Field 13 · 138 living inventors

Electronics & Computing Hardware

Chips, components and computing devices that made digital capability physically possible.

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Reza Abdolvand speaking in a University of Central Florida laboratory
Electronics & Computing Hardware

Reza Abdolvand

batteryless MEMS radio-wave energy harvester and resonant sensors

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Portrait of Albert H. Titus
Electronics & Computing Hardware

Albert H. Titus

Integrated sensors, artificial-vision VLSI, and optoelectronic systems

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Portrait of Alex Ignatiev
Electronics & Computing Hardware

Alex Ignatiev

High-temperature-superconductor and electronic-display technologies

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Gadi Amit

Fitbit activity-tracker industrial design

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Portrait of Zhenan Bao
Electronics & Computing Hardware

Zhenan Bao

Skin-inspired electronic pressure-sensing system

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Portrait of Ayah Bdeir
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Ayah Bdeir

littleBits modular electronic-building blocks

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Portrait of USB co-inventor Ajay V. Bhatt.
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Ajay V. Bhatt

Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector and cable interface

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Portrait of RaShaun Brown
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RaShaun Brown

Screen Skinz privacy screen protector with a disappearing image

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Portrait of Clay Canning
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Clay Canning

Screen Skinz privacy screen protector with a disappearing image

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Portrait of Wonbong Choi
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Wonbong Choi

Carbon-nanotube flat-panel display and nanoelectronic devices

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Portrait of Bill Dally
Electronics & Computing Hardware

Bill Dally

Torus routing chip and parallel-computer interconnect architecture

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Kapil Dandekar
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Kapil Dandekar

licensed reconfigurable antenna systems for commercial wireless products

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Portrait of Donal D.C. Bradley
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Donal D.C. Bradley

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

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Portrait of Fa Foster Dai
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Fa Foster Dai

Frequency-synthesizer and data-converter integrated circuits

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Portrait of Limor Fried
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Limor Fried

Adafruit Feather and Circuit Playground development boards

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Portrait of Jung Han
Electronics & Computing Hardware

Jung Han

In-situ crystal-growth diagnostics for LED manufacturing

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Eli Harari - Eli Harari at the National Inventors Hall of Fame Illumination Ceremony
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Eli Harari

Floating-gate EEPROM flash-memory technology

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Portrait of Jony Ive
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Jony Ive

Apple iMac, iPod, iPhone and Apple Watch industrial design

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Portrait of Jian-Ping Wang
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Jian-Ping Wang

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

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Portrait of Keshab K. Parhi
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Keshab K. Parhi

VLSI architectures for digital signal-processing and communications hardware

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Portrait of Kuan-Neng Chen
Electronics & Computing Hardware

Kuan-Neng Chen

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

Yue Kuo
Electronics & Computing Hardware

Yue Kuo

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

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Joe Lemay

Rocketbook reusable cloud-connected notebook

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Portrait of Liesl Folks
Electronics & Computing Hardware

Liesl Folks

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

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Portrait of Lih-Yuan Lin
Electronics & Computing Hardware

Lih-Yuan Lin

integrated photonic circuits and optical interconnect devices

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Portrait of Ling Zang
Electronics & Computing Hardware

Ling Zang

Optoelectronic sensors, nanodevices, and solar-energy photocatalysis technologies

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Portrait of Nicky Lu
Electronics & Computing Hardware

Nicky Lu

Substrate-plate-trench high-speed DRAM cells

Portrait of Carver Mead
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Carver Mead

Very-large-scale-integrated circuit design technology

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Portrait of Hooman Mohseni
Electronics & Computing Hardware

Hooman Mohseni

Electron-nano-injection infrared detector for optical tomography

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Portrait of Edwin Piner
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Edwin Piner

III-nitride-on-silicon power-electronics materials

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Portrait of Sanjay Banerjee
Electronics & Computing Hardware

Sanjay Banerjee

2D-material and spintronic nanoelectronic transistors and solar cells

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Portrait of Tse Nga Ng
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Tse Nga Ng

Flexible printed optical and mechanical sensor systems

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Portrait of Vaughn Betz
Electronics & Computing Hardware

Vaughn Betz

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

Portrait of Xiuling Li
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Xiuling Li

Metal-assisted chemical etching and semiconductor nanowire technologies

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Yasha Yi wearing his National Academy of Inventors medal
Electronics & Computing Hardware

Yasha Yi

organic light-emitting diode display technologies

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