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 18):
A method for electrochemical liquid phase epitaxial (ec-LPE) semiconductor growth, the method comprising:\n applying an electric potential to a reactor cell comprising:\n a substrate; \n a liquid metal electrode adjacent to the substrate; \n a porous membrane disposed on a side of the liquid metal electrode opposite from the substrate; and \n a liquid electrolyte source disposed adjacent to and in fluid communication with the porous membrane, the source comprising a liquid electrolyte comprising an oxide compound of a semiconductor element, wherein the applying of the electric potential drives an electrochemical reduction reaction so that the semiconductor element enters the liquid metal electrode where it precipitates out of solution on the substrate as an epitaxial film comprising the semiconductor element.

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): 0.7423086343035934
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5001332033664097
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.718091091209875
- Mean Citation Score: 208.11698
- Max Citation Score: 269.53513
- Similarity Product: 209.46361274649607

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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