
Reza Abdolvand
batteryless MEMS radio-wave energy harvester and resonant sensors
Field 13 · 138 living inventors
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batteryless MEMS radio-wave energy harvester and resonant sensors

Integrated sensors, artificial-vision VLSI, and optoelectronic systems

Pong arcade video-game machine

High-temperature-superconductor and electronic-display technologies

Fitbit activity-tracker industrial design

Thin-film-transistor and printable-electronics technologies

printed flexible electronic devices and wearable sensors

Self-powered magnetoelectric vehicle sensor

Bulk-acoustic-wave silicon MEMS gyroscopes

Insulated-gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) power semiconductor

EUV lithography system

Original Arduino open-source microcontroller board

Skin-inspired electronic pressure-sensing system
PopSocket collapsible phone grip

littleBits modular electronic-building blocks

Divisumma 18 electronic printing calculator

Printed electronic memories based on ferroelectric polymers

Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector and cable interface

semiconductor nanophotonic and terahertz devices

Screen Skinz privacy screen protector with a disappearing image

Screen Skinz privacy screen protector with a disappearing image

Device-quality silicon carbide wafers

low-power mixed-signal integrated circuits

spaceborne terahertz and submillimeter-wave receiver instruments

Quantum-dot electronic and optoelectronic devices

Macronix high-density non-volatile-memory and 3D NOR flash products

Carbon-nanotube flat-panel display and nanoelectronic devices

BeagleBone Black single-board computer

Electronic ink display technology

Yellow LED and high-brightness AlInGaP LEDs

High-frequency semiconductor probe cards

Original Arduino open-source microcontroller board

Torus routing chip and parallel-computer interconnect architecture

licensed reconfigurable antenna systems for commercial wireless products

Ultrasonic MEMS fingerprint sensors

IBM PC Industry Standard Architecture peripheral bus

Soluble-semiconductor technologies for displays, lighting, solar energy, and sensing

Hollow-core-fiber optical networking technology

Magnetic and flash digital-storage technologies

Rocketbook reusable cloud-connected notebook

Apple IIc industrial design

Frequency-synthesizer and data-converter integrated circuits

Intel 4004 microprocessor

High-frequency semiconductor probe cards

Paper-based transistor

Electronic sensors, including tire-health monitors

Adafruit Feather and Circuit Playground development boards

Quik Pod selfie stick

ARM 32-bit RISC microprocessor

Virtual retinal display

Nanotechnology-based health, energy and environmental sensors

Parallax Propeller multicore microcontroller

DNA data-storage hardware method

In-situ crystal-growth diagnostics for LED manufacturing
Floating-gate EEPROM flash-memory technology

PalmPilot handheld computer

HDR displays and computational-camera technology

RISC microprocessor architecture

GaN p-n-junction blue light-emitting diode

Intel 4004 microprocessor architecture

RAMSAN solid-state drives and IBM FlashSystem storage systems

Digital Micromirror Device (DMD)

FinFET three-dimensional transistor

Apple iMac, iPod, iPhone and Apple Watch industrial design

Iron-nitride magnets, magnetic-storage, and spintronic-device technologies

Xerox Alto networked personal computer

Apple’s first production mouse

VLSI architectures for digital signal-processing and communications hardware

The first commercial digital mobile phone

Trapped-ion quantum-computer hardware

Microsoft HoloLens hardware platform

Chip-scale atomic clocks and atomic magnetometers

3D integrated-circuit, heterogeneous-integration, and advanced-packaging technologies

thin-film transistors, display panels, solar cells, and bio-optical sensors

PlayStation home-game console hardware

Xerox Alto networked personal computer
Rocketbook reusable cloud-connected notebook

Doped organic semiconductor devices

Millimeter-wave MEMS relays

Magnetic-storage, MRAM, and magnetic-field-sensor technologies

integrated photonic circuits and optical interconnect devices

Optoelectronic sensors, nanodevices, and solar-energy photocatalysis technologies

FinFET three-dimensional transistor

Substrate-plate-trench high-speed DRAM cells

Oculus Rift virtual-reality headset

MEMS GyroChip motion sensor

High-frequency semiconductor probe cards

EyeTap wearable computer

Intel 4004 microprocessor architecture

Guitar Hero guitar controller

Very-large-scale-integrated circuit design technology

Original Arduino open-source microcontroller board

MOS Technology 6502 microprocessor

Pebble smartwatch

Electron-nano-injection infrared detector for optical tomography

Low-power high-speed memory technology

USB flash drive

Cryogenic microwave sensor for quantum computers

Efficient blue LED

Spintronic hard-drive read-head materials

RISC microprocessor architecture

III-nitride-on-silicon power-electronics materials

Silicon-photonic optical-I/O chiplets

Single-chip USB flash-drive controller

Ferroelectric magnetoelectric logic and memory devices

low-power system-on-chip circuits and adaptive DSL hardware

OtterBox waterproof protective case

Nanoleaf modular smart-light panels

Soft wireless wearable bioelectronic sensors

2D-material and spintronic nanoelectronic transistors and solar cells

Flipstik adhesive smartphone stand

MEMS acoustic and micromachined transducers

high-performance microprocessor chip architecture

DNA data-storage hardware method

Teensy microcontroller development boards

Commercial semiconductor interposer and 3D-memory packaging products

Integrated magnetic and magnetoelectric microsystems

Ultra-low-power integrated circuits for wearable devices

SiGe logic transistors for consumer electronics

Flexible printed optical and mechanical sensor systems

High-frequency semiconductor probe cards

Intel Stratix and Cyclone field-programmable-gate-array chips

Commercial SiC and GaN power devices

High-frequency semiconductor probe cards

Three-axis MEMS motion sensor

Embedded-vision and post-CMOS electronic systems

Nanostructured optoelectronic devices, including LEDs and photovoltaics

Higher-capacity computer hard-disk drives

LARQ PureVis UV-C self-cleaning water bottle

Magnetic-domain convolutional accelerator device

Reconfigurable bilayer memristor devices
TikTok and LunaTik iPod nano watch kits

ARM RISC processor architecture

GaAlAs/GaAs heterojunction LEDs and semiconductor lasers

Apple I and Apple II personal computers

Metal-assisted chemical etching and semiconductor nanowire technologies

Memristor-based in-memory computing chip

organic light-emitting diode display technologies