Graduate Position Available - Please see below

 Interested in joining the group or learning more about us? Email Dr. Gallis 

Undergraduate Students

Quantum Science and Engineering: Research Experiences for High School Students

SGNano Research Nanoengineering Education Consortium with Albany’s Tech Valley High School, SUNY Poly’s Outreach - Albany NanoTech Complex and industrial partners.

Its mission is to enhance exposure and improve pathways to career success for students -especially women and minorities- in the Quantum Technology and Engineering (QTE) fields of STEM education, focusing on how Nanoengineering can enable Quantum Photonics.

Previous Alumni

Undergraduate Students

Undergraduate Students

Vikram Oruganti (University at Buffalo - Electrical Engineering) - Summer 2021

Research Topic: Emerging Anisotropic Layered GaTe Materials

Ben Harrington (Graduate student - University of Rochester) - Summer 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019

Research Topic: Modeling of Erbium Emission in Novel Silicon Carbide Photonic Crystal Nanostructures

Received undergraduate student poster presentation award at the Hudson Mohawk Chapter American Vacuum Society (AVS) symposium

Alex Kaloyeros (Graduate student - SUNY Polytechnic Institute) – Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Summer 2019

Research Topic: Acousto-Optic Modulation for Time-Resolved Photoluminescence of Novel Nanophotonic Structures

Daniel Cross (Undergraduate student - Florida Polytechnic University) – Summer 2019

Research Topic: Process Development of Stochiometric Polycrystalline SiC Through Chemical Vapor Deposition

Daniel Santos (Graduate research assistant - SUNY Polytechnic Institute) – Summer 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019

Research Topic: Investigation of the Anisotropy in GaTe through Optical and Structural Characterization

Aadithya Nair (Undergraduate student - SUNY Polytechnic Institute) – Fall 2018

Research Topic: Finite-Difference Time-Domain Analysis

Owais Raza (Undergraduate student - SUNY Polytechnic Institute) – Fall 2018

Research Topic: Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) Studies

Lukas Katko (Engineer - MACOM Technology Solutions) - Fall 2017, Spring 2018

Research Topic (Honors Capstone): Investigation of Erbium-Doped Silicon Carbide Photonic Nanostructures for Quantum Memory Applications

Connor Miller - Summer 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018

Research Topic: Exploring the Optical Behavior of Ion Implanted in 20nm Silicon Oxycarbide Nanowires

Kevin Shah (Graduate research assistant - SUNY Polytechnic Institute) – Summer 2017 

Research Topic: Fabrication and Characterization of Metal Contacts for Silicon Carbide Thin-Film MOS Capacitors 

Adam Janover (Graduate research assistant - SUNY Polytechnic Institute) - Spring 2017

Research Topic: Ultra-thin Self-aligned Silicon Carbide Nanowire Arrays

Nick Yun (Graduate research assistant - SUNY Polytechnic Institute) - Fall 2016, Spring 2017 

Research Topic: Synthesis and Growth Optimization of Silicon Carbide Thin Films via Chemical Vapor Deposition.

Miqdad Raza (Graduate student - UC Davis) - Fall 2016, Spring 2017 

Research Topic: Characterization of Thin Films and Layered (2D) Materials Using Spectroscopic Ellipsometry, Photoluminescence, and Raman spectroscopy.

Casey Biederman (Process engineer - GLOBALFOUNDRIES) - Fall 2016, Spring 2017 

Research Topic: Modulation of Photoluminescence Emission of Silicon Oxycarbide Structures 

Lukas Kiehl (BEOL engineer - GLOBALFOUNDRIES) - Summer 2015, Fall 2016, Spring 2017 

Research Topic: Deposition and Characterization of Chemical-Vapor-Deposited Silicon Oxycarbide Thin Films 

Maik Katko (Device integration engineer - MACOM Technology Solutions) - Summer 2015, Fall 2016, Spring 2017 

Research Topic: Experimentation and Data Analysis on the Temperature Dependence of Amorphous Silicon Oxycarbide Thin Films