Nobby

Nobuhiko P. Kobayashi 

Before UCSC: University of Southern California, Agilent Labs, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Hewlett-Packard Labs

Motto: Hard work does not guarantee success, but success is only built upon hard work.

Likes: No line at the Heavenly Gondola, margarita at Seascape, surfing in Niijima, electric guitars, red wine, dark chocolate, lamb curry, smooth surface on an epitaxial layer, crisp electron diffraction pattern, highly non-linear current-voltage curves

Dislikes: Missing item in a Friday take-out, chain-control for a few miles around the HW50 summit, meeting without a clear agenda, not-well maintained SEM, film jam in TEM, small leak in MBE, hydrogen purifier in MOCVD. no deposition in ALD

Nobby joined UCSC in April 2008. Prior to UCSC, Nobby was involved in developing electronic materials for ultra-high density memristive devices to build memories and logics required for future computing systems at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories. He was also involved in semiconductor nanowire photonics for optical interconnect necessary for advanced computing systems. Prior to Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Nobby worked at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, developing semiconductor materials for both ultra-high speed diagnosis systems required for the National Ignition Facility funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and the optical code division multiple access (optical-CDMA) funded by Defense Advanced Research Project Agency. Nobby was also at Agilent Laboratories, developing light emitting diodes, vertical cavity surface emitting lasers, and hetero bipolar transistors for both ultra-wide band fiber-optics and wireless communications. Nobby earned his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in materials science from University of Southern California in 1994 and 1998.