PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16232609
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["438", "498000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure generally relates to methods for removing contaminants and native oxides from substrate surfaces. The method includes exposing a surface of the substrate to first hydrogen radical species, wherein the substrate is silicon germanium having a concentration of germanium above about 30%, then exposing the surface of the substrate to a plasma formed from a fluorine-containing precursor and a hydrogen-containing precursor, and then exposing the surface of the substrate to second hydrogen radical species.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for processing a substrate, comprising:\n exposing a surface of the substrate to hydrogen radical species; exposing the surface of the substrate to a plasma formed from a first fluorine-containing precursor and a first hydrogen-containing precursor; annealing the substrate; and forming an epitaxial layer on the surface of the substrate.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.78261
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15674606', '14846215', '15259489', '15418190', '15853397']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8744894181922689
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5281509549977746
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8398555718728195
- Mean Citation Score: 278.94158
- Max Citation Score: 354.65918
- Similarity Product: 321.8628555333853

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 0

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