PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16106571
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["136", "256000"]

Abstract:
Disclosed embodiments include CdS/CdTe PV devices ( 100 ) having a back contact ( 110,112 ) with oxygen gettering capacity. Also disclosed are back contact structures ( 110, 112 ) and methods of forming a back contact in a CdS/CdTe PV device ( 100 ). The described contacts and methods feature a contact having a contact interface layer ( 100 ) comprising a contact interface material, a p-type dopant and a gettering metal.

Claim (Index 7):
The method of  claim 1  further comprising depositing the contact interface layer in an inert or reducing atmosphere.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.81395
- Patent Class: 136.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12381637', '14127261', '12383532', '12381166', '14421718']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.769622766666213
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5042132822472198
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7430818182243137
- Mean Citation Score: 172.428652
- Max Citation Score: 189.8629
- Similarity Product: 106.90165548721552

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test