PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15754709
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["257", "368000"]

Abstract:
Techniques are disclosed for forming nanowire transistor architectures in which the presence of gate material between neighboring nanowires is eliminated or otherwise reduced. In accordance with some embodiments, neighboring nanowires can be formed sufficiently proximate one another such that their respective gate dielectric layers are either: (1) just in contact with one another (e.g., are contiguous); or (2) merged with one another to provide a single, continuous dielectric layer shared by the neighboring nanowires. In some cases, a given gate dielectric layer may be of a multi-layer configuration, having two or more constituent dielectric layers. Thus, in accordance with some embodiments, the gate dielectric layers of neighboring nanowires may be formed such that one or more constituent dielectric layers are either: (1) just in contact with one another (e.g., are contiguous); or (2) merged with one another to provide a single, continuous constituent dielectric layer shared by the neighboring nanowires.

Claim (Index 12):
The integrated circuit of  claim 1 , wherein at least one of the first and second dielectric layers has an average thickness in the range of about 1-10 nm.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.45205
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14916093', '13969820', '13996505', '14581029', '15429126']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9186121349398186
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4714360387863665
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8738945253244735
- Mean Citation Score: 161.647624
- Max Citation Score: 163.3439
- Similarity Product: 123.3516320659518

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

Dataset: test