Simon Liao
74Patents
17h-index
46Co-inventors
84Inventor score
Filing activity: May 29, 1987 → Jun 17, 2014
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6773515B2 | FeTa nano-oxide layer as a capping layer for enhancement of giant magnetoresistance in bottom spin valve structures | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 111 | Expired |
| US7262941B2 | FeTa nano-oxide layer as a capping layer for enhancement of giant magnetoresistance in bottom spin valve structures | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 104 | Expired |
| US6292336A | Giant magnetoresistive (GMR) sensor element with enhanced magnetoresistive (MR) coefficient | Physics | 96 | Expired |
| US6466418B1 | Bottom spin valves with continuous spacer exchange (or hard) bias | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 90 | Expired |
| US6998150B2 | Method of adjusting CoFe free layer magnetostriction | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 72 | Expired |
| US6770382B1 | GMR configuration with enhanced spin filtering | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 43 | Expired |
| US4992901A | Self aligned magnetic poles using sacrificial mask | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 39 | Expired |
| US5379172A | Laminated leg for thin film magnetic transducer | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 31 | Expired |
| US7477491B2 | GMR device having an improved free layer | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 30 | Active |
| USD657594S1 | Chair | General | 29 | Expired |
| US8749926B1 | Scissor magnetic read head with wrap-around magnetic shield | Physics | 27 | Active |
| US7180712B1 | Shield structure design to improve the stability of an MR head | Electricity | 26 | Expired |
| US5748416A | Magnetoresistive playback head | Physics | 22 | Expired |
| US5372698A | High magnetic moment thin film head core | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 20 | Expired |
| US6882509B2 | GMR configuration with enhanced spin filtering | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 20 | Expired |
| US6857180B2 | Method for fabricating a patterned synthetic longitudinal exchange biased GMR sensor | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 19 | Expired |
| US6888703B2 | Multilayered structures comprising magnetic nano-oxide layers for current perpindicular to plane GMR heads | Physics | 18 | Expired |
| US7016168B2 | Method of increasing CPP GMR in a spin valve structure | Physics | 16 | Expired |
| US6754048B2 | Multiple magnetoresistive (MR) layer sensor element having longitudinal bias layers with non-parallel magnetizations | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 15 | Expired |
| US8836059B2 | Shape enhanced pin read head magnetic transducer with stripe height defined first and method of making same | Physics | 13 | Active |
| US6581272B1 | Method for forming a bottom spin valve magnetoresistive sensor element | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 12 | Expired |
| US8941954B2 | Magnetic sensor with extended pinned layer and partial wrap around shield | Electricity | 12 | Active |
| US6953601B2 | Synthetic free layer for CPP GMR | Physics | 12 | Expired |
| US4756816A | Electrodeposition of high moment cobalt iron | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 11 | Expired |
| US6396671B1 | Ruthenium bias compensation layer for spin valve head and process of manufacturing | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 10 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.