PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15988854
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["257", "741000"]

Abstract:
Methods for depositing a low resistivity nickel silicide layer used in forming an interconnect and electronic devices formed using the methods are described herein. In one embodiment, a method for depositing a layer includes positioning a substrate on a substrate support in a processing chamber, the processing chamber having a nickel target and a silicon target disposed therein, the substrate facing portions of the nickel target and the silicon target each having an angle of between about 10 degrees and about 50 degrees from the target facing surface of the substrate, flowing a gas into the processing chamber, applying an RF power to the nickel target and concurrently applying a DC power to the silicon target, concurrently sputtering silicon and nickel from the silicon and nickel targets, respectively, and depositing a Ni x Si 1-x  layer on the substrate, where x is between about 0.01 and about 0.99.

Claim (Index 4):
The method of  claim 3 , wherein the DC power is between about 800 watts and about 1200 watts.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.14865
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14975231', '14975028', '15240410', '14938559', '11084450']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.930255318276049
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5192244660850476
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8891522330569489
- Mean Citation Score: 224.961176
- Max Citation Score: 246.91544
- Similarity Product: 129.85679040575505

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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