4. Gurtej Sandhu is an Indian inventor in the fields of thin
film processes and materials, VLSI and semiconductor
device fabrication. He is recognized as all-time fourth
most prolific inventor in the world as measured by number
of U.S. utility patents. Gurtej has 1,170 U.S. utility patents
as of July 7, 2015.Currently he is Senior Fellow and Director
of Advanced Technology developments at Micron
Technology, Inc.The publication Kiplinger reports, "Sandhu
developed a method of coating microchips with titanium
without exposing the metal to oxygen, which would ruin the
chips. Initially, he didn't think his idea was a big deal, but
now most memory-chip makers use the process." The
publication also states that Gurtej earned an electrical
engineering degree at the Indian Institute of Technology
Delhi and a physics PhD at the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill.
5. Senior Fellow, IEEE Fellow Advanced Technology
Development, Process R&D
Gurtej S. Sandhu is Senior Fellow and Director of
Advanced Technology developments at Micron
Technology, Inc. In his current role, he manages the
Emerging Memory Materials and Advanced
Technologies research and development at Micron. He
received degree in electrical engineering at the Indian
Institute of Technology, New Delhi and a Ph.D. degree
in physics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill, in 1990. Dr. Sandhu then joined Micron Technology,
where he
6. has been in a number of engineering and management
roles responsible for process technology development,
pilot manufacturing and transfers to manufacturing. He
has been actively involved with a broad range of
process technologies, such as ion implantation,
deposition technologies, plasma processing, CMP, Litho
and front-end and back-end module integration
technologies for IC processing. He has been associated
with microelectronics technology for over 20 years and
has pioneered a number of process technologies which
are currently employed in mainstream semiconductor
chip manufacturing. Moreover, he was involved with
introduction of a number of Atomic Layer Deposition
(ALD) based processes and innovative patterning
techniques for memory chip
7. technology. Dr. Sandhu has authored over 35 technical
papers and several hundred issued U.S. patents. Dr.
Sandhu is Fellow of IEEE.
8. Thomas Edison was widely known as the world's most prolific
inventor.[1][2] He held a total of 1,093 U.S. patents (1,084 utility patents and
9 design patents).[3] In 2003, he was passed
by Japanese inventor Shunpei Yamazaki.[4] On February 26, 2008,
Yamazaki was passed by Australian inventor Kia Silverbrook.[5]
9. inventors # of Patent
Families
country Active Main fields of
invention
Kia Silverbrook 4732 Australia 1994-2016 Printing, Digital
paper, Internet,
Electronics, CGI,
Chemical, DNA,
Lab-on-a-chip,
MEMS, Mechanical,
VLSI
Shunpei
Yamazaki
4388 Japan 1976-2016 Thin film
transistors,
Liquid crystal
displays, Solar
cells, Flash
memory, OLED
10. Paul Lapstun 1278 Australia 2000-2015 Printing,
Digital paper,
Internet,
Electronics,
CGI, VLSI
Lowell L.
Wood, Jr.
1265 USA 1977-2016 Mosquito laser,
Nuclear
weapons
Gurtej
Sandhu
1217 India 1991-2016 Thin film
processes and
materials,
VLSI,
Semiconductor
device
fabrication
11. Jun Koyama 1162 Japan 1991-2016 Thin film
transistors,
Liquid crystal
displays,
OLED
Leonard
Forbes
1084 Canada 1991-2016 Semiconductor
Memories,
CCDs, Thin
film processes
and materials,
VLSI
Thomas
Edison
1084 USA 1847(b)-
1931(d)
Electric power,
Lighting,
Batteries,
Phonograph,
Cement,
Telegraphy,
Mining