PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16083070
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["257", "431000"]

Abstract:
A photoelectric conversion element includes: a first compound semiconductor layer  31  made of a first compound semiconductor material having a first conductivity type; a photoelectric conversion layer  34  formed on the first compound semiconductor layer  31;  a second compound semiconductor layer  32  covering the photoelectric conversion layer  34  and made of a second compound semiconductor material having the first conductivity type; a second conductivity type region  35  formed at least in a part of the second compound semiconductor layer  32,  having a second conductivity type different from the first conductivity type, and reaching the photoelectric conversion layer; an element isolation layer  34  surrounding a lateral surface of the photoelectric conversion layer; a first electrode  51  formed on the second conductivity type region; and a second electrode  52  electrically connected to the first compound semiconductor layer  31.

Claim (Index 18):
A method for manufacturing a photoelectric conversion element, comprising the steps of:\n (A) forming an element isolation layer forming region on a substrate having a first conductivity type to obtain a first compound semiconductor layer surrounded by the element isolation layer forming region and constituted by a surface region of the substrate; (B) forming a photoelectric conversion layer on the first compound semiconductor layer and the element isolation layer forming region; (C) forming a second compound semiconductor layer made of a second compound semiconductor material having the first conductivity on the photoelectric conversion layer; (D) removing portions of the second compound semiconductor layer and the photoelectric conversion layer, which are positioned above the element isolation layer forming region, and embedding an element isolation layer forming material in the removed portions to obtain an element isolation layer; (E) forming a second conductivity type region in the second compound semiconductor layer, the second conductivity type region having a second conductivity type different from the first conductivity type and reaching the photoelectric conversion layer; and (F) forming a first electrode on the second conductivity type region and forming a second electrode electrically connected to the first compound semiconductor layer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 19.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.97959
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15744917', '12857820', '13159579', '15370842', '14316369']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.923155008695055
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5124432055782938
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8820838283833788
- Mean Citation Score: 275.039676
- Max Citation Score: 317.35822
- Similarity Product: 265.73576635803346

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

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