PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15947683
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["136", "244000"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods taught herein provide thin film semiconductor devices such as thin film photovoltaic devices having via holes that enable electrical connection with a bottom surface of a topside contact of the thin film semiconductor device via the back side of the device (e.g., during mounting of the device). In some embodiments, the via holes are electrically insulated.

Claim (Index 16):
A method for fabricating a thin film photovoltaic device, the method comprising:\n providing a thin film photovoltaic structure including: a semiconductor region having an emitter region and a base region, a topside contact disposed on a top surface of the semiconductor region, and a bottom backside contact disposed on a bottom backside surface of the semiconductor region facing away from the top surface, the thin film photovoltaic structure free of a substrate on which the semiconductor layers were formed; and forming a via hole extending through the bottom backside contact and through the semiconductor region, the via hole having an open end and a closed end and exposing a portion of a bottom surface of the topside contact through the open end, the exposed portion of the topside contact forming at least a portion of the closed end of the via hole.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.47727
- Patent Class: 136.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11509886', '14137172', '13340877', '12857549', '13562712']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7777775667131027
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4765557682188217
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7476553868636746
- Mean Citation Score: 186.50198
- Max Citation Score: 198.66367
- Similarity Product: 154.18243216211798

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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