The world’s first Ph.D. degrees in nanoscience from a college devoted exclusively to the study of nanoscale scientific concepts were awarded to Drs. Spyridon Skordas and Wanxue Zeng at College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) of the University at Albany – State University of New York.

Skordas’s Ph.D. dissertation examined metal organic chemical vapor deposition of aluminum oxide ultra-thin films for advanced transistor applications. Zeng explored plasma- assisted chemical vapor deposition of atomically controlled refractory thin films. Both dissertations target applications in nanoscale devices for emerging generations of computer nanochips.

UAlbany College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering news release