Robert D. Burnham
77Patents
25h-index
18Co-inventors
81Inventor score
Filing activity: Oct 15, 1974 → Nov 5, 1990
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US4358851A | Fiber optic laser device and light emitter utilizing the device | Electricity | 119 | Expired |
| US4901330A | Optically pumped laser | Electricity | 93 | Expired |
| US4293826A | Hybrid semiconductor laser/detectors | Electricity | 53 | Expired |
| US4317085A | Channeled mesa laser | Electricity | 49 | Expired |
| US5008737A | Diamond composite heat sink for use with semiconductor devices | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 47 | Expired |
| US3954534A | Method of forming light emitting diode array with dome geometry | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 45 | Expired |
| US4369524A | Single component transceiver device for linear fiber optical network | Electricity | 45 | Expired |
| US4255717A | Monolithic multi-emitting laser device | Electricity | 42 | Expired |
| US4023993A | Method of making an electrically pumped solid-state distributed feedback laser | Electricity | 39 | Expired |
| US4251780A | Stripe offset geometry in injection lasers to achieve transverse mode control | Electricity | 39 | Expired |
| US4839899A | Wavelength tuning of multiple quantum well (MQW) heterostructure lasers | Electricity | 38 | Expired |
| US4328469A | High output power injection lasers | Electricity | 38 | Expired |
| US4831629A | Incoherent, optically coupled laser arrays with increased spectral width | Electricity | 38 | Expired |
| US5130771A | Diamond composite heat sink for use with semiconductor devices | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 36 | Expired |
| US3978428A | Buried-heterostructure diode injection laser | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 35 | Expired |
| US4871690A | Semiconductor structures utilizing semiconductor support means selectively pretreated with migratory defects | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 34 | Expired |
| US4309670A | Transverse light emitting electroluminescent devices | Electricity | 33 | Expired |
| US4875216A | Buried waveguide window regions for improved performance semiconductor lasers and other opto-electronic applications | Electricity | 33 | Expired |
| US4771010A | Energy beam induced layer disordering (EBILD) | Electricity | 32 | Expired |
| US4654090A | Selective disordering of well structures by laser annealing | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 31 | Expired |
| US4033796A | Method of making buried-heterostructure diode injection laser | Electricity | 30 | Expired |
| US4546480A | Injection lasers with quantum size effect transparent waveguiding | Electricity | 29 | Expired |
| US4882734A | Quantum well heterostructure lasers with low current density threshold and higher T.sub.O values | Electricity | 28 | Expired |
| US4824798A | Method of introducing impurity species into a semiconductor structure from a deposited source | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 28 | Expired |
| US4371966A | Heterostructure lasers with combination active strip and passive waveguide strip | Electricity | 26 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.