PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15952123
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["385", "141000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure describes luminescent solar concentrators that include photoluminescent nanoparticles. The photoluminescent nanoparticles include a semiconductor nanocrystal that sensitizes the luminescence of a defect. The defect can include, for example, an atom, a cluster of atoms, or a lattice vacancy. The defect can be incorporated into the semiconductor nanocrystal, adsorbed onto, or otherwise associated with the surface of the semiconductor nanocrystal.

Claim (Index 61):
A method of using a luminescent solar concentrator, comprising:\n providing a luminescent solar concentrator comprising\n (a) a plurality of photoluminescent nanoparticles, each comprising:\n (i) a semiconductor nanocrystal; and \n (ii) a nanocrystal defect, wherein the nanocrystal defect and the semiconductor nanocrystal combine to produce a photoluminescence effect and wherein the defect is selected from the group consisting of an atom, a cluster of atoms, a lattice vacancy, and any combination thereof; and \n \n (b) a waveguide material having the plurality of photoluminescent nanoparticles suspended therein or applied to a surface of the waveguide material, \n exposing a luminescent solar concentrator to sunlight, absorbing energy in the form of light having a first wavelength by the semiconductor nanocrystal of the photoluminescent nanoparticles, transferring the absorbed energy to the nanocrystal defect, spontaneously emitting light having a second wavelength longer than the first wavelength from the nanocrystal defect into the waveguide material, capturing the light having the second wavelength by total internal reflection in the waveguide material, the light having the second wavelength then traveling through the waveguide material, and optically communicating the light having the second wavelength to a photovoltaic cell.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.8
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14902113', '14220850', '14075498', '13468474', '14515134']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7969604474476591
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6894217895992599
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7862065816628192
- Mean Citation Score: 362.544624
- Max Citation Score: 715.0044
- Similarity Product: 688.9968919537782

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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