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An NSF I-Corps award funds customer-discovery on an undeployed nanoplasmonic optical-modulator platform with no commercial licensee.
NSF has awarded an I-Corps translation grant to an academic team for a metasurface plasmon-polariton modulator platform that reports ~100x lower switching power, but the technology is unproven commercially and no licensee, vendor, or production partner is named.
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Potential commercial applications include low-power optical interconnects, switching elements for optical and brain-inspired computing, hardware for secure communication, and compact sensing and imaging devices. This may allow an optical signal to be controlled at roughly one hundred times lower power than conventional focused light methods.
- TARGET STATE
- Early-stage academic research team holding a lab-demonstrated (nonlocal pump-probe, ~90x lower pump power) nanoplasmonic platform; I-Corps funding is allocated to industry-ecosystem assessment, with no commercial licensee, fabricator, or product vendor selected and no deployment evidence.
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