PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16206915
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["438", "788000"]

Abstract:
Methods and apparatuses for selectively depositing silicon oxide on a silicon oxide surface relative to a silicon nitride surface are described herein. Methods involve pre-treating a substrate surface using ammonia and/or nitrogen plasma and selectively depositing silicon oxide on a silicon oxide surface using alternating pulses of an aminosilane silicon precursor and an oxidizing agent in a thermal atomic layer deposition reaction without depositing silicon oxide on an exposed silicon nitride surface.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of depositing silicon oxide selectively on an exposed silicon oxide surface, the method comprising:\n providing a substrate having the exposed silicon oxide surface and an exposed silicon nitride surface, the exposed silicon nitride surface comprising primary amine groups; exposing the substrate to a aminosilane to adsorb the aminosilane to the exposed silicon oxide surface; and performing a thermal atomic layer deposition reaction comprising exposing the substrate to an oxidizing agent, whereby the thermal atomic layer deposition reaction selectively forms silicon oxide on the exposed silicon oxide surface relative to the exposed silicon nitride surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.7619
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15432634', '15453815', '15975554', '15456301', '15462695']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.862178765014465
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5433100237940947
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8302918908924279
- Mean Citation Score: 319.895848
- Max Citation Score: 393.00998
- Similarity Product: 360.641291759696

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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