Inventor · San Diego, CA, US

Henry Shields

15Patents
11h-index
17Co-inventors
69Inventor score

Filing activity: Jan 19, 1990 → Mar 12, 2015

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6016324A Short pulse laser system Electricity 78 Expired
US5434875A Low cost, high average power, high brightness solid state laser Electricity 73 Expired
US5790574A Low cost, high average power, high brightness solid state laser Electricity 70 Expired
US5742634A Picosecond laser Electricity 63 Expired
US5940418A Solid-state laser system for ultra-violet micro-lithography Electricity 50 Expired
US5539764A Laser generated X-ray source Electricity 38 Expired
US6973164B2 Laser-produced plasma EUV light source with pre-pulse enhancement Electricity 36 Expired
US6855943B2 Droplet target delivery method for high pulse-rate laser-plasma extreme ultraviolet light source Electricity 24 Expired
US5089711A Laser plasma X-ray source Electricity 17 Expired
US5003543A Laser plasma X-ray source Electricity 17 Expired
US5491707A Low cost, high average power, high brightness solid state laser Electricity 15 Expired
US6835944B2 Low vapor pressure, low debris solid target for EUV production Electricity 9 Expired
US6933515B2 Laser-produced plasma EUV light source with isolated plasma Electricity 8 Expired
US6912267B2 Erosion reduction for EUV laser produced plasma target sources Electricity 4 Expired
US9362714B1 Architecture for all-fiber delivery of coherently combined laser power Electricity 2 Active

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