PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15860317
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["438", "283000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments of the present disclosure include contact structures and methods of forming the same. An embodiment is a method of forming a semiconductor device, the method including forming a contact region over a substrate, forming a dielectric layer over the contact region and the substrate, and forming an opening through the dielectric layer to expose a portion of the contact region. The method further includes forming a metal-silicide layer on the exposed portion of the contact region and along sidewalls of the opening; and filling the opening with a conductive material to form a conductive plug in the dielectric layer, the conductive plug being electrically coupled to the contact region.

Claim (Index 17):
The method of  claim 12 , wherein the reacted silicon carbide capping and metal layer has a first thickness along the contact region and a second thickness along the sidewalls of the dielectric layer, the first thickness being greater than the second thickness, wherein the first thickness is from about 30 Angstroms (\u212b) to about 300 \u212b and the second thickness is from about 3 \u212b to about 30 \u212b.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.26923
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15484934', '14321366', '15725867', '14955187', '14461285']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8566773777425823
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4961035864018117
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8206199986085053
- Mean Citation Score: 204.09281
- Max Citation Score: 241.46434
- Similarity Product: 184.49108969813585

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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