PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15980197
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["257", "327000"]

Abstract:
A semiconductor structure including a multi-faceted epitaxial semiconductor structure within both a source region and a drain region and on exposed surfaces of a semiconductor fin is provided. The multi-faceted epitaxial semiconductor structure includes faceted epitaxial semiconductor material portions located on different portions of each vertical sidewall of the semiconductor fin and a topmost faceted epitaxial semiconductor material portion that is located on an exposed topmost horizontal surface of the semiconductor fin. The multi-faceted epitaxial semiconductor structure has increased surface area and thus an improvement in contact resistance can be obtained utilizing the same.

Claim (Index 8):
The method of  claim 7 , further comprising recessing said local isolation structure to define a gap beneath said multilayered spacer structure, wherein said recessing is performed after forming said topmost precursor faceted epitaxial semiconductor material portion and prior to said selectively etching said multilayered spacer structure.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.90196
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14983057', '15342318', '15294345', '15968235', '15185953']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.927474498667112
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5916137004727365
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8938884188476744
- Mean Citation Score: 434.642548
- Max Citation Score: 546.7736
- Similarity Product: 411.62683531394

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

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