H01S 5/3416
Tunneling through barriers
Official title: {tunneling through barriers}
H01S5/3416 (Tunneling through barriers) appears on 69 US grants and 95 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H01S- Granted patents
- 69
- Published applications
- 95
- Assignees
- 72
- Inventors
- 226
- Latest grant
- 25 Nov 2025
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| 2024 | 4 | 18 |
| 2025 | 10 | 13 |
| 2026 | 0 | 6 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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- Semiconductor devices and methods35US 6,753,273 B2Board of Regents, The University of Texas System · 2004
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