2025-2026 BLOCK-GIFT PROGRAMS

Optics, Lasers and Photonics

CUNY, City University of New York, Qiushi Guo, Octave-Wide Electrically Wavelength-Tunable On-Chip Optical Amplifiers

Lehigh University, Professor Ivan Biaggio and Professor Junpeng Wang, Electrically Poled Vapor-Deposited Organic Glasses for Nanophotonic Electro-Optic Modulators

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Professor John Dallesasse, Long-Wavelength 1550nm VCSELs for Optical Communication

University of Pittsburgh, Professor Kevin Chen & University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Professor Yong Feng Lu, Femtosecond Laser Bonding of Diamond and Diamond Copper

University of Rochester, Professor Jannick Rolland and Professor Nick Vamivakas, Establishing and Verifying the Fundamental Optical and Material Capabilities and Limitations of Metasurfaces

OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Boston University, Professor Siddarth Ramachandran, Petabit-per-second Scale Optical Amplifiers by Exploiting Light’s Topological Complexity

University Of Southern California, Berkeley, Professor Mengjie Yu, Photonics-Electronics Codesign and Co-packaging for Computing and Networking

Quantum

Harvard University, Professor Neil Sinclair and Professor Marko Loncar, Scalable and Efficient Wavelength Converters for Lasers and Non-classical Light

Penn State University, Professor Stephanie Law, Site-Controlled and Size-controlled Synthesis of Quantum Dots

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Professor Christopher Anderson, Electrically Tunable on-chip Quantum Entanglement in SiC Photonics

University of Texas at Austin, Professor Linran Fan, Photonic Interconnection for Diamond Color Centers and Superconducting Circuits

Vanderbilt University, Professor Matthew Day, Terahertz Quantum Building Blocks

Ultra WBG Semiconductors

Arizona State University, Professor Nidhin Kalarickal, Diamond Static Induction Transistors for Low to Medium Voltage Power Switching

Stanford University, Professor Srabanti Chowdhury, Advancing Diamond Semiconductor Technology for High-Temperature Devices for Power Conversion Applications

University of Buffalo, Professor Uttam Singisetti, Next Generation Ultrawide-Bandgap Electronics

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Professor Can Bayram, Diamond Power Semiconductor Devices