Restricted Research - Award List, Note/Discussion Page
Fiscal Year: 2023
1543 The University of Texas at Arlington (143431)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Weidong Zhou,wzhou@uta.edu,(817) 272-1227
Total Amount of Contract, Award, or Gift (Annual before 2011): $ 360,001
Exceeds $250,000 (Is it flagged?): Yes
Start and End Dates: 2/9/23 - 2/8/24
Restricted Research: YES
Academic Discipline: Department of Electrical Engineering
Department, Center, School, or Institute: none
Title of Contract, Award, or Gift: Consortium on Sensing, Energy-efficient Electronics and Photonics with 2D Materials and Integrated Systems for Training the Next-Generation DOE-NNSA STEM Workforce
Name of Granting or Contracting Agency/Entity:
University of North Texas
CFDA: 81.123
Program Title: none
Note:
(SAM Category 1.1.1.)The Sensing, Energy-efficient Electronics, Photonics-Interdisciplinary Technologies (SEEP-IT) Consortium will form a synergistic partnership between leading researchers in photonics, electronics and two-dimensional layered materials (2DLMs) at two Tier 1, Hispanic Serving Institutes (HSIs) in the Dallas Fort Worth Region (DFW), a Historically Black College and University (HBCU) in nearby Arkansas, and scientists at Sandia National Laboratory (SNL) and Argonne National Labs (ANL). Through this Department of Energy (DOE)-National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) program, the scientific pursuits under the SEEP-IT Consortium should herald transformational insights into how radiation interacts with matter using novel photonic and energy-efficient platforms and materials, including 2DLMs and their hybrids, as described in our team’s Research Thrust Areas, Thrusts (A)-(C). The academic collaborators and DOE-NNSA scientists will work cohesively to study the interactions of radiation with matter, using electrical engineering, materials science, physics, device design and modeling approaches and apply these innovative materials toward advancing nuclear survivability and response for combat effectiveness and to shield against the effects of nuclear weapons. Within Thrust A, we will develop radiation detectors based on rigid Si photonic crystals, and also explore radiation detectors in flexible formats using additively manufactured 2DLMs and perovskites that are finding increasing use as scintillator materials for lightweight, airborne applications through the deployment of flexible sensor skins. In Thrust B, electronics and photonics with heterogeneous integration in the atomic limit will be explored towards nanolasers and energy-efficient photonics using monolayer and heterostructure vapor-synthesized crystals of 2DLMs. In Thrust C, we will explore novel properties in 2D twisted bilayer and twisted bilayer photonic crystals and study quantum interactions and Moire patterns in these systems to unveil fundamental aspects of the emerging field of “twistronics” and metamaterials. The academic partners will involve the University of North Texas (UNT), an HSI as the lead, while collaborating universities will be the University of Texas Arlington (UTA), also an HSI, and the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (UA-PB), an HBCU.
Discussion: No discussion notes