PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16206429
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["257", "751000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure provides methods for forming a conductive fill material (e.g., a conductive feature) by a physical vapor deposition (PVD) process. In one embodiment, a method of forming a conductive fill material on a substrate includes maintaining a first substrate temperature at a first range for a first period of time while forming a pre-layer of a conductive fill material on a substrate, providing a thermal energy to the substrate to maintain the substrate at a second substrate temperature at a second range for a second period of time, wherein the second substrate temperature is higher than the first substrate temperature, and continuously providing the thermal energy to the substrate to maintain the substrate a third substrate temperature at a third range for a third period of time to form a bulk layer of the conductive fill material on the substrate.

Claim (Index 10):
A semiconductor device comprising:\n a gate structure over a fin; an interlayer dielectric layer (ILD) over the fin and around the gate structure; a first dielectric layer over the ILD; a gate contact in the first dielectric layer and electrically coupled to the gate structure; a second dielectric layer over the first dielectric layer and the gate contact; and a first interconnect structure in the second dielectric layer and electrically coupled to the gate contact, wherein the first interconnect structure comprises:\n a conductive fill material; \n a liner layer around the conductive fill material, the liner layer comprising ruthenium or cobalt; and \n a barrier layer around the liner layer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.68421
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15880324', '15058344', '16155186', '16140201', '14491848']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9085106791296572
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4568224942964519
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8633418606463368
- Mean Citation Score: 154.874258
- Max Citation Score: 166.8731
- Similarity Product: 140.2752707737267

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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