PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15952714
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["257", "411000"]

Abstract:
Embodiment described herein provide a thermal treatment process following a high-pressure anneal process to keep hydrogen at an interface between a channel region and a gate dielectric layer in a field effect transistor while removing hydrogen from the bulk portion of the gate dielectric layer. The thermal treatment process can reduce the amount of threshold voltage shift caused by a high-pressure anneal. The high-pressure anneal and the thermal treatment process may be performed any time after formation of the gate dielectric layer, thus, causing no disruption to the existing process flow.

Claim (Index 11):
The method of  claim 8 , wherein the post-anneal treatment is performed at a pressure in a range from about 1 mTorr to about 5 atmosphere.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.62712
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15952512', '15825533', '15887819', '15952534', '14970291']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9156754373403388
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4928034431784578
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8733882379241507
- Mean Citation Score: 159.58954
- Max Citation Score: 175.40955
- Similarity Product: 112.3435138641715

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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