Technological Challenges in Organic Electronics, Photonics and Magnetics

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Synopsis

The National Science Foundation (NSF) announces a solicitation on Technological Challenges in Organic Electronics, Photonics and Magnetics. This interdisciplinary research will foster interactions among various disciplines that will impact the field of organic/polymeric electronics, photonics and magnetics, thereby resulting in heretofore-unanticipated breakthroughs and enabling technologies. Organic electronics, photonics and magnetic devices integrated to intrinsic and hybridized systems, represent a highly promising interdisciplinary area of technology, that will provide greatly increased functionality and the potential to meet future challenges of scalability, flexibility, low power consumption, light weight, and reduced cost. This focused initiative seeks high-risk/high-return research proposals on novel concepts in organic electronics, photonics and magnetics. Emphasis will be placed on enabling technologies critical to the continued growth of organic electronics, photonics and magnetics in the next decade to address the scientific issues and technological challenges associated with the underpinnings of the technology.

Program contacts

Name	Email	Phone	Organization
Usha Varshney Solicitation Coordinator, Program Director	uvarshne@nsf.gov	(703) 292-8339	ENG/ECCS
Rajinder Khosla Program Director	rkhosla@nsf.gov	(703) 292-8339	ENG/ECCS
Paul J. Werbos Program Director	pwerbos@nsf.gov	(703) 292-8339	ENG/ECCS
Bruce K. Hamilton Division Director	bhamilto@nsf.gov	(703) 292-8320	ENG/CBET
Shih C. Liu Program Director	sliu@nsf.gov	(703) 292-8360	ENG/CMMI
Maria K. Burka Program Director	mburka@nsf.gov	(703) 292-7030	ENG/CBET
Robert M. Wellek Deputy Division Director	rwellek@nsf.gov	(703) 292-8370	ENG/CBET
Donald Senich Senior Advisor, Small Business Procurement Policy	dsenich@nsf.gov	(703) 292-7082	ENG/IIP
Glenn H. Larsen ENG/OAD Clearance Officer	glarsen@nsf.gov	(703) 292-4607	ENG/IIP
Doug Kirkpatrick Program Manager		703-526-4762	DARPA/ATO

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Published:

February 11, 2004

Technological Challenges in Organic Electronics, Photonics and Magnetics

Status: Archived

Archived funding opportunity

NSF's implementation of the revised 2 CFR

Important information for proposers

Updates to NSF Research Security Policies

Synopsis

Program contacts

Awards made through this program

Technological Challenges in Organic Electronics, Photonics and Magnetics

Status: Archived

Archived funding opportunity

NSF's implementation of the revised 2 CFR

Important information for proposers

Updates to NSF Research Security Policies

Synopsis

Program contacts

Awards made through this program

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