PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16049912
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["438", "687000"]

Abstract:
An interconnect structure and a method of forming an interconnect structure are disclosed. The interconnect structure includes a conductive plug over a substrate; a conductive feature over the conductive plug, wherein the conductive feature has a first sidewall, a second sidewall facing the first sidewall, and a bottom surface; and a carbon-containing barrier layer having a first portion along the first sidewall of the conductive feature, a second portion along the second sidewall of the conductive feature, and a third portion along the bottom surface of the conductive feature.

Claim (Index 14):
A method of forming an interconnect structure, the method comprising:\n forming a first dielectric layer; forming a first recess in the first dielectric layer; forming a first conductive layer in the first recess, an upper surface of the first conductive layer being level with an uppermost surface of the first dielectric layer, the first conductive layer having a void; forming a second dielectric layer over the first dielectric layer; forming a second recess through the first dielectric layer to the first conductive layer, the second recess exposing the void; forming a carbon-containing layer along sidewalls of the second recess and sidewalls of the void; and forming a second conductive layer over the carbon-containing layer, an upper surface of the second conductive layer and the second dielectric layer being level.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.64865
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14175685', '14250234', '15905434', '14856358', '14705840']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8484264647949599
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4799048915018194
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8115743074656459
- Mean Citation Score: 176.92991999999995
- Max Citation Score: 211.64236
- Similarity Product: 167.851347993052

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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