PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15890465
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["257", "769000"]

Abstract:
The disclosed subject matter provides thin films including a metal silicide and methods for forming such films. The disclosed subject matter can provide techniques for tailoring the electronic structure of metal thin films to produce desirable properties. In example embodiments, the metal silicide can comprise a platinum silicide, such as for example, PtSi, Pt 2 Si, or Pt 3 Si. For example, the disclosed subject matter provides methods which include identifying a desired phase of a metal silicide, providing a substrate, depositing at least two film layers on the substrate which include a first layer including amorphous silicon and a second layer including metal contacting the first layer, and annealing the two film layers to form a metal silicide. Methods can be at least one of a source-limited method and a kinetically-limited method. The film layers can be deposited on the substrate using techniques known in the art including, for example, sputter depositing.

Claim (Index 4):
A thin film including a metal silicide having a phase, comprising:\n a substrate; a first layer comprising a first amount of amorphous silicon deposited on said substrate; and a second layer comprising a second amount of a metal deposited on the first layer; wherein a ratio of the amount of the amorphous silicon and the amount of the metal correspond to the phase upon annealing thereof; and

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.20779
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15007867', '15573770', '13452402', '10799705', '11715046']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.894743815357265
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5891588660245604
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8641853204239945
- Mean Citation Score: 285.04661600000014
- Max Citation Score: 499.0585
- Similarity Product: 426.4130329990387

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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