PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15964398
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["257", "401000"]

Abstract:
A method includes providing a structure having a substrate and a fin extending from the substrate, wherein the fin includes a first semiconductor material and has a source region, a channel region, and a drain region for a transistor; forming a gate stack over the channel region; performing a surface treatment to the fin in the source and drain regions, thereby converting an outer portion of the fin in the source and drain regions into a different material other than the first semiconductor material; etching the converted outer portion of the fin in the source and drain regions, thereby reducing a width of the fin in the source and drain regions; and depositing an epitaxial layer over the fin in the source and drain regions.

Claim (Index 9):
The method of  claim 1 , further comprising:\n repeating the performing of the surface treatment and the etching of the converted outer portion of the fin until the width of the fin in the source and drain regions is reduced by a predetermined value.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.5
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14985203', '13693685', '15374963', '14846414', '14729105']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8975365301263172
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5054535484062043
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8583282319543059
- Mean Citation Score: 210.84798
- Max Citation Score: 234.26938
- Similarity Product: 160.14839334410792

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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