PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16100288
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["257", "288000"]

Abstract:
Semiconductor device structures having dielectric features and methods of forming dielectric features are described herein. In some examples, the dielectric features are formed by an ALD process followed by a varying temperature anneal process. The dielectric features can have high density, low carbon concentration, and lower k-value. The dielectric features formed according to the present disclosure has improved resistance against etching chemistry, plasma damage, and physical bombardment in subsequent processes while maintaining a lower k-value for target capacitance efficiency.

Claim (Index 9):
A method comprising:\n forming a layer using an Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) process, the ALD process comprising:\n for a cycle of the ALD:\n flowing a silicon source precursor; \n flowing a carbon and nitride source precursor; and \n flowing an oxygen source precursor; and \n \n annealing the layer to reduce an amount of carbon and an amount of nitrogen in the layer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.41935
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15952895', '15994561', '16057308', '15952512', '15952714']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9116128852958756
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4771000333286243
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8681616000991504
- Mean Citation Score: 177.256028
- Max Citation Score: 193.00723
- Similarity Product: 147.33897341121673

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

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