PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16200538
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["438", "308000"]

Abstract:
The present invention generally describes one ore more methods that are used to perform an annealing process on desired regions of a substrate. In one embodiment, an amount of energy is delivered to the surface of the substrate to preferentially melt certain desired regions of the substrate to remove unwanted damage created from prior processing steps (e.g., crystal damage from implant processes), more evenly distribute dopants in various regions of the substrate, and/or activate various regions of the substrate. The preferential melting processes will allow more uniform distribution of the dopants in the melted region, due to the increased diffusion rate and solubility of the dopant atoms in the molten region of the substrate. The creation of a melted region thus allows: 1) the dopant atoms to redistribute more uniformly, 2) defects created in prior processing steps to be removed, and 3) regions that have hyper-abrupt dopant concentrations to be formed.

Claim (Index 7):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the first energy comprises a pulse of energy from the first energy source, and the second energy comprises a pulse of energy from the second energy source.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.86667
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12855652', '13401526', '11888433', '14480415', '13401553']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.882361386734603
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5189335108586391
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8460185991470066
- Mean Citation Score: 263.599916
- Max Citation Score: 335.13663
- Similarity Product: 312.34150002324526

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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