PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16001694
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["216", "024000"]

Abstract:
Techniques for fabricating a slanted structure are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of fabricating a slanted structure in a material layer includes injecting a first reactive gas into an reactive ion source generator, generating a plasma that includes reactive ions in the reactive ion source generator, extracting at least some of the reactive ions from the plasma to form a collimated reactive ion beam towards the material layer, and injecting a second reactive gas onto the material layer. The collimated reactive ion beam and the second reactive gas etch the material layer both physically and chemically to form the slanted surface-relief structure.

Claim (Index 16):
A chemically assisted reactive ion beam etching (CARIBE) system for fabricating a slanted surface-relief structure in a material layer, the CARIBE system comprising:\n an reactive ion source generator configured to generate a plasma using a first reactive gas, the plasma including reactive ions; one or more aligned collimator grids configured to extract and accelerate at least some of the reactive ions in the plasma to form a collimated reactive ion beam towards the material layer; and a gas ring configured to inject a second reactive gas onto the material layer, wherein the collimated reactive ion beam and the second reactive gas etch the material layer both physically and chemically to form the slanted surface-relief structure in the material layer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.11538
- Patent Class: 216.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11767372', '14617574', '11745851', '14617710', '14617723']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7035807241055033
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4935488269701754
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6825775343919704
- Mean Citation Score: 170.62450800000005
- Max Citation Score: 200.52309
- Similarity Product: 131.900578449685

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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