Project Grant W911NF261A161

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 $271,213 National Science Foundation award through the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program will support research at the Illinois Institute of Technology from September 2022 through August 2025. The project aims to advance understanding of boundary and interface issues in metamaterials through multi-disciplinary collaboration. Researchers will perform theoretical, computational, and experimental analysis of transition layers in acoustic and elastic metamaterials to develop devices that control...

This collaborative research project grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation's Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), provides $253,022 in funding to the University of Pennsylvania for research commencing August 1, 2025 and concluding July 31, 2028. The project delivers a continuum modeling framework for active mechanical metamaterials—engineered materials whose properties derive from geometric structure rather than...

This $662,943 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER: New Polarizations of Elastic Waves in Architected Materials project grant awarded to the University of Utah will support research to enable the design of dynamic systems capable of targeted functionalities such as vibration mitigation, ultrasonic imaging, and thermal phononic manipulation. The 5-year award will build the analytical, computational, and experimental foundations for three novel polarizations of elastic waves - non-paraxial...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $299,337 Project Grant to the University of Connecticut under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop magnetoelectric multiferroic nanocomposite and heterostructured films for electrically tunable high-frequency coplanar waveguide resonators and filters. The two-year project beginning October 1, 2022 involves fabricating ferromagnetic and ferroelectric composite and heterostructured films, measuring their ferroelectric and leakage current...

This National Science Foundation award provides $249,901 in funding to the University of Massachusetts Lowell under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) from September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2025. The funding supports fundamental research on consistent treatment of boundaries and interfaces in metamaterials. A multi-disciplinary team will perform theoretical and computational analysis of transition layers and use inverse design principles to create devices that control propagation of...

This $200,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports the development of efficient and accurate algorithms for modeling acoustic and electromagnetic wave propagation in complex domains. The primary goals are to create robust algorithms using high-frequency integral equations, microlocal and numerical analysis, asymptotic methods, and finite element techniques. This work aims to enhance the simulation of...

This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems, totaling $250,000, supports collaborative research between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Virginia Commonwealth University under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The grant funds the development of acoustically induced ferromagnetic resonance to assist energy efficient spin torque memory devices. Researchers will work to significantly lower the...

The National Science Foundation awarded a 5-year, $650,081 CAREER grant to the Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey. The project, titled "CAREER: Non-Local Metamaterials and Metasurfaces for Next Generation Non-Reciprocal Acoustic Devices," will fund research to develop advanced acoustic metamaterials and metasurfaces that can manipulate sound waves in asymmetric, non-reciprocal ways. This work aims to enable new applications in fields such as...

This $300,000 National Science Foundation Project Grant supports mathematical research into the visibility and invisibility properties of electromagnetic signatures of inhomogeneities. Funded under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), the three-year award to Rutgers, The State University will examine how the regularity, geometry and material contents of an inhomogeneity impact its visibility when probed by electromagnetic waves. Specifically, the investigator will...