Robert L. Thornton
65Patents
26h-index
52Co-inventors
91Inventor score
Filing activity: Aug 7, 1980 → Sep 18, 2007
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6201633A | Micro-electromechanical based bistable color display sheets | Electricity | 312 | Expired |
| US5944537A | Photolithographically patterned spring contact and apparatus and methods for electrically contacting devices | Electricity | 117 | Expired |
| US5978408A | Highly compact vertical cavity surface emitting lasers | Electricity | 114 | Expired |
| US6372356B1 | Compliant substrates for growing lattice mismatched films | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 96 | Expired |
| US4802182A | Monolithic two dimensional waveguide coupled cavity laser/modulator | Electricity | 79 | Expired |
| US5062115A | High density, independently addressable, surface emitting semiconductor laser/light emitting diode arrays | Electricity | 68 | Expired |
| US5337074A | Opto-electronic line printer having a high density, independently addressable, surface emitting semiconductor laser/light emitting diode array | Electricity | 64 | Expired |
| US6002705A | Wavelength and polarization multiplexed vertical cavity surface emitting lasers | Electricity | 62 | Expired |
| US5384797A | Monolithic multi-wavelength laser diode array | Electricity | 59 | Expired |
| US5708674A | Semiconductor laser or array formed by layer intermixing | Electricity | 53 | Expired |
| US6603781B1 | Multi-wavelength transmitter | Electricity | 52 | Expired |
| US6246708A | Semiconductor laser with associated electronic components integrally formed therewith | Electricity | 49 | Expired |
| US4870652A | Monolithic high density arrays of independently addressable semiconductor laser sources | Electricity | 48 | Expired |
| US7283242B2 | Optical spectroscopy apparatus and method for measurement of analyte concentrations or other such species in a specimen employing a semiconductor laser-pumped, small-cavity fiber laser | Electricity | 47 | Expired |
| US6208681A | Highly compact vertical cavity surface emitting lasers | Electricity | 44 | Expired |
| US5386428A | Stacked active region laser array for multicolor emissions | Electricity | 40 | Expired |
| US4831629A | Incoherent, optically coupled laser arrays with increased spectral width | Electricity | 38 | Expired |
| US6297068A | Method for highly compact vertical cavity surface emitting lasers | Electricity | 34 | Expired |
| US4875216A | Buried waveguide window regions for improved performance semiconductor lasers and other opto-electronic applications | Electricity | 33 | Expired |
| US4830983A | Method of enhanced introduction of impurity species into a semiconductor structure from a deposited source and application thereof | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 32 | Expired |
| US5162239A | Laser crystallized cladding layers for improved amorphous silicon light-emitting diodes and radiation sensors | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 31 | Expired |
| US5319655A | Multiwavelength laterally-injecting-type lasers | Electricity | 31 | Expired |
| US5210766A | Laser crystallized cladding layers for improved amorphous silicon light-emitting diodes and radiation sensors | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 30 | Expired |
| US4731789A | Clad superlattice semiconductor laser | Electricity | 28 | Expired |
| US4824798A | Method of introducing impurity species into a semiconductor structure from a deposited source | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 28 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.