PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16125279
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["438", "287000"]

Abstract:
Described herein is a technique capable of improving electrical characteristics of a polysilicon film while suppressing damage to an underlying silicon oxide film. According to the technique described herein, there is provided a there is provided a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, including: (a) preparing a substrate including a silicon oxide film and a polysilicon film formed on the silicon oxide film, wherein the polysilicon film includes a contact surface contacting the silicon oxide film and an exposed surface facing the contact surface; and (b) supplying a reactive species generated by plasma excitation of a gas containing hydrogen and oxygen to the exposed surface of the polysilicon film.

Claim (Index 8):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the (a) comprises (a-1) loading the substrate into a process chamber having a plasma generation space where the gas containing hydrogen and oxygen is excited by plasma and placing the substrate at a position below a lower end of a coil provided at an outer peripheral portion of the process chamber, an electrical length of the coil being equal to an integral multiple of a wavelength of a high frequency power applied to the coil, and\n wherein the (b) comprises: (b-1) supplying the gas containing hydrogen and oxygen to the plasma generation space; (b-2) exciting the gas containing hydrogen and oxygen in the plasma generation space by applying the high frequency power to the coil; and (b-3) controlling a frequency of the high frequency power applied to the coil so as to maintain a resonance state of the coil while the (b-2) is performed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15042648', '14024249', '13672282', '11815266', '14956018']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.869850072954153
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4824086066934108
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8311059263280788
- Mean Citation Score: 200.875508
- Max Citation Score: 216.48543
- Similarity Product: 173.44129461954117

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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