Project Grant W911NF1010174

This $500,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will support research at The Washington University in St. Louis to develop a heterogeneous photonic integration platform. The key technical objectives are to: Enable the van der Waals integration of dissimilar functional nanomembranes, including barium titanate, gallium nitride, and cobalt ferrite, onto silicon and silicon nitride photonic circuits. This will allow the creation of...

This EAGER (Early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research) award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $275,000 to investigate quantum light emitters in silicon for use in future quantum networks and computers. The project aims to (1) develop manufacturing processes for a new silicon-based quantum defect, (2) characterize the properties of these color centers, and (3) study their spin characteristics. This multidisciplinary effort, led by the...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $255,834 Project Grant to Anello Photonics Inc. under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to develop a silicon photonic optical gyroscope using planar waveguide coil and integrated photonics circuit. This award provides six months of funding from April 1, 2021 through September 30, 2021 for Anello Photonics to produce an optical gyroscope that utilizes silicon photonics technology. The Engineering program seeks to improve quality of...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $1,000,000 to Iris Light Technologies Inc., a small business in Chicago, Illinois, to develop foundry-scale production of on-chip silicon photonic light emitters enabled by printed photonic ink. The project aims to create black phosphorus-based inks that can be integrated directly onto silicon photonic chips to produce on-chip lasers. This...

Impact Photonics LLC received a $256,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program to develop a complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) compatible single photon avalanche diode. The SBIR program is intended to support scientific research and development that has the potential for commercialization. Under this Phase I award made on November 1, 2021 for a one-year period ending December 31, 2022, Impact Photonics...

This three-year, $499,912 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research will support research into developing high-efficiency light emitters from earth abundant elements for optoelectronic technologies. Funded under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program, Virginia Commonwealth University researchers will synthesize low-dimensional silicon-tin and silicon-germanium-tin nanoalloys to produce size and composition tunable nanoparticles with superior...

The University of California, San Diego received a five-year, $500,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems to support research titled "CAREER: SILICON-PHOTONICS HIGH-RESOLUTION REAL-TIME PROBABILITY APPARATUS FOR QUANTUM APPLICATIONS." The grant supports research and development of silicon-photonic technologies with applications in the field of quantum information science and engineering under the NSF Engineering...

This $275,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program aims to transition a Ti:Sapphire-on-Insulator (Ti:SaOI) photonic platform from academic demonstration to a wafer-scale, CMOS-foundry compatible process. The goal is to enable scalable production of integrated Ti:Sapphire lasers and amplifiers operating in the 700-1000 nm wavelength range, which could revolutionize the visible and near-infrared laser...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I Project Grant award to La Luce Cristallina, Inc. provides $274,997 to address critical technical challenges in scaling up barium titanate on silicon technology for photonic integrated circuits. The key products and services to be delivered under this 1-year project include: Developing a process to mitigate the thermal stress that arises from integrating barium titanate, an optical material, with silicon...

The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees received a $323,500 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: ALL-OPTICAL FABRICATION OF LOW-LOSS, HIGH-INDEX-CONTRAST, SILICON-IN-SILICON WAVEGUIDES." The award period is from September 15, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The grant funds collaborative research at the University of Central Florida's campus in...