PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16422574
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["438", "696000"]

Abstract:
Semiconductor device structures having low-k features and methods of forming low-k features are described herein. Some examples relate to a surface modification layer, which may protect a low-k feature during subsequent processing. Some examples relate to gate spacers that include a low-k feature. Some examples relate to a low-k contact etch stop layer. Example methods are described for forming such features.

Claim (Index 7):
A method comprising:\n forming a low-k layer using an Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) process, the low-k layer having a concentration of oxygen, a first concentration of nitrogen, and a concentration of carbon, the concentration of oxygen being greater than the first concentration of nitrogen, the first concentration of nitrogen being greater than the concentration of carbon, the ALD process comprising: for a cycle, flowing a carbon source precursor having an R functional group; and repeating the cycle a number of times.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.675
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15952895', '15994561', '16057308', '15589659', '16157589']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8719092161878035
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5067415353453133
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8353924481035545
- Mean Citation Score: 245.716854
- Max Citation Score: 300.36618
- Similarity Product: 260.4665996245265

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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