Research Grants

Recent Faculty Research Grants

Ctirad Uher received a grant from the U.S. Department of Defense, Department of the Navy entitled, Efficient Filled Skutterudites for High Temperature Power Conversion.

Meigan Aronson received a grant from Pennsylvania State University under the Department of Energy (DOE) Prime named, A Cold Neutron Chopper Spectrometer for the Spallation Neutron Source. Aronson will also study, Magnetism in Low Carrier Density Systems with support from the DOE.

Philip Bucksbaum and David Reis will study, Ultrafast X-Ray Coherent Control with a grant from the Department of Energy.

Roy Clark secured a grant titled, Structure of Gd203 – GaAs Interfaces.

Cagliyan Kurdak secured a grant named, CAREER: Hybrid Systems of Al/AlOx/Al Tunnel Junctions Coupled to Semiconductor Heterostructures. Kurdak will also conduct a Study of Quantum Dissipation in Superconductor-Semiconductor Hybrids Using Transresistance Measurements with a grant provided by The Petroleum Research Fund of the American Chemical Society.

Jens-Christian Meiners also secured a grant titled, Active Microfluidic Devices for Single-Molecule Studies of Transcription and Transcriptional Regulation of Gene Expression.

Christopher Monroe received a grant from the Army Research Office of the Department of Defense (DOD)-DARDA for his research titled, Integration for Quantum Information Processing. Monroe also received a DOD-Army grant, Quantum Information with Cadmium Atoms and a Georgia Institute of Technology grant under subcontract with the DOD to research, Ion-Cavity Integration for Quantum Information Processing.

Homer Neal and Jean Krisch received a grant in support of a site Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Franco Nori's project, Quantum Computing with Superconducting Qubits is sponsored by the Quantum and Biologically Inspired Computing (AuBIC) NSF Program.

Greg Tarle secured a grant for the Summer Undergraduate Research Experience program from the National Science Foundation.

Ctirad Uher's project, U.S.-Czech Republic Materials Research on Novel Magnetic Semiconductors Based on Antimony Telluride [Sb2Te3] is a cooperative program between the National Science Foundation and the U.S.-Czech Republic Cooperative Research Program.