PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15874648
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["257", "228000"]

Abstract:
A method of image sensor fabrication includes growing a semiconductor material having an illuminated surface and a non-illuminated surface, where the semiconductor material includes silicon and germanium and a germanium concentration increases in a direction of the non-illuminated surface. The method further includes forming a plurality of photodiodes, including a doped region and a heavily doped region, in the semiconductor material, where the doped region is of an opposite majority charge carrier type as the heavily doped region. A plurality of isolation regions are formed and disposed between individual photodiodes in the plurality of photodiodes, where the plurality of isolation regions surround, at least in part, the individual photodiodes and electrically isolate the individual photodiodes.

Claim (Index 3):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein growing the semiconductor material includes:\n providing a silicon buffer layer; depositing a layer of antimony on the silicon buffer layer; and growing the semiconductor material including silicon and germanium, wherein the layer of antimony is disposed between the silicon buffer layer and the semiconductor material.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.23214
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15169477', '15786874', '12162999', '14974362', '15263936']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9116404274555172
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4906124628260942
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.869537630992575
- Mean Citation Score: 150.96529999999996
- Max Citation Score: 201.25893
- Similarity Product: 144.07499488317848

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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