Tu Chen
37Patents
20h-index
31Co-inventors
85Inventor score
Filing activity: Oct 16, 1978 → Oct 31, 2000
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6150015A | Ultra-thin nucleation layer for magnetic thin film media and the method for manufacturing the same | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 120 | Expired |
| US6086730A | Method of sputtering a carbon protective film on a magnetic disk with high sp.sup.3 content | Physics | 119 | Expired |
| US6068891A | Method for laser texturing a glass ceramic substrate and the resulting substrate | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 99 | Expired |
| US6156404A | Method of making high performance, low noise isotropic magnetic media including a chromium underlayer | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 85 | Expired |
| US6500567B1 | Ultra-thin nucleation layer for magnetic thin film media and the method for manufacturing the same | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 80 | Expired |
| US6482505B1 | Multi-layer texture layer | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 75 | Expired |
| US6013161A | Thin film magnetic alloy having low noise, high coercivity and high squareness | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 74 | Expired |
| US6730420B1 | Magnetic thin film recording media having extremely low noise and high thermal stability | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 73 | Expired |
| US4786564A | Method for manufacturing a magnetic disk having reduced bit shift, minimized noise, increased resolution and uniform magnetic characteristics, and the resulting disk | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 64 | Expired |
| US5673156A | Hard disk drive system having virtual contact recording | Physics | 52 | Expired |
| US4735540A | Robotic disk handler system | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 46 | Expired |
| US5846648A | Magnetic alloy having a structured nucleation layer and method for manufacturing same | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 41 | Expired |
| US5087481A | Method for texturing a magnetic disk silicate glass substrate | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 40 | Expired |
| US4202932A | Magnetic recording medium | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 39 | Expired |
| US4556291A | Magneto-optic storage media | Electricity | 32 | Expired |
| US5180640A | Magnetic recording medium comprising a magnetic alloy layer of cobalt nickel, platinum and chromium formed directly on a nickel alloy amorphous underlayer | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 30 | Expired |
| US4595481A | Disk carrier | Physics | 28 | Expired |
| US5658659A | Magnetic alloy and method for manufacturing same | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 23 | Expired |
| US4898774A | Corrosion and wear resistant magnetic disk | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 23 | Expired |
| US4749459A | Method for manufacturing a thin film magnetic recording medium | Physics | 20 | Expired |
| US5851688A | Thin film magnetic alloy having low noise, high coercivity, and high squareness | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 19 | Expired |
| US4988578A | Method for manufacturing a thin film magnetic recording medium | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 19 | Expired |
| US5153044A | Magnetic disk for longitudinal recording comprising an amorphous intermediate layer | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 19 | Expired |
| US4634512A | Disk and plug | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 16 | Expired |
| US5631094A | Magnetic alloy for improved corrosion resistance and magnetic performance | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 16 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.