NSF Ecosystem for Low-dimensional Electronics: Growth, Assembly, Nanoelectronics, and Translation (NSF ELEGANT)
This NSF OTASO funds ecosystem coordination and expert performer teams to translate low-dimensional electronics into manufacturable microelectronics capabilities across materials, process, device, manufacturing, and AI-accelerated development themes.
⚑ Other Transaction Agreement Solutions Offering (OTASO), not a standard grant. · Applicant restrictions are stated as federal contract; eligibility details require the attached solicitation. · Includes an ecosystem coordinator role plus expert performer teams across five translation themes.
This is a microelectronics/manufacturing and AI-translation opportunity centered on devices, circuits, process design kits, and manufacturing readiness, which is outside IPPRA’s social-behavioral risk/public-opinion, education policy, and weather/security survey lines. The team could only touch it indirectly through broader economic or technology-policy framing, but it is not plausibly a PI-level fit for anyone on this roster.
JUDGED AGAINST THE ROSTER'S PUBLICATION DOSSIER · GPT-5.4-MINI · 2026-09-18
Unit fits — one characterization, each unit's own rules
| Physical Sciences & Engineering (demo) | 90 strong | technical depth: central; funds applied research |
| Tom Love Innovation Hub | 45 partial | funds applied research; prototyping/demonstration stage; deep-tech content |
| IPPRA | 40 partial | outside portfolio topics; social/behavioral work is none; funds applied research |
Description
The NSF Ecosystem for Low-dimensional Electronics: Growth, Assembly, Nanoelectronics, and Translation (NSF ELEGANT) program will position the U.S. for success in translating advanced microelectronics technologies into next-generation capabilities for artificial intelligence, high-performance computing, advanced communications, and other key technology areas critical to national security and economic competitiveness. To achieve program objectives, this Other Transaction Agreement Solutions Offering (OTASO) seeking an Eecosystems Ccoordinator and Expert Performer Teams in five translation themes: Theme 1: Manufacturable Materials Platform. Theme 2: Process Technology and Process Design Kit. Theme 3: Device, Circuit and Full-Chip Demonstration. Theme 4: Manufacturing Readiness and Transition. Theme 5: AI-Enabled Acceleration. See OTASO and Additional Information attached to this posting for full details.
Eligibility
Applicant restrictions (federal contract). Set-aside: No Set aside used. Notice type: Solicitation. Organization: NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION / NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION / DIRECTORATE FOR TECHNOLOGY, INNOVATION, AND PARTNERSHIPS (TIP).
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