PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15979938
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["118", "719000"]

Abstract:
A system for providing a pre-deposition treatment (e.g., of a work-function layer) to accomplish work function tuning. In various embodiments, a gate dielectric layer is formed over a substrate, and a work-function metal layer is deposited over the gate dielectric layer. In some embodiments, a first in-situ process including a pre-treatment process of the work-function metal layer is performed. By way of example, the pre-treatment process removes an oxidized layer of the work-function metal layer to form a treated work-function metal layer. In some embodiments, after performing the first in-situ process, a second in-situ process including a deposition process of another metal layer over the treated work-function metal layer is performed.

Claim (Index 9):
The processing system of  claim 8 , further comprising:\n the plurality of processing chambers each of which adjoins a wafer handling chamber including a transfer arm configured to transfer the substrate from one to another of the plurality of processing chambers.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 33.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.35849
- Patent Class: 118.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15192570', '15178150', '15978546', '15169566', '14482601']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7819214389589753
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5277708104500876
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7565063761080866
- Mean Citation Score: 238.989244
- Max Citation Score: 310.78198
- Similarity Product: 180.2833113608456

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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