PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15877751
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["438", "653000"]

Abstract:
A substrate is provided having a dual damascene structure formed within a dielectric material over the substrate. The dual damascene structure includes a trench and an opening formed to extend from a bottom of the trench to an underlying conductive material, with the underlying conductive material exposed at a bottom of the opening. The dual damascene structure is exposed to a sealing process by which the exposed surfaces of the dielectric material in the opening are sealed without covering the underlying conductive material exposed at the bottom of the opening. The sealing process can be one or more of deposition of a flowable film, deposition of an amorphous carbon barrier layer, and formation of a self-assembled monolayer of an amino group. After the sealing process, an electroless deposition process is performed to fill the opening with a metallic material in a bottom-to-top manner up to the bottom of the trench.

Claim (Index 5):
The semiconductor device as recited in  claim 1 , wherein the at least one dual damascene structure is exposed to fluid including 3-aminopropyltrimethoxysilane (APTMS) to form the self-assembled monolayer of the amino group on each sidewall of the vertical connection region.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.33824
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15442307', '14874307', '10246061', '10657847', '11511877']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8804928773868219
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5489931376526684
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8473429034134066
- Mean Citation Score: 288.936724
- Max Citation Score: 408.61688
- Similarity Product: 334.1748427385044

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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