PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16223204
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["257", "401000"]

Abstract:
A fin structure for a fin field effect transistor (FinFET) device is provided. The device includes a substrate, a first semiconductor material disposed on the substrate, a shallow trench isolation (STI) region disposed over the substrate and formed on opposing sides of the first semiconductor material, and a second semiconductor material forming a first fin and a second fin disposed on the STI region, the first fin spaced apart from the second fin by a width of the first semiconductor material. The fin structure may be used to generate the FinFET device by forming a gate layer formed over the first fin, a top surface of the first semiconductor material disposed between the first and second fins, and the second fin.

Claim (Index 15):
A method of forming a fin field effect transistor (FinFET) device, the method comprising:\n forming a shallow trench isolation (STI) region over a substrate, the STI region having a first fin extending from the substrate, the first fin being a first semiconductor material, sidewalls of an upper portion of the first fin being exposed; after forming the STI region, epitaxially growing a second fin along a first sidewall of the first fin and a third fin along a second sidewall of the first fin, the second fin and the third fin comprising a second semiconductor material different than the first semiconductor material, bottom surfaces of the second fin and the third fin contacting the STI region; and after epitaxially growing the second fin and the third fin, selectively etching the first fin, wherein after selectively etching the first fin, opposing sidewalls of the second fin and opposing sidewalls of the third fin are exposed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 31.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.48148
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14604401', '15357839', '13431727', '14657312', '15277777']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9148315174032196
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5106190433803713
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8744102700009349
- Mean Citation Score: 240.73353200000005
- Max Citation Score: 297.74936
- Similarity Product: 270.54006509790423

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

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