PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15772783
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["257", "401000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments of the present disclosure describe semiconductor devices with ruthenium phosphorus thin films and further describe the processes to deposit the thin films. The thin films may be deposited in a gate stack of a transistor device or in an interconnect structure. The processes to deposit the films may include chemical vapor deposition and may include ruthenium precursors. The precursors may contain phosphorus. A co-reactant may be used during deposition. A co-reactant may include a phosphorus based compound. A gate material may be deposited on the film in a gate stack. The ruthenium phosphorus film may be a metal diffusion barrier and an adhesion layer, and the film may be a work function metal for some embodiments. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

Claim (Index 12):
The semiconductor device of  claim 10 , wherein the Ru\u2014P thin film is approximately 1 to 5 nanometers thick, wherein the Ru\u2014P thin film is deposited by a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process, wherein the CVD process includes: placing the semiconductor device in a vacuum chamber, heating the semiconductor device at a temperature of approximately 200 to 450 degrees Celsius, depositing a ruthenium precursor on the high-kappa dielectric material layer, and curing the ruthenium precursor to form the Ru\u2014P thin film.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.12698
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10821751', '11750134', '15570989', '11591792', '12670023']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.920902534122962
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4853957323850563
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8773518539491715
- Mean Citation Score: 192.022186
- Max Citation Score: 203.81416
- Similarity Product: 151.21671602146148

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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