Inventor · Fremont, CA, US

Yufeng Hu

32Patents
22h-index
35Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Aug 21, 2007 → May 26, 2020

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8634280B1 Method and system for providing an energy assisted magnetic recording writer having a ring shaped NFT Physics 177 Active
US8343364B1 Double hard-mask mill back method of fabricating a near field transducer for energy assisted magnetic recording Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 175 Active
US8385158B1 Method and system for providing a magnetic recording transducer having a planarized near-field transducer and a sloped pole Physics 173 Active
US8200054B1 High efficiency grating coupling for light delivery in EAMR Physics 170 Active
US8375565B2 Method for providing an electronic lapping guide corresponding to a near-field transducer of an energy assisted magnetic recording transducer Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 168 Active
US8077418B1 Reducing thermal protrusion of a near field transducer in an energy assisted magnetic recording head Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 166 Active
US8125856B1 Method and system for optically coupling a laser with a transducer in an energy assisted magnetic recording disk drive Physics 163 Active
US8307540B1 Method for providing an energy assisted magnetic recording (EAMR) transducer Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 163 Active
US8670295B1 Method and system for optically coupling a laser with a transducer in an energy assisted magnetic recording disk drive Physics 162 Active
US8565049B1 Method and system for reducing thermal protrusion of an NFT Physics 161 Active
US8491801B1 Method and system for providing an NFT using a sacrificial NFT structure Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 158 Active
US8721902B1 Method and system for providing an energy assisted magnetic recording writer having a heat sink and NFT Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 158 Active
US8077557B1 Multiple aperture VCSEL EAMR heads Physics 156 Active
US8279719B1 Method and system for coupling a laser with a slider in an energy assisted magnetic recording disk drive Physics 155 Active
US8259539B1 Integration of a vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) on an energy-assisted magnetic recording (EAMR) head Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 154 Active
US8208350B1 Energy assisted magnetic recording head having a near field transducer with reduced thermal protrusion Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 153 Active
US8495813B1 Method of making an energy-assisted magnetic recording apparatus Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 152 Active
US8456963B1 Method and system for an energy assisted magnetic recording head having a suspension-mounted laser Physics 148 Active
US8749790B1 Structure and method to measure waveguide power absorption by surface plasmon element Physics 137 Active
US8753903B1 Methods and apparatuses for performing wafer level characterization of a plasmon element Electricity 133 Active
US8758083B1 Method and system for adjusting lapping of a transducer using a disk windage Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 38 Active
US8773956B1 Bi-layer NFT-core spacer for EAMR system and method of making the same Physics 31 Active
US9449625B1 Heat assisted magnetic recording head having a plurality of diffusion barrier layers Physics 20 Active
US8834728B1 Method and system for providing an energy assisted magnetic recording writer having a self aligned heat sink and NFT Physics 7 Active
US9286920B1 Method for compensating for phase variations in an interferometric tapered waveguide in a heat assisted magnetic recording head Physics 6 Active

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