PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15770252
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["438", "674000"]

Abstract:
Methods for depositing a film comprising cyclical exposure of a substrate surface to a silicon precursor to form a nucleation layer and sequential exposure to a metal precursor and a reductant to form a metal layer on the nucleation layer.

Claim (Index 15):
A processing method comprising:\n placing a substrate having a substrate surface with at least one feature thereon into a processing chamber comprising a plurality of sections, each section separated from adjacent sections by a gas curtain; exposing at least a portion of the substrate surface to a first process condition in a first section of the processing chamber, the first process condition comprising disilane; laterally moving the substrate surface through a gas curtain to a second section of the processing chamber; exposing the substrate surface to a second process condition in the second section of the processing chamber, the second process condition comprising WF6; repeating exposure to the first process condition and the second process condition including lateral movement to grow a nucleation layer having a thickness in the range of about 20\u212b to about 60\u212b; laterally moving the substrate surface through a gas curtain to a section of the processing chamber having a third process condition, the third process condition comprising hydrogen; and repeating exposure to the second process condition and the third process condition including lateral movement between to form a tungsten-rich tungsten silicide film of a predetermined thickness, the tungsten-rich tungsten silicide film having in the range of about 5 atomic % to about 20 atomic % silicon.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.70833
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14062804', '14965349', '15814863', '15381752', '15455744']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8664642716423321
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.496527654613554
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8294706099394543
- Mean Citation Score: 255.57222400000003
- Max Citation Score: 274.69116
- Similarity Product: 231.75250873826263

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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