PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16022986
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2020-01
Patent Classification: ["438", "653000"]

Abstract:
A method for forming a semiconductor device includes forming a barrier layer over a dielectric layer, a concentration of an impurity in the barrier layer increasing as the barrier layer extends away from the dielectric layer; and performing a plasma process to treat the barrier layer.

Claim (Index 17):
The method of  claim 14 , wherein the first ALD process is performed in a first deposition chamber, wherein the method further comprises:\n performing a second ALD process in a second deposition chamber different from the first deposition chamber, the second ALD process forming a second barrier layer over the first barrier layer, wherein performing the second ALD process comprises:\n performing a third ALD cycle to form a third sublayer of the second barrier layer, the third sublayer having a third concentration of the impurity; and \n performing a fourth ALD cycle to form a fourth sublayer of the second barrier layer over the third sublayer, the fourth sublayer having a fourth concentration of the impurity larger than the third concentration of the impurity.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 19.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.53125
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12002780', '10738177', '15849253', '11807178', '15411892']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8666681912596262
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4948472097127365
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8294860931049373
- Mean Citation Score: 168.076898
- Max Citation Score: 173.69397
- Similarity Product: 107.4571858735782

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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