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The National Science Foundation (NSF) Electronics, Photonics, and Magnetic Devices (EPMD) program is a research grant opportunity focused on building deeper, more fundamental scientific and engineering understanding of electronic and photonic devices and the physical phenomena that make them work. At its core, the program supports discovery-driven work on devices and components rooted in micro- and nanoelectronics, photonics, magnetics, optoelectronics, electromagnetics, and electromechanics. The emphasis is on advancing device concepts and enabling technologies, not just incremental improvements, with the goal of pushing the boundaries of what is possible in information processing, sensing, communications, energy conversion, and related applications.

EPMD is broad and intentionally multidisciplinary, covering many device families and material systems. It encourages innovations across nanoelectronics and beyond-silicon approaches, including spin electronics, molecular and organic electronics, bioelectronics, non-silicon electronics, flexible and printed electronics, and microwave photonics. It also includes micro- and nano-electromechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS), along with sensors, actuators, power electronics, and mixed-signal devices. A recurring theme is moving past conventional scaling limits and opening new pathways for performance, functionality, and integration, including cooperative efforts with the semiconductor industry on “beyond Moore’s law” nanoelectronics concepts.

The program also explicitly supports work at the intersection of devices and emerging needs in communications and high-frequency systems. That includes quantum engineering topics tied to device and component development, as well as novel electromagnetic materials and high-frequency device solutions such as RF integrated circuits, reconfigurable antennas, and technologies relevant to wireless communications and telemedicine. In addition, EPMD highlights newer health- and human-centered directions like diagnostic devices and wearable or implantable technologies, reflecting the growing role of electronics and photonics in medical monitoring and intervention.

Another distinguishing feature is EPMD’s interest in tools and methods that enable nanoscale manipulation and measurement. The opportunity notes support for approaches that achieve nanoscale precision, including new methods for extreme ultraviolet (EUV) metrology. This signals that the program is not limited to end devices alone, but can also support measurement, characterization, and enabling techniques that are critical to building and validating next-generation device technologies.

From a proposal structure standpoint, EPMD allows and encourages collaborative research when the scope demands expertise spanning multiple disciplines. Within NSF’s Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems (ECCS), the program indicates it may support a limited number of small-team proposals involving three or more investigators from different disciplines and/or universities, aimed at tackling integrative, cross-cutting device challenges that a single lab cannot cover effectively.

The topical areas of interest are organized around several thrusts associated with program leadership, spanning: bioelectronics and biomagnetics; devices science and engineering beyond Moore’s law; quantum devices; magnetics, multiferroics, and spin electronics; and sensor devices and technologies. On the photonics side, interests include optoelectronics, lasers and photodetectors, optical fiber components, micro/nano photonics, photonic device integration, nonlinear optics, spectroscopy, and optical imaging. For high-frequency and electromagnetics-focused work, the scope includes microwave, millimeter-wave, and terahertz devices and circuits; next-generation and vacuum electronic devices; antennas; wave propagation and scattering; microwave metamaterials-based devices; and device/circuit simulation and modeling. The program also calls out flexible and printed electronics, light-emitting devices and displays, molecular/organic electronics and photonics, energy-efficient “green” electronics, and next-generation memory technologies such as memristors and other novel device concepts.

Administratively, this opportunity is an NSF discretionary grant program under CFDA 47.041 (Engineering Grants) with no cost-sharing requirement and broadly open eligibility (unrestricted, subject to any specific clarifications in the official text). The listing provided is an archived notice (PD 12-1517) that was later replaced by PD 13-1517, but it documents the program’s scope and interests. It also references annual supplement deadlines for REU/RET supplements (due April 1 each year) and two annual submission windows for proposals (September 7 to October 7, and January 7 to February 7, due by 5 p.m. local time). For access issues, the notice points applicants to NSF Grants.gov support.

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