page_title: James R. Biard
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: James R. Biard / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Walter T. Matzen (top) and James R. Biard (bottom) demonstrate a low-drift d-c differential amplifier in 1958.
context_page_description: James R. "Bob" Biard is an American electrical engineer and inventor who holds 73 U.S. patents. Some of his more significant patents include the first infrared light-emitting diode, the optical isolator, Schottky clamped logic circuits, silicon Metal Oxide Semiconductor Read Only Memory, a low bulk leakage current avalanche photodetector, and fiber-optic data links. He has been on the staff of Texas A&M University as an Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering since 1980.
caption: Walter T. Matzen (top) and James R. Biard (bottom) demonstrate a low-drift DC differential amplifier at TI in 1958.[5]
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