PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16008495
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["438", "765000"]

Abstract:
Methods of depositing a film selectively onto a first material relative to a second material are described. The substrate is pre-cleaned by heating the substrate to a first temperature, cleaning contaminants from the substrate and activating the first surface to promote formation of a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) on the first material. A SAM is formed on the first material by repeated cycles of SAM molecule exposure, heating and reactivation of the first material. A final exposure to the SAM molecules is performed prior to selectively depositing a film on the second material. Apparatus to perform the selective deposition are also described.

Claim (Index 17):
A processing method comprising:\n (a) providing a substrate with an exposed first material and an exposed second material; (b) exposing the substrate to a pre-clean process in a pre-clean chamber, the pre-clean process comprising heating the substrate to a first temperature, cleaning the substrate of contaminants, and exposing the first material to an activating agent comprising water vapor to promote formation of a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) on an exposed surface of the first material; (c) exposing the substrate to a SAM molecule at a second temperature less than the first temperature to form a portion of a SAM on the exposed surface of the first material; (d) heating the substrate to a temperature greater than the second temperature; (e) exposing the substrate to an activating agent to reactivate the exposed surface of the first material; (f) repeating (c) through (e); (g) providing a final exposure of the SAM molecule to the substrate to form the SAM; and (h) selectively depositing a film on the exposed second material.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 33.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.03704
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15446816', '12969445', '13456904', '11385043', '13858922']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8711631836823474
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.481899961642643
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8322368614783769
- Mean Citation Score: 195.417992
- Max Citation Score: 220.15485
- Similarity Product: 181.8385969647377

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

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