PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16217533
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["136", "255000"]

Abstract:
A photovoltaic device and method include a substrate coupled to an emitter side structure on a first side of the substrate and a back side structure on a side opposite the first side of the substrate. The emitter side structure or the back side structure include layers alternating between wide band gap layers and narrow band gap layers to provide a multilayer contact with an effectively increased band offset with the substrate and/or an effectively higher doping level over a single material contact. An emitter contact is coupled to the emitter side structure on a light collecting end portion of the device. A back contact is coupled to the back side structure opposite the light collecting end portion.

Claim (Index 14):
The photovoltaic device as recited in  claim 10 , wherein the substrate includes crystalline silicon and the narrow band gap layers include one of amorphous silicon, amorphous germanium, amorphous silicon germanium and nano- or micro crystalline silicon.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.44
- Patent Class: 136.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14978880', '15622457', '14730502', '13604198', '15966864']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8501364076283172
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5695359766377608
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8220763645292616
- Mean Citation Score: 409.200006
- Max Citation Score: 451.1333
- Similarity Product: 427.5617608256877

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

Dataset: test