PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16376086
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["385", "014000"]

Abstract:
Semiconductor devices, such as photonics devices, employ substantially curved-shaped Silicon-Germanium (SiGe) structures and are fabricated using zero-change CMOS fabrication process technologies. In one example, a closed-loop resonator waveguide-coupled photodetector includes a silicon resonator structure formed in a silicon substrate, interdigitated n-doped well-implant regions and p-doped well-implant regions forming multiple silicon p-n junctions around the silicon resonator structure, and a closed-loop SiGe photocarrier generation region formed in a pocket within the interdigitated n-doped and p-doped well implant regions. The closed-loop SiGe region is located so as to substantially overlap with an optical mode of radiation when present in the silicon resonator structure, and traverses the multiple silicon p-n junctions around the silicon resonator structure. Electric fields arising from the respective p-n silicon junctions significantly facilitate a flow of the generated photocarriers between electric contact regions of the photodetector.

Claim (Index 17):
The semiconductor device of  claim 15 , wherein:\n a cross-sectional width of the SiGe region is less than or equal to 500 nanometers; an outer radius of the silicon ring structure is 5 micrometers; and the SiGe region is disposed about 300 nanometers from the outer radius of, and within, the silicon ring structure.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.77381
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15332877', '15250594', '11177132', '15978606', '11793238']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8113285286951484
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5842157763975556
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7886172534653891
- Mean Citation Score: 309.6470740000001
- Max Citation Score: 525.72595
- Similarity Product: 398.3810462524742

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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