Project Grant W911NF1510528

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...

This $450,000 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) seeks to advance wireless communication technologies by incorporating a new type of reconfigurable antenna, known as a dynamic metasurface antenna (DMA), into multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems. The key objectives are to develop methods to integrate DMAs into MIMO to create a "tri-hybrid MIMO...

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...

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 $440,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund the development of a semiconductor plasma phased array system with integrated performance-to-radiator mapping capabilities. The primary objectives are to: (1) develop a plasma phased array focusing on feed network solutions, and (2) create fast AI/ML-supported reconfiguration algorithms to enable real-time mapping of system performance to the radiator profile. The project aims...

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 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 $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 $275,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports the development of "Computational Antennas" (Comptenna) - a new computational unit that can perform programmable analog computations at the antenna in the millimeter wave and sub-terahertz bands. The goal is to significantly expand the degrees of control to enable novel wireless communications and sensing applications on next-generation...

The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded Virginia Commonwealth University a $220,000 Project Grant under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The two-year award will support research into developing spintronic extreme sub-wavelength and super-gain active electronically scanned antennas enabled by phonon-magnon-plasmon-photon coupling. Specifically, the university will introduce surface plasmons into magnetostrictive nanomagnets...