PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16206429
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["257", "751000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure provides methods for forming a conductive fill material (e.g., a conductive feature) by a physical vapor deposition (PVD) process. In one embodiment, a method of forming a conductive fill material on a substrate includes maintaining a first substrate temperature at a first range for a first period of time while forming a pre-layer of a conductive fill material on a substrate, providing a thermal energy to the substrate to maintain the substrate at a second substrate temperature at a second range for a second period of time, wherein the second substrate temperature is higher than the first substrate temperature, and continuously providing the thermal energy to the substrate to maintain the substrate a third substrate temperature at a third range for a third period of time to form a bulk layer of the conductive fill material on the substrate.

Claim (Index 2):
The semiconductor device of  claim 1 , wherein the upper surface of the conductive feature is level with an upper surface of the first dielectric layer distal the substrate.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.68421
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15880324', '15058344', '16155186', '16140201', '14491848']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9178047655773752
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4605975611602129
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.872084045135659
- Mean Citation Score: 154.874258
- Max Citation Score: 166.8731
- Similarity Product: 138.70066426047086

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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