PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16268260
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["438", "794000"]

Abstract:
A process is provided for depositing a substantially amorphous titanium oxynitride thin film that can be used, for example, in integrated circuit fabrication, such as in forming spacers in a pitch multiplication process. The process comprises contacting the substrate with a titanium reactant and removing excess titanium reactant and reaction byproducts, if any. The substrate is then contacted with a second reactant which comprises reactive species generated by plasma, wherein one of the reactive species comprises nitrogen. The second reactant and reaction byproducts, if any, are removed. The contacting and removing steps are repeated until a titanium oxynitride thin film of desired thickness has been formed.

Claim (Index 1):
A process for depositing a titanium oxynitride thin film comprising:\n contacting a substrate with an organometallic titanium reactant; subsequently contacting the substrate with a plurality of reactive species generated by plasma from a gas; and repeating the contacting steps until an amorphous titanium oxynitride thin film comprising from 0.05 at-% to 30 at-% of nitrogen has been formed on the substrate, wherein the titanium oxynitride thin film is deposited at a temperature from 50\u00b0 C. to 300\u00b0 C.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 80.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.76119
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15384028', '15996062', '14835465', '14835456', '15414485']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9180573889708984
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5320234280946998
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8794539928832785
- Mean Citation Score: 330.775206
- Max Citation Score: 369.91852
- Similarity Product: 319.4751556100153

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

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