PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15938225
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["438", "400000"]

Abstract:
A fin structure is on a substrate. The fin structure includes an epitaxial region having an upper surface and an under-surface. A contact structure on the epitaxial region includes an upper contact portion and a lower contact portion. The upper contact portion includes a metal layer over the upper surface and a barrier layer over the metal layer. The lower contact portion includes a metal-insulator-semiconductor (MIS) contact along the under-surface. The MIS contact includes a dielectric layer on the under-surface and the barrier layer on the dielectric layer.

Claim (Index 14):
The method of  claim 13 , further comprising:\n forming a second fin structure adjacent the first fin structure and separated from the first fin structure by an isolation region; forming a first etch stop layer extending continuously over the first fin structure, over the isolation region, and over the second fin structure; and forming a second etch stop layer extending from a top surface of the first fin structure to a top surface of the second fin structure, the second etch stop layer extending above the isolation region, wherein a void extends from the first etch stop layer over the isolation region to the second etch stop layer above the isolation region.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.0
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14257809', '15226557', '14599246', '14912890', '14796646']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8714908944033365
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4942510288728171
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8337669078502846
- Mean Citation Score: 193.194058
- Max Citation Score: 214.38257
- Similarity Product: 155.70857814113674

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

Dataset: test