IEN Exponential Electronics Seed Grant Program

The Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology’s Exponential Electronics (IEN-E^X) program supports early-stage research and development to create revolutionary electronic systems. IEN-E^X provides seed funding for Georgia Tech researchers to pursue “1000x” ideas within electronics or that bridge electronics with other technical domains. “1000x” ideas are those with the potential to improve one or more well-defined, but often overlooked or underappreciated, performance metrics by at least 1000x.

Proposals are due October 16, 2023.

Learn more and submit a proposal. 

IEN Core Facilities Seed Grant Program

The Georgia Tech IEN is an Interdisciplinary Research Institute (IRI) comprised of faculty and students interested in using the most advanced facilities for fabrication, characterization, and cleanroom processes, to facilitate research in micro- and nano-scale materials, devices, and systems. Applications of this research span all disciplines in science and engineering with particular emphasis on biomedicine, electronics, optoelectronics and photonics, and energy applications. As there can be a learning curve associated with initial proof-of-concept development and testing using cleanroom tools, this seed grant program was developed to expedite the initiation of new graduate students and new research projects into productive activity. Successful proposals to this program will identify a new, currently-unfunded research idea that requires core facility access to generate preliminary data necessary to pursue other funding avenues.

Applications are currently closed for this seed grant. The next round of applications will open in the Spring of 2024.