Po-Kang Wang
151Patents
27h-index
98Co-inventors
93Inventor score
Filing activity: Dec 21, 1988 → Apr 18, 2022
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5018037A | Magnetoresistive read transducer having hard magnetic bias | Physics | 150 | Expired |
| US5343422A | Nonvolatile magnetoresistive storage device using spin valve effect | Physics | 99 | Expired |
| US9466319B1 | Perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) write shield design with minimized wide adjacent track erasure (WATE) | Physics | 80 | Active |
| US5768055A | Magnetic recording head having a carbon overcoat array on slider air bearings surfaces | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 78 | Expired |
| US5005096A | Magnetoresistive read transducer having hard magnetic shunt bias | Physics | 64 | Expired |
| US5508867A | Magnetoresistive sensor with flux keepered spin valve configuration | Physics | 62 | Expired |
| US5283942A | Sacrificial layer planarization process for fabricating a narrow thin film inductive head | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 59 | Expired |
| US5079663A | Magnetoresistive sensor with track following capability | Physics | 57 | Expired |
| US5079035A | Method of making a magnetoresistive read transducer having hard magnetic bias | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 56 | Expired |
| US7852662B2 | Spin-torque MRAM: spin-RAM, array | Physics | 54 | Active |
| US7064928B2 | Method and apparatus for providing an additional ground pad and electrical connection for grounding a magnetic recording head | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 54 | Expired |
| US8138561B2 | Structure and method to fabricate high performance MTJ devices for spin-transfer torque (STT)-RAM | Electricity | 53 | Active |
| US7105372B2 | Magnetic tunneling junction film structure with process determined in-plane magnetic anisotropy | Electricity | 51 | Expired |
| US5452165A | Close packed magnetic head linear array | Physics | 50 | Expired |
| US7391594B2 | Apparatus for providing an additional ground pad and electrical connection for grounding a magnetic recording head | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 45 | Active |
| US5285339A | Magnetoresistive read transducer having improved bias profile | Physics | 43 | Expired |
| US5664316A | Method of manufacturing magnetoresistive read transducer having a contiguous longitudinal bias layer | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 42 | Expired |
| US6943040B2 | Magnetic random access memory designs with controlled magnetic switching mechanism by magnetostatic coupling | Electricity | 35 | Expired |
| US6103136A | Method for forming a soft adjacent layer (SAL) magnetoresistive (MR) sensor element with transversely magnetically biased soft adjacent layer (SAL) | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 35 | Expired |
| US7345911B2 | Multi-state thermally assisted storage | Physics | 33 | Expired |
| US7486545B2 | Thermally assisted integrated MRAM design and process for its manufacture | Physics | 32 | Expired |
| US5073833A | Dual sector servo system for disk file with separate read and write heads | Physics | 31 | Expired |
| US7211874B2 | Magnetic random access memory array with free layer locking mechanism | Physics | 30 | Expired |
| US7995425B2 | Power control of TAMR element during read/write transition | Physics | 29 | Active |
| US6449131B2 | Canted longitudinal patterned exchange biased dual-stripe magnetoresistive (DSMR) sensor element and method for fabrication thereof | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 29 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.