PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15743023
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["257", "079000"]

Abstract:
A hybrid growth method for III-nitride tunnel junction devices uses metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) to grow one or more light-emitting or light-absorbing structures and ammonia-assisted or plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) to grow one or more tunnel junctions. Unlike p-type gallium nitride (p-GaN) grown by MOCVD, p-GaN grown by MBE is conductive as grown, which allows for its use in a tunnel junction. Moreover, the doping limits of MBE materials are higher than MOCVD materials. The tunnel junctions can be used to incorporate multiple active regions into a single device. In addition, n-type GaN (n-GaN) can be used as a current spreading layer on both sides of the device, eliminating the need for a transparent conductive oxide (TCO) layer or a silver (Au) mirror.

Claim (Index 20):
The method of  claim 3 , wherein the device is a light-emitting diode (LED), and sheet resistance on both sides of the p-n junction is matched to reduce current crowding.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.63333
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15773864', '15793723', '15674077', '11362472', '11676999']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9372380928658164
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5581976628798383
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8993340498672184
- Mean Citation Score: 342.69963599999994
- Max Citation Score: 492.71997000000016
- Similarity Product: 290.52770730162626

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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