PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15986619
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["257", "411000"]

Abstract:
A semiconductor structure includes a substrate, a source/drain region, a composite layer and a plug. The source/drain region and the composite layer are over the substrate. The composite layer includes a first sublayer having a first material, a second sublayer having a second material, and a third sublayer having the first material. A bandgap of the second material is larger than that of the first material. The second sublayer is between the first sublayer and the third sublayer. The plug is through the composite layer, and electrically connected to the source/drain region. The plug includes a first portion laterally adjoining the first sublayer, a second portion laterally adjoining the second sublayer, and a third portion laterally adjoining the third sublayer, and a first width of the first portion and a third width of the third portion is smaller than a second width of the second portion.

Claim (Index 17):
A semiconductor structure, comprising:\n a substrate; a source/drain region over the substrate; a gate region over the substrate; a composite layer over the substrate, wherein the composite layer comprises:\n at least two first sublayers comprising a first material; \n at least two second sublayers comprising a second material, wherein the second sublayers are stacked on the first sublayers in an alternating pattern; and \n a plug through the composite layer, and electrically connected to one of the source/drain region and the gate region, wherein the plug includes at least two first portions laterally adjoining the at least two first sublayers respectively, at least two second portions laterally adjoining the at least two second sublayers respectively, and a first width of each of the first portions is smaller than a second width of each of the second portions.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 4.025
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14949741', '14835291', '15940329', '15224778', '14514874']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9071317174518536
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4811084763115262
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8645293933378209
- Mean Citation Score: 171.249674
- Max Citation Score: 237.09315
- Similarity Product: 204.71772487791185

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test