Minh Dao, Research Assistant
mpdao@scu.edu

Edward de Asis, Research Assistant
edeasis@scu.edu

Born and raised in San Francisco, California, Edward de Asis is a second generation Filipino American. He is currently pursuing a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Molecular and Cell Biology from the University of California, Berkeley in 2001 and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from San Francisco State University in 2004. His research interests include nanotechnology and integrated circuit design.

Nobuhiko Kobayashi, Research Consultant
nobby@eecs.berkeley.edu

Dr. Kobayashi joined the Center for Nanostructures at Santa Clara University as a research consultant in 2004. Currently he is also affiliated with Quantum Science Research at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories (Palo Alto, California) as a visiting scholar and Electronics Research Laboratory at University of California Berkeley (Berkeley, California) as a research associate. At Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, he is developing core structures and materials for a new class of nano-meter scale electrical switches / memories for future computing systems while, at UC Berkeley, he is involved in research on optoelectronics and biosensing applications based on nanostructures of group III-V compound semiconductors. Prior to his current appointments, Dr. Kobayashi worked at the Center for Micro and Nano Technology at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Livermore, California) from 2002 to 2004 as a scientist, developing semiconductor materials used in both ultra-high speed diagnosis systems for the National Ignition Facility and optoelectronic components for the Optical Code Division Multiple Access (DARPA funded project). From 1999 to 2001, Dr. Kobayashi was at Agilent Technologies, Inc. (Palo Alto, California), involved in developing III-V compound semiconductor materials for superior optoelectronic and electronic components, such as LEDs, VCSELs, and hetero-bipolar transistors, for both high-speed fiber-optics and wireless communications. Before coming to the U.S. in 1992, Dr. Kobayashi worked for HONDA R&D Co. Ltd. (Saitama, Japan) and Toshiba Co. (Yokohama, Japan), developing III-V compound semiconductors and amorphous semiconductors for solar cells, photodetectors, and MOS transistors. He earned his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Aoyama Gakuin University (Tokyo, Japan), M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Material Science from University of Southern California in 1998.

Dr. Shoba Krishnan, Professor
(408) 544-4666
skrishnan@scu.edu

Shoba Krishnan received her B. Tech. degree from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, India in 1987 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Michigan State University, East Lansing, in 1990 and 1993 respectively. From 1995 to 1999 she was with the Mixed-Signal Design Group at LSI Logic Corporation, Milpitas, CA where she worked on high-speed data communication IC design and testing. She is an Assistant Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California. Her current research interests include Analog and Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuit Design and Testing, and study of signal integrity and modeling issues in mixed-mode ICs.

Francisco Madriz, Research Assistant
franciscomadriz68@hotmail.com

Quoc Ngo, Research Assistant
qngo1@scu.edu

Quoc Ngo earned his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Oregon State University in 2001 and his M.S. from Santa Clara University in Electrical Engineering in 2003. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering at Santa Clara University. His primary research interest includes synthesis and modeling of carbon nanotube on-chip interconnects. He is also involved in developing a compact model for MOSFET gate-current. His summer internships at Intel Corporation from 1997-2002 have included Yield Analysis, Defect Metrology, Back-end Integration, and Interconnect Research and Development for developmental 300mm processes. Currently he is actively collaborating with the Center for Nanotechnology, NASA Ames Research Center in an initiative to incorporate carbon nanotubes into silicon-based technology.

Yusuke Ominami received his B.S. degree in engineering from Hokkaido University in 2000, and pursuing his M.S. degree in engineering in 2002, in Catalysis Research Center (CRC) in Hokkaido University. His graduate project focuses on Catalysts pattened by electron beam lithography. After graduation, he joined in Hitachi High-Technologies corporation. He was in charge of developments of SEM or FIB from 2002 to 2004. After that, he joined in Santa Clara university as visiting researcher. He is focusing on the development of CNT interconnect. His speciality is SEM, FIB, STEM, catalyst.

Cary Y. Yang, Professor/Director
(408) 544-6814
cyang@scu.edu

Click on the "Dr. Cary Yang" link for his biographical information.

Hans Yoong, Research Assistant
(408) 544-6873
hyoong@scu.edu

Hans T.W. Yoong received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Santa Clara University in 1997, and pursuing his M.S. degree in electrical engineering since September 1997, also in Santa Clara University. His graduate project focuses on SiGeC MOS capacitors physics and technology with another graduate student Fan. The fabrication of the devices are routinely done in partnership with other universities. Additional processing tasks are undertaken in Stanford Nanofabrication Facility under the National Science Foundation research grants. He now works as a design engineer at Alliance Semiconductor.

Sunil Yu received the B.S. degree in Physics from Seoul National University (SNU) in 1989 and M.S. degree from Pohang Institute of Science and Technology (POSTECH) in 1991. From 1991 to 2002 he was with the Semiconductor Division, Samsung Electronics, where he was engaged in the development of logic manufacturing process. Since 2002, he has been working toward the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). He is currently conducting his doctoral research in the Nanoelectronics Laboratory as a visiting researcher. His research interests include on-chip interconnect crosstalk noise and related issues in VLSI circuits.