PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16180784
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["216", "067000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to methods for conditioning an interior wall surface of a remote plasma generator. In one embodiment, a method for processing a substrate is provided. The method includes exposing an interior wall surface of a remote plasma source to a conditioning gas that is in excited state to passivate the interior wall surface of the remote plasma source, wherein the remote plasma source is coupled through a conduit to a processing chamber in which a substrate is disposed, and the conditioning gas comprises an oxygen-containing gas, a nitrogen-containing gas, or a combination thereof. The method has been observed to be able to improve dissociation/recombination rate and plasma coupling efficiency in the processing chamber, and therefore provides repeatable and stable plasma source performance from wafer to wafer.

Claim (Index 11):
The method of  claim 10 , further comprising:\n before (a), exposing an interior wall surface of the processing chamber to a cleaning gas, wherein the cleaning gas comprises NF 3 , NH 3 , F 2 , CF 4 , C 2 F 6 , C 4 F 8 , SF 6 , CHF 3 , CF 6 , H 2 , CCl 4 , C 2 Cl 6 , or any combination thereof.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 42.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.02857
- Patent Class: 216.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14694676', '15384175', '15653785', '14275693', '14712167']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7891910130366795
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.521773623198841
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7624492740528956
- Mean Citation Score: 240.91604
- Max Citation Score: 349.1966
- Similarity Product: 227.3646466468692

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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