PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15865432
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["117", "206000"]

Abstract:
Electrochemical liquid phase epitaxy (ec-LPE) processes and devices are provided that can form precipitated epitaxial crystalline films or layers on a substrate. The precipitated films may comprise a semiconductor, such as germanium, silicon, or carbon. Dissolution into, saturation within, and precipitation of the semiconductor from a liquid metal electrode (e.g., Hg pool) near an interface region with a substrate yields a polycrystalline semiconductor material deposited as an epitaxial film. Reactor cells for use in an electrochemical liquid phase epitaxy (ec-LPE) device are also provided that include porous membranes to facilitate formation of the precipitated epitaxial crystalline films.

Claim (Index 1):
A reactor cell for an electrochemical liquid phase epitaxy (ec-LPE) device, the reactor cell comprising:\n a substrate; a liquid metal electrode adjacent to the substrate, wherein an interface region is defined between the substrate and the liquid metal electrode and the liquid metal electrode is in electrical communication with a second electrode having a second opposite polarity from the liquid metal electrode; a porous membrane disposed on a side of the liquid metal electrode opposite from the substrate; and a liquid electrolyte source disposed adjacent to and in fluid communication with the porous membrane, the source comprising a liquid electrolyte that comprises an oxide compound of a semiconductor element; wherein the substrate, liquid metal electrode, and porous membrane are compressed together under pressure and the reactor cell is configured in a presence of an electric potential to form an epitaxial layer of precipitated semiconductor element on the substrate near the interface region.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 31.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.56944
- Patent Class: 117.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14234084', '11174035', '14151868', '11074596', '10829598']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7432468455290232
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4940261555632957
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7183247765324505
- Mean Citation Score: 208.11698
- Max Citation Score: 269.53513
- Similarity Product: 230.160421473909

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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