Kenneth William West
19Patents
6h-index
20Co-inventors
66Inventor score
Filing activity: May 31, 1983 → Dec 12, 2012
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5158908A | Distributed Bragg reflectors and devices incorporating same | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 59 | Expired |
| US6349454B1 | Method of making thin film resonator apparatus | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 45 | Expired |
| US4873833A | Apparatus comprising a high-vacuum chamber | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 37 | Expired |
| US6495409B1 | MOS transistor having aluminum nitride gate structure and method of manufacturing same | Electricity | 28 | Expired |
| US4667149A | Precision nondestructive testing of metals | Physics | 26 | Expired |
| US4752590A | Method of producing SOI devices | Electricity | 14 | Expired |
| US5363394A | Quantum wire laser | Performing Operations; Transporting | 6 | Expired |
| US5051791A | Apparatus comprising refractive means for elections | Electricity | 5 | Expired |
| US7960714B2 | Interfering excitations in FQHE fluids | Electricity | 5 | Active |
| US8324120B2 | Interfering excitations in FQHE fluids | Electricity | 4 | Active |
| US5311045A | Field effect devices with ultra-short gates | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 4 | Expired |
| US8633092B2 | Quantum well device | Performing Operations; Transporting | 4 | Active |
| US5219772A | Method for making field effect devices with ultra-short gates | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 3 | Expired |
| US5844930A | Quantum wire lasers | Performing Operations; Transporting | 1 | Expired |
| US8362461B2 | Quantum well device | Performing Operations; Transporting | 1 | Active |
| US6921726B2 | Growing smooth semiconductor layers | Electricity | 1 | Expired |
| US6661039B1 | Velocity-cooled hot-electron bolometric mixer/detector | Electricity | 1 | Expired |
| US7329595B2 | Deposition of carbon-containing layers using vitreous carbon source | Human Necessities | 0 | Expired |
| US7402779B2 | Effusion cell and method for use in molecular beam deposition | Chemistry; Metallurgy | 0 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.