PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16015704
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["257", "211000"]

Abstract:
An embodiment includes a dielectric material; a trench included in the dielectric material, the trench having first and second opposing sidewalls; wherein the trench includes: (a)(i) a first trench portion extending from the first sidewall to the second sidewall, (a)(ii) a second trench portion extending from the first sidewall to the second sidewall, and (a)(iii) a third trench portion extending from the first sidewall to the second sidewall; wherein the second trench portion is between the first trench portion and the third trench portion; wherein the first trench portion is substantially filled with a first material, the second trench portion is substantially filled with a second material, and the third trench portion is substantially filled with a third material; wherein (b)(i) the first material includes nitrogen, and (b)(ii) the first material includes more nitrogen than the third material. Other embodiments are described herein.

Claim (Index 19):
A method comprising:\n forming a trench in a dielectric material, the trench including an opening and first and second sidewalls that oppose one another; exposing the trench to a silicon precursor to form a first compound on the first and second sidewalls, the first compound including silicon and hydrogen; exposing the first compound to an oxidizing agent to form a second compound on upper halves of the first and second sidewalls and on lower halves of the first and second sidewalls, the second compound including silicon, oxygen, and hydrogen; exposing the second compound formed on the upper halves of the first and second sidewalls to nitrogen to form a third compound along the upper halves of the first and second sidewalls, the third compound including silicon and nitrogen; exposing the second and third compounds to the silicon precursor to form a conformal layer on the upper and lower halves of the first and second sidewalls; wherein the conformal layer includes a first portion formed on the upper halves of the first and second sidewalls and a second portion formed on the lower halves of the first and second sidewalls; wherein the first portion includes a first atomic weight percentage of nitrogen, the second portion includes a second atomic weight percentage of nitrogen, and the first atomic weight percentage of nitrogen is greater than the second atomic weight percentage of nitrogen; wherein the upper halves of the first and second sidewalls are between the opening and the lower halves of the first and second sidewalls; wherein (a) the trench includes a first trench portion that includes a first width and a second trench portion that includes a second width; (b) the first width is a minimum width between the first and second sidewalls in the first trench portion; (c) the second width is a maximum width between the first and second sidewalls in the second trench portion; (d) the first width is less than the third width, (e) the first trench portion is between the opening of the trench and the second trench portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.95652
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14137497', '12959824', '14837795', '14915185', '15298733']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8862454172014085
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4900566679056986
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8466265422718375
- Mean Citation Score: 144.959808
- Max Citation Score: 164.4011
- Similarity Product: 110.6521277258754

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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