PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15895716
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["438", "285000"]

Abstract:
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes: forming a semiconductor structure including a pattern; forming an epitaxial layer having a first dopant concentration in the pattern; forming in-situ an interface layer having a second dopant concentration higher than the first dopant concentration, over the epitaxial layer; forming a metal silicide layer over the interface layer; and forming a metal plug over the metal silicide layer.

Claim (Index 9):
The semiconductor device of  claim 1 , wherein the semiconductor structure including the pattern comprising:\n a semiconductor substrate; and a gate structure formed over the semiconductor substrate, wherein the pattern is formed in the semiconductor substrate at both sides of the gate structure, and wherein the pattern filled with the epitaxial layer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.08571
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15672794', '15837530', '11154474', '12343347', '13560577']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8691783550845797
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5502307554406742
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8372835951201891
- Mean Citation Score: 299.927332
- Max Citation Score: 422.39438
- Similarity Product: 331.0351036010647

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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