PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15948627
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["257", "401000"]

Abstract:
Methods disclosed herein include replacing top portions of source and drain sections of a finFET structure having sidewalls and a first doping with doped amorphous silicon (a-Si) or amorphous silicon germanium (a-SiGe) having a second doping opposite to a first doping and that extends above the sidewalls. Disclosed method also include performing sub-melt laser annealing of the a-Si or a-SiGe to respectively form c-Si or c-SiGe to define the source and drain regions of the finFET. Unconverted a-Si or a-SiGe is removed. The source and drain regions so formed include expanded-area portions that extend beyond the tops of the sidewalls.

Claim (Index 6):
The method according to  claim 5 , wherein the scanning laser beam has a wavelength in the range from 200 nm to microns.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.8
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11776118', '14196596', '15695688', '15860840', '14792963']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9335160605287584
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5229804266460898
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8924624971404915
- Mean Citation Score: 291.346874
- Max Citation Score: 312.3481
- Similarity Product: 190.90095132220387

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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