Project Grant W911NF1310454

This $392,098 National Science Foundation award under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program will fund research to establish new theoretical foundations for active metamaterial transmission lines (MTLs) that can control the amplitude and phase of electromagnetic waves. The goal is to develop transformative transmission line technology to address increasing demands for enhanced data capacity, higher spatial resolution, multi-functionality, and smaller circuit and system dimensions in microwave...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems has awarded a $343,324 Project Grant to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The grant will fund research to develop "Perfect Electromagnetic Teleporting Metasurfaces" - a new class of conformal metasurface devices capable of routing electromagnetic energy around building corners to enhance 5G/6G...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering Directorate ($400,000) supports the development of smart radio environments using reconfigurable intelligent surfaces to improve millimeter-wave communications. Specifically, the University of Utah will create a modular radio hardware prototype capable of precise phase control at millimeter-wave frequencies. They will also develop advanced signal processing algorithms for practical reconfigurable intelligent surface-aided...

This $124,990 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities (IA) program (CFDA 47.083) supports research at the University of New Mexico (UNM) to develop novel metasurfaces based on two-dimensional and layered materials. The key objectives are to explore the optical properties of van der Waals nanoantennas, engineer multipolar resonances to achieve desirable responses, and control the directionality and linewidth of scattered light. This work aims to...

This $600,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to support research that develops a novel approach to metamaterials engineering and manufacturing for emerging optoelectronics. The project at the University of Michigan will utilize a combination of advanced manufacturing tools and focused-ion-beam-assisted molecular-beam epitaxy to pattern and integrate high-purity non-precious metals with high-quality semiconductors. The...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $244,830 to Tufts University to conduct collaborative research on fundamental challenges in extremely wideband, highly directional channels for future terahertz-enabled wireless networks. The key objectives are to design hybrid beamforming algorithms for wideband multicarrier systems, investigate joint user association with base stations and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, and...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $467,930 to Northeastern University to design and implement a novel class of metasurface-based optical neural networks, termed "meta-ONNs". The goal is to develop multiplexed meta-ONNs that can operate at optical frequencies and perform diverse functions like all-optical image recognition and pattern generation. The project consists of three main research thrusts: (1)...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program awarded Arizona State University $213,831 under a Project Grant to develop a new type of Hybrid Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (HRIS) technology. The HRIS will be designed to sense incident waves, deduce information about user and transmitter directions, and reconfigure its reflection patterns accordingly. This will enable the implementation of a smart and autonomous wireless propagation environment that can redirect signals, mitigate...

This $545,961 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) seeks to revolutionize the field of microwave circuit design by developing an advanced inverse design (InvDes) framework. The project aims to create a systematic approach for the inverse design of planar microwave and millimeter wave devices, including filters, splitters, baluns, and antennas, to meet complex performance requirements and fabrication constraints. Key objectives...

This three-year, $247,328 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Integrative Activities program will support research at Howard University into mathematical models for designing freeform optical surfaces that direct light intensity distribution in a controlled manner. The university will study optimal transport and refractive surfaces in geometric optics to reduce the size and amount of optical components needed in devices like antennas, solar panels, and medical equipment....