PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15874005
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["257", "288000"]

Abstract:
Semiconductor devices employing reduced area conformal contacts for reducing parasitic capacitance and improving performance, and related methods are disclosed. The area of the source/drain contacts for providing an electrical contract to a source/drain is reduced in size to reduce parasitic capacitance between a gate and the source/drain contacts for improved performance. To mitigate or avoid increase in contact resistance between the source/drain contacts and source/drain, a conformal contact layer of a desired thickness is disposed adjacent to the source/drain to reduce the source/drain contact resistance. Thus, the source/drain contacts may only have to extend down adjacent to an upper region of the source/drain to still achieve a desired, lower contact resistance with the source/drain contacts, which results in a reduced area source/drain contact for reducing parasitic capacitance.

Claim (Index 25):
The method of  claim 24 , further comprising:\n forming one or more spacer structures above the substrate, the one or more spacer structures comprising a first side wall, and a second side wall located adjacent to the first side wall to form an opening between the first side wall and the second side wall; and forming the conduction channel above the substrate by forming the one or more channel structures from the semiconductor material disposed in the opening in the one or more spacer structures.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.15873
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15602326', '15598393', '15585865', '14951660', '15728615']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9192968846863536
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5060616433961879
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.877973360557337
- Mean Citation Score: 246.22445
- Max Citation Score: 268.69943
- Similarity Product: 186.1578920626844

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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