PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15862930
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["257", "329000"]

Abstract:
A method of forming a semiconductor structure comprises forming a plurality of fins disposed over a top surface of a substrate and forming one or more vertical transport field-effect transistors (VTFETs) from the plurality of fins using a replacement metal gate (RMG) process. A gate surrounding at least one fin of a given one of the VTFETs comprises a gate self-aligned contact (SAC) capping layer disposed over a gate contact metal layer, the gate contact metal layer being disposed adjacent an end of the at least one fin.

Claim (Index 8):
The method of  claim 7 , wherein forming the one or more VTFETs further comprises:\n forming an additional liner disposed over the interlevel dielectric, the top source/drain SAC capping layers, the gate SAC capping layer and the bottom source/drain SAC capping layer; forming an additional interlevel dielectric disposed over the additional liner; forming vias in the additional liner, the additional interlevel dielectric, the top source/drain SAC capping layers, the gate SAC capping layer and the bottom source/drain SAC capping layer to expose portions of the top surfaces of the top source/drain contact metal layers, the gate contact metal layer and the bottom source/drain contact metal layer; and forming top source/drain contacts, a gate contact and a bottom source/drain contact in the vias.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 25.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.94
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15852109', '15426479', '15819109', '15245634', '15831354']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9275873080155722
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5172785095944245
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8865564281734575
- Mean Citation Score: 264.368154
- Max Citation Score: 295.12448
- Similarity Product: 197.20311457626343

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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