Patent ID: 9362231
Filing Date: 2016-06-07
CPC Classification: B82Y,H01L,Y10T

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: providing a substrate, wherein the substrate comprises a plurality of exposed dielectric surfaces and at least one exposed conductive surface; selectively forming a self-assembled layer on the plurality of exposed dielectric surfaces, wherein the self-assembled layer comprises one or more thiols and the forming of the self-assembled monolayer is performed using vapor deposition, wherein the one or more thiols are represented by R—SH, wherein R is an alkyl, an aryl, a heteroaryl, a fluorinated alkyl, a fluorinated aryl, a fluorinated heteroaryl, a functionalized alkyl, a functionalized aryl, or a functionalized heteroaryl; and wherein the one or more thiols are functionalized with an organo-metallic terminal group.