PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16212000
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["438", "479000"]

Abstract:
Methods are provided for fabricating semiconductor nanowires on a substrate. A nanowire template is formed on the substrate. The nanowire template defines an elongate tunnel which extends, laterally over the substrate, between an opening in the template and a seed surface. The seed surface is exposed to the tunnel and of an area up to about 2×10 4  nm 2 . The semiconductor nanowire is selectively grown, via said opening, in the template from the seed surface. The area of the seed surface is preferably such that growth of the nanowire proceeds from a single nucleation point on the seed surface. There is also provided a method for fabricating a plurality of semiconductor nanowires on a substrate and a semiconductor nanowire and substrate structure.

Claim (Index 10):
The method according to  claim 1 , wherein the substrate comprises a seed region, in the shape of the interior of said nanowire template, overlying and in contact with an insulating layer such that the insulating layer is exposed around the seed region, the method further comprising:\n forming a masking layer in contact with the seed region and the insulating layer whereby the masking layer and insulating layer provide the nanowire template; defining an opening in the masking layer to provide said opening in the nanowire template; and via said opening, removing part of the seed region to form said tunnel whereby a remaining part of the seed region provides said seed surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 22.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.19672
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15102553', '14975865', '15936255', '12900123', '13279786']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8600099034275398
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5717215591067653
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8311810689954623
- Mean Citation Score: 289.708836
- Max Citation Score: 463.0362
- Similarity Product: 413.302662187314

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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