PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16126658
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["438", "095000"]

Abstract:
Techniques for precisely controlling the composition of volatile components (such as sulfur (S), selenium (Se), and tin (Sn)) of chalcogenide semiconductors in real-time—during production of the material are provided. In one aspect, a method for forming a chalcogenide semiconductor material includes providing a S source(s) and a Se source(s); heating the S source(s) to form a S-containing vapor; heating the Se source(s) to form a Se-containing vapor; passing a carrier gas first through the S-containing vapor and then through the Se-containing vapor, wherein the S-containing vapor and the Se-containing vapor are transported via the carrier gas to a sample; and contacting the S-containing vapor and the Se-containing vapor with the sample under conditions sufficient to form the chalcogenide semiconductor material. A multi-chamber processing apparatus is also provided.

Claim (Index 1):
A multi-chamber processing apparatus, comprising:\n a sequence of chambers connected in series with an outlet of one of the chambers being connected to an inlet of an adjacent one of the chambers in the sequence and wherein, for at least a given one of the chambers, the inlet and outlet are located at opposite ends of the given chamber; at least one sulfur source in a first chamber in the sequence; at least one selenium source in a second chamber in the sequence; at least one tin source in a third chamber in the sequence; and a source of a carrier gas connected to the first chamber in the sequence.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.28986
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15810670', '15137275', '14499116', '15137307', '15166004']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8795809072458537
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5379928217618777
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8454220986974561
- Mean Citation Score: 337.26599
- Max Citation Score: 382.83572
- Similarity Product: 379.1085449529982

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

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