Project Grant W911NF1810262

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will provide $402,134 from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027 to support research and development of a novel class of semiconductor nanostructures called non-Hermitian topological photonic crystals. The key products and services to be delivered include: Designing, fabricating, and characterizing the optical properties and optoelectronic device applications of these photonic crystal slabs,...

Freedom Photonics LLC received a $249,987 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on February 22, 2021 to support the Quantum All-Optical Transponder (QOAT) project. The award was made 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. Through this funding, Freedom Photonics will develop a QOAT prototype to...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $416,059 Project Grant titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: FIRST-PRINCIPLE CONTROL OF NOVEL RESONANCES IN NON-HERMITIAN PHOTONIC MEDIA" under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). This grant supports integrated research, education, and outreach focused on studying a novel behavior of light within solid materials. The researchers aim to establish a complex non-Hermitian photonic environment through first-principle...

This $380,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems under CFDA Program 47.041 (Engineering) will fund the development of new types of on-chip "topological photodetectors" that can detect and differentiate between different modes and properties of light, such as its phase, polarization, and orbital angular momentum. These novel photodetectors, based on emerging quantum materials like Weyl semimetals,...

This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program provides $729,992 to Penn State University to explore emergent magnetic topological states in three-dimensional magnetic topological insulator multilayers. The researchers will employ magnetic topological insulators as primary building blocks to construct heterostructure multilayers and investigate the resulting quantum phenomena. Combining experimental probes with theoretical modeling...

This $600,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) aims to develop efficient sources of pure single- and multi-photon quantum states to enable new advances in quantum communication, computing, and metrology. The principal investigators at the University of Illinois plan to leverage photon-addition and photon-subtraction techniques to engineer a variety of exotic quantum states of light, like Fock states,...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities program project grant award provides $300,000 to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) to conduct research on integrated photonic platforms leveraging solution-processed wide-bandgap cesium lead halide perovskites. The 2-year project, starting January 1, 2025, aims to advance the understanding of perovskite crystal growth and patterning synthesis, as well as develop cost-effective integrated photonic devices that can enable...

This $155,145 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program supports research on non-Hermitian physics in ultracold atoms and photonics at The Washington University in St. Louis. The key objectives are to: (I) construct and characterize new topological photonic lattices through Hermitian and non-Hermitian control; (II) study novel topological phases arising from unique continuous hyperbolic metamaterials; and (III) generate...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences) program will provide $108,010 to the University of Washington to conduct research on topological phases of matter and their applications in quantum technology. The key research objectives are to: Investigate the emergence and propagation of stable currents between topologically distinct phases, including calculating their profile and speed, and deriving effective equations for their...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities awarded a $124,802 Project Grant to the University of Oklahoma (OU) to study the growth of lead halide perovskite nanocrystals at the single-particle level. This research aims to advance the development of low-cost single photon emitters (SPEs) necessary for building future quantum photonic networks that enable secure quantum communications. Under this 2-year grant, starting September 1, 2023, Professor Yitong Dong and his...