PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16072145
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["257", "758000"]

Abstract:
A conductive connector for a microelectronic structure may be formed in an opening in a dielectric layer, wherein a ruthenium/aluminum-containing liner is disposed between the dielectric layer and a substantially aluminum-free copper fill material within the opening. The ruthenium/aluminum-containing liner may be formed by depositing a ruthenium-containing liner and migrating aluminum into the ruthenium-containing liner with an annealing process. The aluminum may be presented as a layer formed either before or after the deposition of a copper fill material, or may be presented within a copper/aluminum alloy fill material wherein the annealing process migrates the aluminum out of the copper/aluminum alloy and into the ruthenium-containing liner.

Claim (Index 40):
The method of  claim 38 , further including forming a barrier layer between the opening sidewalls and the ruthenium/aluminum-containing liner.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.09434
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11431958', '15874041', '12635528', '15701265', '14587019']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9156832352780404
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5012181902429648
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8742367307745328
- Mean Citation Score: 162.297768
- Max Citation Score: 166.86058
- Similarity Product: 95.8946257909286

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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