PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15860354
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["257", "506000"]

Abstract:
Generally, the present disclosure provides example embodiments relating to conductive features, such as metal contacts, vias, lines, etc., and methods for forming those conductive features. In a method embodiment, a dielectric layer is formed on a semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor substrate has a source/drain region. An opening is formed through the dielectric layer to the source/drain region. A silicide region is formed on the source/drain region and a barrier layer is formed in the opening along sidewalls of the dielectric layer by a same Plasma-Enhance Chemical Vapor Deposition (PECVD) process.

Claim (Index 5):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein forming the silicide region and the barrier layer further includes forming a metal layer, by the same PECVD process, in the opening along the sidewalls of the dielectric layer, the metal layer being disposed between the sidewalls of the dielectric layer and the barrier layer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.73333
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15691871', '14201391', '14992997', '15802729', '14993024']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.923282116760792
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4833462578535093
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8792885308700639
- Mean Citation Score: 171.480616
- Max Citation Score: 180.4409
- Similarity Product: 127.81240813278556

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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