PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15952534
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["257", "392000"]

Abstract:
Generally, the present disclosure provides example embodiments relating to tuning threshold voltages in transistor devices and the transistor devices formed thereby. Various examples implementing various mechanisms for tuning threshold voltages are described. In an example method, a gate dielectric layer is deposited over an active area in a device region of a substrate. A dipole layer is deposited over the gate dielectric layer in the device region. A dipole dopant species is diffused from the dipole layer into the gate dielectric layer in the device region.

Claim (Index 15):
A method for semiconductor processing, the method comprising:\n forming a gate dielectric layer over a first active area and a second active area, the first active area and the second active area being on a substrate; forming a first dipole layer over the gate dielectric layer over the first active area; and diffusing a dipole dopant species from the first dipole layer into the gate dielectric layer, wherein after diffusing the dipole dopant species from the first dipole layer into the gate dielectric layer, a dipole dopant concentration in the gate dielectric layer over the first active area is greater than a dipole dopant concentration in the gate dielectric layer over the second active area.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.82353
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15135099', '15670701', '15909847', '14312166', '15354052']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9094406713122748
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4628059749126437
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8647772016723115
- Mean Citation Score: 159.726914
- Max Citation Score: 163.35126
- Similarity Product: 129.71399111700293

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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