetic and superconducting thin films and heterostructures, proximity coupling at interfaces, and applications of...

Corepower Magnetics Inc. received a $4.6 million cooperative agreement award from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) to support development of a scaled inline processing facility for permeability engineered nanocrystalline magnetics. The three-year award running from March 2023 through March 2026 aims to advance Corepower's ability to produce enhanced magnetic materials through a streamlined manufacturing process. ARPA-E's Advanced Research Projects...

This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems, totaling $250,000, supports collaborative research between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Virginia Commonwealth University under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The grant funds the development of acoustically induced ferromagnetic resonance to assist energy efficient spin torque memory devices. Researchers will work to significantly lower the...

Muons Inc. was awarded a $200,000 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science on February 14, 2022 to develop innovative magnetron power sources for superconducting radio frequency (SRF) accelerators. The grant is being administered under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), which aims to deliver scientific discoveries and tools to transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy and economic security. Under this nine-month award concluding...

This $619,688 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research to advance additive manufacturing (AM) of rare earth permanent magnets. The award funds a collaboration between the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the India Institute of Technology-Kharagpur to: (1) design specialized alloys for AM processing, (2) conduct in-situ studies of the AM process, and (3) fabricate part-level magnets using commercial laser powder...

The Department of Energy (DOE) awarded Corepower Magnetics Inc. a $19,974,887 Cooperative Agreement under the Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chain Demonstrations and Commercial Applications federal grant program (CFDA 81.253) to establish a 10,000-ton-per-year soft magnetic amorphous metal production facility. The objective of this project is to boost domestic supply chain resiliency for transformers and motors used in the electric grid and electric vehicle applications. The funding will enable...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Program awarded The Trustees of Princeton University's Office of Research and Project Administration a $338,926 Project Grant to conduct fundamental research on modeling and designing complex power magnetic components for electrical power converters. The goals are to develop systematic methods for modeling and designing multi-winding power magnetics, create software tools for optimal power magnetic design, and demonstrate the effectiveness of the...

This $400,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports fundamental and applied research into precision measurements and investigations of fundamental symmetries. The primary activities include: Leading the analysis of space and time dependent measurements of the muon-averaged magnetic field for the Fermilab Muon g-2 experiment, which aims to explore "beyond Standard Model" physics by precisely...