PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16065462
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["438", "710000"]

Abstract:
A method capable of increasing a degree of freedom of process conditions that can be set in a plasma treatment while limiting deterioration in the electrical characteristics of a silicon or metal oxide film exposed to plasma, in performing the plasma treatment on a substrate. The method includes: processing a substrate on which a silicon or metal oxide film is formed, with plasma obtained by plasmarizing a process gas composed of a halogen compound; and subsequently, heating the substrate at a temperature of 450 degrees C. or higher in an inert gas atmosphere or a vacuum atmosphere in a state where the metal oxide film exposed to the plasma is exposed. Thus, deterioration in the characteristics of the oxide film caused by the plasma treatment are restored.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of processing a substrate, comprising:\n processing a substrate on which a silicon or metal oxide film is formed, with plasma obtained by plasmarizing a process gas composed of a halogen compound; and subsequently, heating the substrate at a temperature of 450 degrees C. or higher in an inert gas atmosphere or a vacuum atmosphere in a state where the metal oxide film exposed to the plasma is exposed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.94286
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12550788', '12632131', '11289330', '14754435', '12580495']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8445388921809659
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4587341286161396
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8059584158244832
- Mean Citation Score: 146.29071399999995
- Max Citation Score: 150.37067
- Similarity Product: 119.66191845762071

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

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