PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16042535
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["257", "431000"]

Abstract:
Lateral and vertical microstructure enhanced photodetectors and avalanche photodetectors are monolithically integrated with CMOS/BiCMOS ASICs and can also be integrated with laser devices using fluidic assembly techniques. Photodetectors can be configured in a vertical PIN arrangement or lateral metal-semiconductor-metal arrangement where electrodes are in an inter-digitated pattern. Microstructures, such as holes and protrusions, can improve quantum efficiency in silicon, germanium and III-V materials and can also reduce avalanche voltages for avalanche photodiodes. Applications include optical communications within and between datacenters, telecommunications, LIDAR, and free space data communication.

Claim (Index 23):
The lateral microstructure-enhanced photodetector of  claim 1 , further including a light-absorbing layer that is over at least portions of said electrodes and said one or more I-layers and has a nano-structured top surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.44776
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15797821', '14945003', '15309922', '14943898', '14892821']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9207029137214526
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5373325535170566
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.882365877701013
- Mean Citation Score: 289.422208
- Max Citation Score: 362.38657
- Similarity Product: 268.34905980174784

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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