PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15899117
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["257", "355000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to non-planar ESD protection devices. The present disclosure provides a device structure and method of fabricating the structure that is essentially immune to latch-up and possess high ESD robustness and reliability. In an aspect, the present disclosure provides a mixed silicidation and selective epitaxy (epi) FinFET processes for latch-up immunity together with ESD robustness, thereby allowing achievement of ESD efficient parasitic structures together with latch-up immune and reliable functional devices. The present disclosure provides a dual silicidation scheme where ESD protection element(s) have fins that are partially silicided, and functional devices have fins that are fully silicided. The present disclosure also provides a hybrid contact and junction profile scheme where ESD protection element(s) have fins that are partially silicided with or without deep junctions depending on their application, and functional devices have fins that are fully silicided with the silicide edge crossing the junction. On the other hand, a dual Epi scheme is implemented such that ESD protection elements have fins with Epi contact, and functional devices have fins that are fully silicided without Epi (raised S/D) contact.

Claim (Index 14):
A semiconductor device comprising at least one ESD protection device and at least one functional device, wherein the at least one ESD protection device undergoes selective epitaxial growth before silicidation, and wherein the at least one functional device is fully silicided, without the epitaxial growth.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.29213
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15883306', '15883591', '15899102', '15883749', '12437294']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9197992739044858
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5093357426100698
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8787529207750442
- Mean Citation Score: 254.491686
- Max Citation Score: 272.33167000000003
- Similarity Product: 179.89494979273795

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

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