PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16041153
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2020-01
Patent Classification: ["438", "778000"]

Abstract:
A boron nitride, boron carbide, or boron carbonitride film can be deposited using a remote plasma chemical vapor deposition (CVD) technique. A boron-containing precursor is provided to a reaction chamber, where the boron-containing precursors has at least one boron atom bonded to a hydrogen atom. Radical species, such as hydrogen radical species, are provided from a remote plasma source and into the reaction chamber at a substantially low energy state or ground state. A hydrocarbon precursor may be flowed along with the boron-containing precursor, and a nitrogen-containing plasma species may be introduced along with the radical species from the remote plasma source and into the reaction chamber. The boron-containing precursor may interact with the radical species along with one or both of the hydrocarbon precursor and the nitrogen-containing precursor to deposit the boron nitride, boron carbide, or boron carbonitride film.

Claim (Index 18):
A method of depositing a boron-containing film on a substrate, the method comprising:\n providing a substrate in a reaction chamber; flowing a boron-containing precursor into the reaction chamber towards the substrate, wherein the boron-containing precursor has one or more B\u2014H bonds; generating, from a source gas including molecular hydrogen (H 2 ) and a nitrogen-containing reactant, radicals of hydrogen and the nitrogen-containing reactant in a remote plasma source that are generated upstream of the boron-containing precursor; and introducing the radicals of hydrogen and the nitrogen-containing reactant into the reaction chamber and towards the substrate, wherein the radicals of hydrogen are in a ground state to react with the boron-containing precursor to form a boron-containing film on the substrate.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 22.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.31343
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15283159', '14616435', '15382137', '14961637', '13907699']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8674663691513967
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.516998320790805
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8324195643153376
- Mean Citation Score: 294.8371640000001
- Max Citation Score: 322.25613
- Similarity Product: 246.4077674569094

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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