PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16022986
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2020-01
Patent Classification: ["438", "653000"]

Abstract:
A method for forming a semiconductor device includes forming a barrier layer over a dielectric layer, a concentration of an impurity in the barrier layer increasing as the barrier layer extends away from the dielectric layer; and performing a plasma process to treat the barrier layer.

Claim (Index 11):
The method of  claim 10 , wherein each of the first ALD process and the second ALD process comprises a plurality of ALD cycles and is performed using a reactant gas and a precursor gas, wherein a ratio between a flow rate of the reactant gas and a flow rate of the precursor gas is changed in each of the ALD cycles of the first ALD process and in each of the ALD cycles of the second ALD process.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 19.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.53125
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12002780', '10738177', '15849253', '11807178', '15411892']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8668346862961527
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4934656992616051
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8294977875926979
- Mean Citation Score: 168.076898
- Max Citation Score: 173.69397
- Similarity Product: 109.01564911241414

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

Dataset: test