PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16008495
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["438", "765000"]

Abstract:
Methods of depositing a film selectively onto a first material relative to a second material are described. The substrate is pre-cleaned by heating the substrate to a first temperature, cleaning contaminants from the substrate and activating the first surface to promote formation of a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) on the first material. A SAM is formed on the first material by repeated cycles of SAM molecule exposure, heating and reactivation of the first material. A final exposure to the SAM molecules is performed prior to selectively depositing a film on the second material. Apparatus to perform the selective deposition are also described.

Claim (Index 1):
A processing method comprising:\n providing a substrate with an exposed first material and an exposed second material; exposing the substrate to a pre-clean process, the pre-clean process comprising heating the substrate to a first temperature, cleaning the substrate of contaminants and activating a surface of the first material to promote formation of a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) on the exposed first material; forming a SAM on the exposed first material at a second temperature by exposing the substrate to a plurality of cycles of a SAM formation process followed by a final exposure to a SAM molecule, each cycle of the SAM formation process comprising exposing the substrate to the SAM molecule followed by heating the substrate and reactivation of the surface of the first material; and selectively depositing a film on the exposed second material.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 33.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.03704
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15446816', '12969445', '13456904', '11385043', '13858922']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8710833910212228
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4826363904996105
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8322386909690616
- Mean Citation Score: 195.417992
- Max Citation Score: 220.15485
- Similarity Product: 180.46174471247792

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

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