Inventor · San Ramon, CA, US

Zhongyan Wang

27Patents
17h-index
37Co-inventors
77Inventor score

Filing activity: Jun 17, 2009 → Aug 25, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8320220B1 Method and system for providing an energy assisted magnetic recording disk drive having a non-conformal heat spreader Physics 194 Active
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
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
US8526275B1 Systems and methods for dissipating heat from a near-field transducer in an energy assisted magnetic recording assembly Physics 161 Active
US8248896B1 Method and system for providing an energy assisted magnetic recording disk drive having improved heat dissipation Physics 160 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
US8619512B1 Stress buffer for near-field transducer in energy assisted magnetic recording and methods for fabricating the same Physics 157 Active
US8422841B1 Double optical grating Physics 153 Active
US8325569B1 EAMR head having improved optical coupling efficiency Physics 152 Active
US8532450B1 Optical grating and method of manufacture Physics 150 Active
US8625941B1 Broadband reflective waveguide metal gratings and their formation Physics 149 Active
US8320722B1 Non-linear optical grating Physics 149 Active
US8749790B1 Structure and method to measure waveguide power absorption by surface plasmon element Physics 137 Active
US8773956B1 Bi-layer NFT-core spacer for EAMR system and method of making the same Physics 31 Active
US8958168B1 Method and system for providing an NFT having improved mechanical stability Physics 17 Active
US8724265B2 Trapezoidal back bias and trilayer reader geometry with predetermined magnetization shape Physics 14 Active
US8411393B2 Electrical lap guides and methods of using the same Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 12 Active
US8318030B2 Magnetic device definition with uniform biasing control Physics 11 Active
US8834728B1 Method and system for providing an energy assisted magnetic recording writer having a self aligned heat sink and NFT Physics 7 Active
US8964333B1 Energy assisted magnetic recording transducer having an electronic lapping guide corresponding to a near-field transducer Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 6 Active
USD1000917S1 Wine rack General 1 Active
US8896972B2 Magnetic read head with a read function feature Electricity 1 Active
USD1007976S1 Freestanding wine rack General 0 Active

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