PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15865976
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["257", "077000"]

Abstract:
An embodiment of a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes providing a semiconductor material that comprises SiC and forming an electrically conductive contact layer on the semiconductor material. A non-ohmic contact is formed between the semiconductor material and the electrically conductive contact layer. The electrically conductive contact layer comprises a metal nitride with a nitrogen content between 10 to 50 atomic %. Additional embodiments of manufacturing a semiconductor device are described.

Claim (Index 15):
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, the method comprising:\n providing a semiconductor material that has a bandgap in between at least 2 eV and at most 10 eV and comprises SiC; and forming an electrically conductive contact layer that comprises a metal nitride on the semiconductor material, wherein a non-ohmic contact is formed between the semiconductor material and the electrically conductive contact layer, wherein forming the electrically conductive contact layer comprises selecting the composition ratio of the metal nitride.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.72727
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14572872', '14822267', '13872391', '13906738', '10970026']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.910104507423303
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.46922249332693
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8660163060136656
- Mean Citation Score: 172.602196
- Max Citation Score: 195.28279
- Similarity Product: 161.51463185027126

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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