PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16050741
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["257", "401000"]

Abstract:
A semiconductor device and method of manufacturing are provided. In an embodiment a first nucleation layer is formed within an opening for a gate-last process. The first nucleation layer is treated in order to remove undesired oxygen by exposing the first nucleation layer to a precursor that reacts with the oxygen to form a gas. A second nucleation layer is then formed, and a remainder of the opening is filled with a bulk conductive material.

Claim (Index 1):
A semiconductor device comprising:\n a first dielectric material over a substrate, wherein opposing sidewalls of an exterior surface of the first dielectric material have an aspect ratio of greater than 6; a first conductive material adjacent to the first dielectric material, the first conductive material comprising a first metal; a second conductive material adjacent to the first conductive material, the second conductive material being different from the first conductive material; a blocking material adjacent to the second conductive material; a first nucleation layer adjacent to the blocking material; and a second nucleation layer adjacent to the first nucleation layer, wherein the first nucleation layer has an oxygen concentration greater than zero but less than 0.1% atomic adjacent to a boundary between the first nucleation layer and the second nucleation layer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 27.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.63265
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15433121', '15783153', '16050939', '15394362', '15410071']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9043722605037716
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4586420203594565
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8597992364893401
- Mean Citation Score: 150.986196
- Max Citation Score: 185.01492
- Similarity Product: 164.61603327840328

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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