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Prof. Dafei Jin received the 2026 Moore Foundation Experimental Physics Investigator Award, with $1.35M in research funding over 5 years, to develop a new platform for quantum networking.

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Prof. Dafei Jin and Prof. Yutian Wen received a $1.5M research grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) and the Laboratory for Physical Sciences (LPS) to develop the electron-on-solid-neon (eNe) charge qubits for fault-tolerant quantum computing (FTQC), in collaboration with Prof. Xuedong Hu's group at SUNY Buffalo and Prof. Amir Yacoby’s group at Harvard University.

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Prof. Dafei Jin and Prof. Edwin Huang received a 3-year $0.75M research grant from NSF to develop heterogeneous rare-gas quantum solids - a new class of condensed matter.

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Prof. Yutian Wen and Prof. Dafei Jin received a seed fund from an NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center.

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Prof. Dafei Jin received a sub-grant in a DOE QuantISED 2.0 project.

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Prof. Dafei Jin received a Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) award from DOD to purchase a Plasma-Enhanced Atomic Layer Deposition (PEALD) system that will significantly expand our capabilities in superconducting thin-film growth.

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Prof. Dafei Jin received a sub-grant in an NSF ExpandQISE Track 2 project, led by Florida A & M University (FAMU) with a total of $5M funding for 5 years, to support FAMU developing quantum research infrastructure and quantum education program.

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Prof. Sergei Sheludiakov and Prof. Dafei Jin received a seed fund from an NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center - Center for Quantum Technologies (CQT) between Notre Dame, Purdue, IU, and IUPUI - to seek a viable approach to scaling up the solid-neon-based qubit platform.

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Prof. Dafei Jin received $3.2M research grant from Air Force.

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