Dingkun Ren, Ph.D. focuses on patent prosecution in the hardware and software technologies fields. Dingkun utilizes his background in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, materials science, and chemical engineering to assist clients with drafting and prosecuting patents. His technical background includes semiconductors (Si, III-V, III-N), nanotechnology, nanophotonics, materials, solid-states, optoelectronics, displays, LEDs/lasers, vision sciences, low-dimensional materials, quantum wells/dots, single-photon emitters, single-photon detectors, infrared sensing, metal-organic chemical vapor deposition and molecular beam epitaxy (MOCVD/MBE), chip fabrication, analog/digital integrated circuits, biosensing, embedded systems, instruments, mechanics, spectroscopy, machine learning, numerical simulations, and programming.
Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, Dingkun was a display engineer at Apple Inc., focusing on display modules, display features, illumination solutions, and new display technology development. He worked cross-functionally with internal teams and external vendors and drove cross-functional discussions to develop innovative display technologies.
Prior to joining Apple, Dingkun was employed at Lumileds B.V. as a hardware engineer. There, he developed AlInGaP red LEDs and phosphor-converted white LEDs, and applied advanced LED architectures, including epitaxy, chips, and packages, to prototypes that met customers’ expectations. He researched LED chips covering vertical thin-films (VTFs), chip-scale packages (CSPs), and thin-film flip-chips (TFFCs) and leveraged their insights for product innovations.
Dingkun’s doctoral and postdoctoral work at UCLA focused on compound semiconductors, nanophotonics, low-dimensional materials, optoelectronics, infrared sensing, epitaxy, and low-dimensional optical device modeling. He published 12 first-author/co-first author articles in journals including Nano Letters, Nanoscale, Optics Letters, ACS Sensors, and Nanotechnology. He also contributed to more than 10 oral presentations at international conferences. Dingkun was also invited as a reviewer for more than 35 high-impact scientific journals and conferences, including Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Applied Physics, Optics Express, Scientific Reports, the Journal of Physical Chemistry C, IEEE International Conference on Nanotechnology, and more. In addition, Dingkun’s research was reported by worldwide media outlets such as Compound Semiconductor, Laser Focus World, Electronics Weekly, Semiconductor Today, and AZO Materials.Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification (2021)
CALI Awards for Contracts II, Civil Procedure I
SCU High Tech Law Certificate, Intellectual Property Specialization (with honors)