PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15993768
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["257", "365000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure provides methods for forming conductive features in a dielectric layer without using adhesion layers or barrier layers and devices formed thereby. In some embodiments, a structure comprising a dielectric layer over a substrate, and a conductive feature disposed through the dielectric layer. The dielectric layer has a lower surface near the substrate and a top surface distal from the substrate. The conductive feature is in direct contact with the dielectric layer, and the dielectric layer comprises an implant species. A concentration of the implant species in the dielectric layer has a peak concentration proximate the top surface of the dielectric layer, and the concentration of the implant species decreases from the peak concentration in a direction towards the lower surface of the dielectric layer.

Claim (Index 26):
The method of  claim 21 , wherein the dielectric material comprises a silicon oxide, silicon oxynitride, silicon oxycarbide, or a combination thereof.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.30508
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15920745', '15441063', '13548783', '15651167', '14928916']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.91623551583922
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4839311310694269
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8730050773622408
- Mean Citation Score: 158.20384
- Max Citation Score: 168.0564
- Similarity Product: 115.28723956882952

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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