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CMU Professor Secures $1.3M Grant for Quantum Research

10/10/2025

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Sufei Shi, Carnegie Mellon University Associate Professor, received a $1.3 million Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation grant.
The grant funds scalable platforms using moiré superlattices and nanofabrication to control excitons.
Shi's team published findings in Nature Photonics; researchers are part of 2025 Experimental Physics Investigators cohort.
University of Arizona's John Schaibley received a nanoscale materials grant for customizable quantum states.

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Sufei Shi, Carnegie Mellon University Associate Professor, received a $1.3 million Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation grant.
The grant funds scalable platforms using moiré superlattices and nanofabrication to control excitons.
Shi's team published findings in Nature Photonics; researchers are part of 2025 Experimental Physics Investigators cohort.
University of Arizona's John Schaibley received a nanoscale materials grant for customizable quantum states.