PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16206429
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["257", "751000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure provides methods for forming a conductive fill material (e.g., a conductive feature) by a physical vapor deposition (PVD) process. In one embodiment, a method of forming a conductive fill material on a substrate includes maintaining a first substrate temperature at a first range for a first period of time while forming a pre-layer of a conductive fill material on a substrate, providing a thermal energy to the substrate to maintain the substrate at a second substrate temperature at a second range for a second period of time, wherein the second substrate temperature is higher than the first substrate temperature, and continuously providing the thermal energy to the substrate to maintain the substrate a third substrate temperature at a third range for a third period of time to form a bulk layer of the conductive fill material on the substrate.

Claim (Index 4):
The semiconductor device of  claim 1 , wherein an upper surface of the conductive fill material is coplanar with an upper surface of the second dielectric layer, an upper surface of the liner layer, and an upper surface of the barrier layer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.68421
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15880324', '15058344', '16155186', '16140201', '14491848']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9179401509790978
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4589005390292681
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8720361897841148
- Mean Citation Score: 154.874258
- Max Citation Score: 166.8731
- Similarity Product: 140.49002375193834

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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