PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16113829
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["250", "310000"]

Abstract:
Methods and apparatuses for laser-assisted electron-beam inspection (EBI) are provided. The apparatus includes an EBI device and a laser illumination device. The EBI device includes an e-beam source configured to emit an incident e-beam, a deflector configured to deflect the incident e-beam to be projected onto a surface of a semiconductor device, and an electron detector configured to detect emergent electrons generated by the incident e-beam projected onto the surface. The laser illumination device includes a laser source configured to generate a laser, and a guiding device configured to guide the laser to be projected onto the semiconductor device. The laser changes the emergent electrons to cause, in a positive mode of the EBI apparatus, a PN junction of an NMOS of the semiconductor device to be in a conduction state.

Claim (Index 1):
An apparatus for laser-assisted electron-beam inspection, comprising:\n an electron-beam (e-beam) inspection device, comprising:\n an e-beam source, configured to emit an incident e-beam; \n a deflector, configured to deflect the incident e-beam to be projected onto a surface of a semiconductor device; and \n an electron detector, configured to detect emergent electrons generated by the incident e-beam projected onto the surface; and \n a laser illumination device, comprising:\n a laser source, configured to generate a laser; and \n a guiding device, configured to guide the laser to be projected onto the semiconductor device, wherein the laser changes the emergent electrons by a photovoltaic effect to cause, in a positive mode of the EBI apparatus, a PN junction of an N-type metal-oxide semiconductor (NMOS) of the semiconductor device to be in a conduction state.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 31.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.50877
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12295911', '15112193', '11343418', '14125984', '15706409']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6536516768595358
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.456088969715127
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.633895406145095
- Mean Citation Score: 152.32107000000005
- Max Citation Score: 157.33495
- Similarity Product: 133.32847026939692

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

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