PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15952534
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["257", "392000"]

Abstract:
Generally, the present disclosure provides example embodiments relating to tuning threshold voltages in transistor devices and the transistor devices formed thereby. Various examples implementing various mechanisms for tuning threshold voltages are described. In an example method, a gate dielectric layer is deposited over an active area in a device region of a substrate. A dipole layer is deposited over the gate dielectric layer in the device region. A dipole dopant species is diffused from the dipole layer into the gate dielectric layer in the device region.

Claim (Index 4):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the gate dielectric layer is further deposited over a second active area in a second device region of the substrate, and further comprising:\n depositing a blocking layer over the gate dielectric layer in the second device region, wherein the first dipole layer is further deposited over the blocking layer in the second device region, wherein the blocking layer is not disposed between the first dipole layer and the gate dielectric layer in the first device region; and while diffusing the dipole dopant species from the first dipole layer into the gate dielectric layer in the first device region, diffusing a dipole dopant species from the first dipole layer into the gate dielectric layer in the second device region, wherein after diffusing the dipole dopant species from the first dipole layer in the first device region and the second device region, a concentration of the dipole dopant species in the gate dielectric layer in the first device region is greater than a concentration of the dipole dopant species in the gate dielectric layer in the second device region.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.82353
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15135099', '15670701', '15909847', '14312166', '15354052']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.907054030005251
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.489869528186325
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8653355798233584
- Mean Citation Score: 159.726914
- Max Citation Score: 163.35126
- Similarity Product: 102.3618821474719

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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