Project Grant W911NF261A162

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $272,615 to Lab2701 LLC to develop an Oscillator Processing Unit (OPU), a novel analog computing device intended for edge computing applications. The OPU aims to overcome the Von Neumann bottleneck, enabling faster, more energy-efficient, and smaller form factor computing compared to traditional digital processors. The project leverages two...

This $500,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program supports research to accelerate the design and improvement of optical resonators. The project aims to make the design process for these essential components in technologies like the internet, medical diagnostics, and advanced computing faster and more efficient. The research will leverage high-performance computing to explore and optimize...

This $400,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research at the University of Maryland, College Park to develop optically active quantum bits (qubits) in silicon. The goal is to create scalable quantum devices by integrating these silicon-based qubits with nanophotonic engineering and microwave control. The research will focus on a silicon color center called the "T center" which can exhibit efficient optical...

This $574,999 federal project grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton to develop broadband tunable nano-opto-electro-mechanical resonators for ultrasensitive adaptive sensing. The research aims to create a highly tunable mechanical resonator that can operate across a wide range of frequencies, signals, and conditions, enabling advanced adaptive sensing in various applications like...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (CFDA 47.041) awarded a $446,998 Project Grant to Cornell University to develop a new CMOS-compatible platform for ultraviolet (UV) and visible integrated photonics based on thin-film deposited hafnia. The key objectives are to: Explore strategies to inhibit crystallization of hafnia and reduce optical losses by incorporating other elements into the films. The resulting composite films will maintain hafnia's high refractive...

This five-year, $500,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will support research into circuit quantum optics using hybrid quantum systems composed of superconducting qubits coupled to piezoelectric surface acoustic wave devices at Michigan State University. The principal investigator will experimentally investigate novel regimes of circuit quantum optics by leveraging controllable levels of acoustic dissipation from precisely designed...

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 University of Rochester received a $460,131 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop versatile on-chip devices for generating frequency combs and ultrashort pulses with high efficiencies and energies up to 1,000 times greater than the state-of-the-art. Specifically, the University will experimentally demonstrate how the energy limit of microresonator solitons can be engineered through loss engineering in strongly over-coupled cavities....

This National Science Foundation award provides $359,999 to the University of Maryland, College Park through September 2022 to August 2025 to support research toward universal quantum computing with integrated quantum optical frequency combs. The award is part of the NSF Engineering Directorate's $47.041 million program to foster innovation in engineering research. Specifically, the university will work to demonstrate generation of continuous variable cluster states and Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill...

This $600,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports Northeastern University's research to create a new "n-sphere" analog computing chip capable of solving large-scale quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) problems. The project aims to develop a low-power CMOS-based programmable circuit that can accurately solve QUBO problems involving thousands of variables, which current...