PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16056001
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["438", "479000"]

Abstract:
Exemplary methods for etching a germanium-containing material may include forming a plasma of a fluorine-containing precursor in a remote plasma region of a semiconductor processing chamber. The methods may include flowing effluents of the fluorine-containing precursor through apertures defined in a chamber component. The apertures may be coated with a catalytic material. The methods may include reducing a concentration of fluorine radicals in the plasma effluents with the catalytic material. The methods may also include delivering the plasma effluents to a processing region of the semiconductor processing chamber. A substrate having an exposed region of a germanium-containing material may be housed within the processing region. The methods may further include etching the germanium-containing material.

Claim (Index 8):
The method of etching a germanium-containing material of  claim 1 , wherein a pressure within the processing chamber is maintained above about 2 Torr.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.52083
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15669362', '15835731', '15390955', '15792303', '15288898']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9184529185717584
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5549964421683639
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8821072709314189
- Mean Citation Score: 331.59343
- Max Citation Score: 409.7368
- Similarity Product: 406.01277832989695

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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