Inventor · Ossining, NY, US

Solomon Assefa

85Patents
15h-index
69Co-inventors
83Inventor score

Filing activity: Jun 18, 2003 → Nov 11, 2019

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7790495B2 Optoelectronic device with germanium photodetector Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 74 Active
US8008095B2 Methods for fabricating contacts to pillar structures in integrated circuits Electricity 56 Active
US8633067B2 Fabricating photonics devices fully integrated into a CMOS manufacturing process Electricity 44 Active
US8178382B2 Suspended germanium photodetector for silicon waveguide Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 35 Active
US7738753B2 CMOS compatible integrated dielectric optical waveguide coupler and fabrication Physics 30 Active
US8304272B2 Germanium photodetector Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 27 Active
US7902620B2 Suspended germanium photodetector for silicon waveguide Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 22 Active
US8614116B2 Germanium photodetector Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 20 Active
US7825000B2 Method for integration of magnetic random access memories with improved lithographic alignment to magnetic tunnel junctions Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 16 Active
US9086387B2 Single-fiber noncritical-alignment wafer-scale optical testing Electricity 16 Active
US7531367B2 Utilizing sidewall spacer features to form magnetic tunnel junctions in an integrated circuit Electricity 16 Active
US7999344B2 Optoelectronic device with germanium photodetector Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 15 Active
US7897428B2 Three-dimensional integrated circuits and techniques for fabrication thereof Electricity 15 Active
US8455292B2 Deposition of germanium film Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 15 Active
US8426921B2 Three-dimensional integrated circuits and techniques for fabrication thereof Electricity 15 Active
US8129811B2 Techniques for three-dimensional circuit integration Electricity 13 Active
US8765536B2 Stress engineered multi-layers for integration of CMOS and Si nanophotonics Electricity 10 Active
US7955887B2 Techniques for three-dimensional circuit integration Electricity 10 Active
US8847338B2 Method for forming a self-aligned hard mask for contact to a tunnel junction Electricity 10 Active
US8772902B2 Fabrication of a localized thick box with planar oxide/SOI interface on bulk silicon substrate for silicon photonics integration Electricity 9 Active
US9368653B1 Silicon photonics integration method and structure Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 9 Active
US8846440B2 Germanium photodetector Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 7 Active
US7072547B2 Waveguide coupling into photonic crystal waveguides Physics 7 Expired
US10090422B2 Integrated photodetector waveguide structure with alignment tolerance Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 7 Active
US7492631B1 Methods involving resetting spin-torque magnetic random access memory Physics 7 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.