Inventor · Lexington, MA, US

Charles M. Lieber

67Patents
24h-index
72Co-inventors
91Inventor score

Filing activity: Jul 16, 1991 → Apr 29, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6190634A Carbide nanomaterials Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 661 Expired
US5997832A Preparation of carbide nanorods Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 350 Expired
US5897945A Metal oxide nanorods Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 339 Expired
US6781166B2 Nanoscopic wire-based devices and arrays Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 246 Expired
US7129554B2 Nanosensors Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 244 Expired
US6036774A Method of producing metal oxide nanorods Electricity 227 Expired
US6159742A Nanometer-scale microscopy probes Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 211 Expired
US5252835A Machining oxide thin-films with an atomic force microscope: pattern and object formation on the nanometer scale Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 168 Expired
US5840435A Covalent carbon nitride material comprising C.sub.2 N and formation method Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 131 Expired
US5196396A Method of making a superconducting fullerene composition by reacting a fullerene with an alloy containing alkali metal Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 120 Expired
US6743408B2 Direct growth of nanotubes, and their use in nanotweezers Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 101 Expired
US7254151B2 Nanoscale coherent optical components Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 101 Expired
US7301199B2 Nanoscale wires and related devices Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 95 Expired
US6716409B2 Fabrication of nanotube microscopy tips Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 93 Expired
US7172953B2 Methods of forming nanoscopic wire-based devices and arrays Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 89 Expired
US7211464B2 Doped elongated semiconductors, growing such semiconductors, devices including such semiconductors and fabricating such devices Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 75 Expired
US7256466B2 Nanosensors Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 74 Expired
US6900479B2 Stochastic assembly of sublithographic nanoscale interfaces Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 47 Expired
US6963077B2 Sublithographic nanoscale memory architecture Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 43 Expired
US7619290B2 Nanosensors Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 41 Active
US8698481B2 High-resolution molecular sensor Physics 37 Active
US7385267B2 Nanosensors Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 37 Active
US7073157B2 Array-based architecture for molecular electronics Electricity 31 Expired
US7399691B2 Methods of forming nanoscopic wire-based devices and arrays Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 24 Expired
US7666708B2 Doped elongated semiconductors, growing such semiconductors, devices including such semiconductors, and fabricating such devices Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 22 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.