PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16049930
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2020-02
Patent Classification: ["null", "null"]

Abstract:
In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a method and semiconductor device is described, including forming a plurality of gaps of variable size between device features, each of the gaps including vertical sidewalls perpendicular to a substrate surface and a horizontal surface parallel to the substrate surface. Spacer material is directionally deposited concurrently on the horizontal surface in each gap and in a flat area using a total flow rate of gaseous precursors that minimizes gap-loading in a smallest gap compared to the flat area such that the spacer material is deposited on the substrate surface in each gap and in the flat area to a uniform thickness.

Claim (Index 18):
A semiconductor device, comprising:\n fins formed on a surface of a substrate, the fins having sidewalls perpendicular to the surface; gaps disposed between each fin, the gaps having variable sizes corresponding to areas on the surface of the substrate outside of the fins; horizontal spacers disposed on the surface of the substrate in each of the gaps and in a flat area such that the horizontal spacers are of such uniformity in thickness in each of the gaps as to prevent transistor threshold voltage shift by more than about 20 mV and transistor on resistance increase by more than about 5%; and a gate structure disposed across the fins and over the horizontal spacers to form transistors.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.91667
- Patent Class: nan
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16004816', '15726525', '15336309', '15782908', '15139478']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5189667007194195
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5030374915904086
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5173737798065184
- Mean Citation Score: 205.23541
- Max Citation Score: 214.68817
- Similarity Product: 126.44193669711473

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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