Crosscutting
NSF-NRI Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Supplements to NSF Centers in Nanoelectronics (NSF 09-016)
 
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CONTACTS
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PROGRAM GUIDELINES
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PD 09-016
As announced on May 21st, proposers must prepare and submit proposals to the National
Science Foundation (NSF) using the NSF FastLane system at
http://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/.
This approach is being taken to support efficient Grants.gov operations during this busy
workload period and in response to OMB direction guidance issued March 9, 2009. NSF will
continue to post information about available funding opportunities to Grants.gov FIND and
will continue to collaborate with institutions who have invested in system-to-system
submission functionality as their preferred proposal submission method. NSF remains
committed to the long-standing goal of streamlined grants processing and plans to
provide a web services interface for those institutions that want to use their
existing grants management systems to directly submit proposals to NSF.
Please be advised that the NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) includes
revised guidelines to implement the mentoring provisions of the America COMPETES Act (ACA)
(Pub. L. No. 110-69, Aug. 9, 2007.) As specified in the ACA, each proposal that requests
funding to support postdoctoral researchers must include a description of the mentoring
activities that will be provided for such individuals. Proposals that do not comply
with this requirement will be returned without review (see the PAPP Guide Part I:
Grant Proposal Guide Chapter II for further information about the implementation of
this new requirement).
DUE DATES
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Archived
SYNOPSIS
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See the Dear Colleague Letter, NSF 09-016, announcing this opportunity at http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf09016.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) in cooperation with the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) through the semiconductor industry’s Nanoelectronics Research Initiative (NRI) is again offering supplemental funding opportunities to NSF centers involved in nanoelectronics research to support additional graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to work in collaborative efforts with participating NRI company assignees on exploring new concepts beyond the scaling limits of CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) technology. These joint efforts are intended to enhance nanoelectronics research and education, strengthen industry linkages with NSF centers, and develop future cadres of industry and faculty researchers to help drive the field. The NSF Directorates participating are Engineering (ENG), Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS), and Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE).
The supplemental funding requests shall be for exploratory nanoelectronics research consistent with the mission of the NSF centers that has the potential to meet the needs of the NRI. NRI is focused primarily on research on devices utilizing new computational state variables beyond electronic charge. NRI is also interested in non-charge based interconnect technologies and novel circuits and architectures, including non-equilibrium systems, for exploiting these devices, as well as improved nanoscale phonon management and novel materials and fabrication methods for these structures and circuits. All NSF centers and networks involved in nanoelectronics research are eligible to apply, including those that were awarded supplements in previous competitions.
Abstracts of Recent Awards Made Through This Program
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