PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15777707
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["257", "190000"]

Abstract:
Tensile strain is applied to a channel region of a transistor by depositing an amorphous Si x Ge 1-x-y C y  alloy in at least one of a source and a drain (S/D) region of the transistors. The amorphous Si x Ge 1-x-y C y  alloy is crystallized, thus reducing the unit volume of the alloy. This volume reduction in at least one of the source and the drain region applies strain to a connected channel region. This strain improves electron mobility in the channel. Dopant activation in the source and drain locations is recovered during conversion from amorphous to crystalline structure. Presence of high carbon concentrations reduces dopant diffusion from the source and drain locations into the channel region. The techniques may be employed with respect to both planar and non-planar (e.g., FinFET and nanowire) transistors.

Claim (Index 10):
The integrated circuit of  claim 1 , wherein the source region, drain region, and semiconductor region are configured in a non-planar transistor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.94805
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16474446', '15918077', '15778863', '15576150', '16081215']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9209058687006556
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4921919461244001
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8780344764430301
- Mean Citation Score: 195.229868
- Max Citation Score: 228.14612
- Similarity Product: 170.68931264380933

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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