PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15962500
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["257", "288000"]

Abstract:
Epitaxial structures of a fin-like field effect transistor (FinFET) device includes a substrate, a fin structure including two fins, inner and outer fin spacers formed along both sidewalls of the fins, and isolation regions formed around the fins. The FinFET device further includes a gate structure formed over the fin structure and an epitaxial structure formed over the fin structure in a source/drain region. The epitaxial structure is formed by merging the fins with at least one epitaxial semiconductor layer and includes an air gap having a volume determined by the height and separation distance of the inner fin spacers.

Claim (Index 26):
The device of  claim 24 , wherein the second dielectric spacer has opposing sidewall surfaces, and\n wherein the epitaxial semiconductor structure physically contacts one of the opposing sidewall surfaces while the air gap interfaces with the other one of the opposing sidewall surfaces of the second dielectric spacer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.83051
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15942187', '14243336', '13252892', '12644869', '14997372']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.92229735112217
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4872678674388428
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8787944027538374
- Mean Citation Score: 205.071488
- Max Citation Score: 210.32977
- Similarity Product: 156.02756496497454

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

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