Federico Capasso
104Patents
23h-index
135Co-inventors
93Inventor score
Filing activity: Sep 19, 1980 → Dec 4, 2023
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5457709A | Unipolar semiconductor laser | Electricity | 90 | Expired |
| US4945393A | Floating gate memory circuit and apparatus | Electricity | 67 | Expired |
| US4905063A | Floating gate memories | Electricity | 64 | Expired |
| US6326646A | Mounting technology for intersubband light emitters | Electricity | 53 | Expired |
| US4686550A | Heterojunction semiconductor devices having a doping interface dipole | Electricity | 50 | Expired |
| US6400744B1 | Apparatus comprising a quantum cascade laser having improved distributed feedback for single-mode operation | Electricity | 48 | Expired |
| US5509025A | Unipolar semiconductor laser | Electricity | 45 | Expired |
| US6134257A | Solid state laser for operation in librational modes | Electricity | 42 | Expired |
| US6816530B2 | Nonlinear semiconductor light sources | Electricity | 38 | Expired |
| US7826509B2 | Broadly tunable single-mode quantum cascade laser sources and sensors | Electricity | 38 | Active |
| US6501783B1 | Distributed feedback surface plasmon laser | Electricity | 35 | Expired |
| US6690699B2 | Quantum cascade laser with relaxation-stabilized injection | Electricity | 34 | Expired |
| US5901168A | Article comprising an improved QC laser | Electricity | 34 | Expired |
| US4476477A | Graded bandgap multilayer avalanche photodetector with energy step backs | Electricity | 32 | Expired |
| US4794440A | Heterojunction bipolar transistor | Electricity | 30 | Expired |
| US4383269A | Graded bandgap photodetector | Electricity | 30 | Expired |
| US5570386A | Semiconductor laser | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 29 | Expired |
| US5936989A | Quantum cascade laser | Electricity | 28 | Expired |
| US4849799A | Resonant tunneling transistor | Electricity | 27 | Expired |
| US10408416B2 | Achromatic metalens and metalens with reverse chromatic dispersion | Performing Operations; Transporting | 27 | Active |
| US4590507A | Variable gap devices | Electricity | 25 | Expired |
| US5502787A | Article comprising a semiconductor waveguide structure | Electricity | 24 | Expired |
| US8848273B2 | Amplitude, phase and polarization plate for photonics | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 23 | Active |
| US5311009A | Quantum well device for producing localized electron states for detectors and modulators | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 22 | Expired |
| US4902912A | Apparatus including resonant-tunneling device having multiple-peak current-voltage characteristics | Physics | 22 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.