PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15860547
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["427", "569000"]

Abstract:
Methods and systems for depositing material layers with gap variation between film deposition operations. One method includes depositing a material layer over a substrate. The depositing is performed in a plasma chamber having a bottom electrode and a top electrode. The method includes providing a substrate over the bottom electrode in the plasma chamber. The method sets a first gap between the bottom and top electrodes and performs plasma deposition to deposit a first film of the material layer over the substrate while the first gap is set between the bottom and top electrodes. The method then sets a second gap between the bottom a top electrodes and performs plasma deposition to deposit a second film of the material layer over the substrate while the second gap is set between the bottom and top electrodes. The material layer is defined by the first and second films and the first gap is varied to the second gap to offset expected non-uniformities when depositing the first film followed by the second film.

Claim (Index 8):
The method of  claim 1 ,\n wherein the plasma chamber set to have the first gap is different than the plasma chamber set to have the second gap; wherein the substrate is moved to the plasma chamber having the second gap after depositing the first film in the chamber having the first gap, such that the second film is deposited in the plasma chamber having the second gap.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.27778
- Patent Class: 427.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14701479', '15683397', '14074596', '15287176', '10316987']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7838600090084423
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5564117346196351
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7611151815695616
- Mean Citation Score: 257.036926
- Max Citation Score: 400.40836
- Similarity Product: 331.287649958992

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test