PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16020008
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["257", "314000"]

Abstract:
A three-dimensional memory device includes an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers located over a substrate and memory stack structures extending through the alternating stack. Each of the electrically conductive layers includes a stack of a compositionally graded diffusion barrier and a metal fill material portion, and the compositionally graded diffusion barrier includes a substantially amorphous region contacting the interface between the compositionally graded diffusion barrier and a substantially crystalline region that is spaced from the interface by the amorphous region. The substantially crystalline region effectively blocks atomic diffusion, and the amorphous region induces formation of large grains during deposition of the metal fill material portions.

Claim (Index 18):
The method of  claim 17 , wherein X is selected from Si, B, Al, and O, and wherein \u03b1 has a non-zero value at the interface between the compositionally graded diffusion barrier and the metal fill material portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.03571
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16020088', '15483862', '15291640', '15012082', '15992603']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9314260112055128
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5550879500032094
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8937922050852825
- Mean Citation Score: 310.727576
- Max Citation Score: 439.19574000000006
- Similarity Product: 323.863486363864

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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