Project Grant W911NF0610165

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under CFDA 47.041 - Engineering program aims to advance miniature piezoelectric acoustic devices for efficient and adaptive radio-frequency front-end (RFFE) signal processing, with a focus on the millimeter-wave spectrum. The $520,000 award, spanning from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2029, will enable research by the University of Texas at Austin across three key areas: 1) developing low-loss and wideband thin-film lithium niobate...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems, under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), provides $1,500,000 to the University of Central Florida (UCF) to develop an energy- and spectrum-efficient millimeter-wave (mmW) transmitter array system for next-generation wireless communications. The key objectives are to: 1) Utilize heterogeneous integration and advanced packaging to embed high-power wide-bandgap...

This Project Grant award of $380,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports the development of wideband, ultra-linear transceiver circuits for future 6G wireless communication standards that operate in the 7-24 GHz spectrum range. The principal investigator at the University of California, Berkeley plans to design a highly agile and programmable radio front-end capable of dynamically accessing and sharing this new...

This three-year, $750,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will fund research at the University of Michigan to develop novel multifunctional materials and devices for interference-immune broadband wireless systems. Specifically, the grant will support investigating the use of self-biased multiferoic materials and algorithms to learn how network participants use spectrum over...

Northeastern University was awarded a $500,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems. The grant is part of the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to support the research project "CAREER: GIANT TUNABILITY THROUGH PIEZOELECTRIC RESONANT ACOUSTIC METAMATERIALS FOR RADIO FREQUENCY ADAPTIVE INTEGRATED ELECTRONICS" being conducted from February 2021 through January 2026. Under this award, Northeastern University...

The Colorado School of Mines was awarded a $548,676 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program to develop new alloy materials and device designs extending wireless communications to the next stage of 5G operation. Through the award, the School will screen and develop novel piezoelectric alloys with higher acoustic velocities than existing options using high-throughput experimentation guided by first-principles computational tools. This...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering) provides $550,000 over 5 years to Florida A&M University (FAMU) to develop a reconfigurable real-time radio frequency (RF) analog co-processor in a compact, low-cost form factor. The project aims to: Design an RF analog co-processor that can perform configurable mathematical operations directly on electromagnetic waveforms, reducing computational load in digital signal processing. Develop a film with tunable...

This $500,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will support Northeastern University's development of the first AlScN microelectromechanical radio frequency (RF) bandpass filter capable of activating tunable and sharp notches within its passband to effectively suppress electromagnetic interference (EMI). The new "spinphonic" technology will leverage magnon-phonon coupling to achieve exceptionally high EMI attenuation of over 40...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $260,000 to Michigan State University to develop a novel wearable distributed metasurface antenna array for reliable and secure wireless body area networks. The key research tasks include: Developing a wearable metasurface transmission line to reduce on-body signal path loss and enable energy-efficient, secure communication between body-worn antennas. Investigating a coordinated wearable...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) provides $276,000 to Astrabeam LLC and Penn State University to develop a D-band, silicon-based phased array radar front-end module for smart sensing applications. Specifically, the awardees will design, model, simulate, and demonstrate a prototype radar module operating beyond 100 GHz with wide bandwidth. The scalable, area-efficient front-end architecture and phased array...