PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15860354
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["257", "506000"]

Abstract:
Generally, the present disclosure provides example embodiments relating to conductive features, such as metal contacts, vias, lines, etc., and methods for forming those conductive features. In a method embodiment, a dielectric layer is formed on a semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor substrate has a source/drain region. An opening is formed through the dielectric layer to the source/drain region. A silicide region is formed on the source/drain region and a barrier layer is formed in the opening along sidewalls of the dielectric layer by a same Plasma-Enhance Chemical Vapor Deposition (PECVD) process.

Claim (Index 14):
The structure of  claim 13 , wherein the titanium nitride has a titanium concentration in a range from 10 17  cm \u22123  to 10 21  cm \u22123 , and has a nitrogen concentration in a range from 10 17  cm \u22123  to 10 21  cm \u22123 .

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.73333
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15691871', '14201391', '14992997', '15802729', '14993024']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9240317628302204
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4730851700639049
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8789371035535888
- Mean Citation Score: 171.480616
- Max Citation Score: 180.4409
- Similarity Product: 140.28336278123857

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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