PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16056001
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["438", "479000"]

Abstract:
Exemplary methods for etching a germanium-containing material may include forming a plasma of a fluorine-containing precursor in a remote plasma region of a semiconductor processing chamber. The methods may include flowing effluents of the fluorine-containing precursor through apertures defined in a chamber component. The apertures may be coated with a catalytic material. The methods may include reducing a concentration of fluorine radicals in the plasma effluents with the catalytic material. The methods may also include delivering the plasma effluents to a processing region of the semiconductor processing chamber. A substrate having an exposed region of a germanium-containing material may be housed within the processing region. The methods may further include etching the germanium-containing material.

Claim (Index 18):
The method of etching a germanium-containing material of  claim 17 , wherein the catalytic material comprises one or more materials including an element selected from the group consisting of nickel, cobalt, vanadium, niobium, tantalum, chromium, manganese, rhenium, iron, ruthenium, osmium, palladium, platinum, rhodium, and iridium.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.52083
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: closed
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15669362', '15835731', '15390955', '15792303', '15288898']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9286708903353612
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.55211441431114
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8910152427329392
- Mean Citation Score: 331.59343
- Max Citation Score: 409.7368
- Similarity Product: 405.10541972341537

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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