PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15952512
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["438", "283000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments disclosed herein relate generally to forming a gate layer in high aspect ratio trenches using a cyclic deposition-etch process. In an embodiment, a method for semiconductor processing is provided. The method includes performing a cyclic deposition-etch process to form a conformal film over a bottom surface and along sidewall surfaces of a feature on a substrate. The method includes forming a dielectric cap layer on the conformal film. The method includes performing an anneal process on the conformal film.

Claim (Index 11):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein after performing the cyclic deposition-etch process and before performing the anneal process, the conformal film includes a first number of voids or seams, and wherein after performing the anneal process, the conformal film includes a second number of voids or seams, the second number being smaller than the first number.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.68627
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15920753', '15720087', '15282981', '15164420', '15410962']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8668191862226678
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4601508308252957
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8261523506829306
- Mean Citation Score: 175.42892
- Max Citation Score: 193.20839
- Similarity Product: 175.0173120641011

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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