Inventor · Princeton, NJ, US

Tineke Thio

18Patents
13h-index
22Co-inventors
70Inventor score

Filing activity: Jun 20, 1995 → Jan 6, 2003

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6040936A Optical transmission control apparatus utilizing metal films perforated with subwavelength-diameter holes Physics 140 Expired
US5973316A Sub-wavelength aperture arrays with enhanced light transmission Performing Operations; Transporting 137 Expired
US6285020A Enhanced optical transmission apparatus with improved inter-surface coupling Physics 101 Expired
US6052238A Near-field scanning optical microscope having a sub-wavelength aperture array for enhanced light transmission Performing Operations; Transporting 101 Expired
US6236033A Enhanced optical transmission apparatus utilizing metal films having apertures and periodic surface topography Performing Operations; Transporting 100 Expired
US6441298B1 Surface-plasmon enhanced photovoltaic device Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 97 Expired
US6834027B1 Surface plasmon-enhanced read/write heads for optical data storage media Physics 61 Expired
US6707122B1 Extraordinary magnetoresistance at room temperature in inhomogeneous narrow-gap semiconductors Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 39 Expired
US6016376A Tapered coherent fiber bundle imaging device for near-field optical microscopy Physics 38 Expired
US6649901B2 Enhanced optical transmission apparatus with improved aperture geometry Physics 20 Expired
US5965283A GMR enhancement in inhomogeneous semiconductors for use in magnetoresistance sensors Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 18 Expired
US5696655A Self-biasing non-magnetic giant magnetoresistance Electricity 14 Expired
US6048632A Self-biasing, non-magnetic, giant magnetoresistance sensor Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 14 Expired
US7154820B2 Optical element for enhanced transmission of light and suppressed increase in temperature Physics 12 Expired
US6195228A Thin, horizontal-plane hall sensors for read-heads in magnetic recording Physics 10 Expired
US5920409A Optoelectronic devices using persistent photoconductivity Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 5 Expired
US6117690A Method of making thin, horizontal-plane hall sensors for read-heads in magnetic recording Physics 4 Expired
US5804842A Optically writing erasable conductive patterns at a bandgap-engineered heterojunction Electricity 3 Expired

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