Matthew V Metz

Matthew Metz was born in Wayne, NB, in 1973. He received the B.S. degree in chemistry from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, in 1996, and the M.S. degree in chemistry and Ph.D. degree in inorganic chemistry from Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, in 1998 and 2002, respectively. His thesis concerned the development of co-catalysts for Ziegler–Natta olefin polymerization. In 2002, he joined the Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, OR, where he is currently a Staff Process Engineer involved with gate dielectric films for future transistor generations. He has authored five papers. He holds two patents on high-$\kappa$/metal gate integration and nanotechnology applications.