Inventor · Wheaton, IL, US

Robert D. Burnham

77Patents
25h-index
18Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Oct 15, 1974 → Nov 5, 1990

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
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.