PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15948627
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["257", "401000"]

Abstract:
Methods disclosed herein include replacing top portions of source and drain sections of a finFET structure having sidewalls and a first doping with doped amorphous silicon (a-Si) or amorphous silicon germanium (a-SiGe) having a second doping opposite to a first doping and that extends above the sidewalls. Disclosed method also include performing sub-melt laser annealing of the a-Si or a-SiGe to respectively form c-Si or c-SiGe to define the source and drain regions of the finFET. Unconverted a-Si or a-SiGe is removed. The source and drain regions so formed include expanded-area portions that extend beyond the tops of the sidewalls.

Claim (Index 2):
The method according to  claim 1 , wherein the acts c) and d) comprise:\n depositing a dielectric material over the tops and the sides of the source and drain sections to define tops of the dielectric material that reside directly above the source and drain sections; selectively masking the dielectric material to leave the tops of the dielectric material exposed; and etching through the tops of the dielectric material and into the source and drain sections to remove the top portions of the source and drain sections to define respective source and drain well structures having shortened source and drain top sections.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.8
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11776118', '14196596', '15695688', '15860840', '14792963']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9336417779404012
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5184716714929722
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8921247672956584
- Mean Citation Score: 291.346874
- Max Citation Score: 312.3481
- Similarity Product: 221.38671639626625

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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