PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16377975
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["257", "762000"]

Abstract:
An interconnect dielectric material having an opening formed therein is first provided. A surface nitridation process is then performed to form a nitridized dielectric surface layer within the interconnect dielectric material. A metal layer is formed on the nitridized dielectric surface layer and then an anneal is performed to form a metal nitride layer between the metal layer and the nitridized dielectric surface layer. A portion of the originally deposited metal layer that is not reacted with the nitridized dielectric surface is then selectively removed and thereafter an electrical conducting structure is formed directly on the metal nitride layer that is present in the opening.

Claim (Index 12):
The semiconductor structure of  claim 1 , wherein the electrical conducting structure comprises Cu, W, Al or alloys thereof.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.22449
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15651656', '15287407', '15132770', '15132758', '15132796']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9342175021997384
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.551522081597941
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8959479601395586
- Mean Citation Score: 354.948552
- Max Citation Score: 402.83878
- Similarity Product: 394.180006727457

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

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