PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15957594
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["257", "324000"]

Abstract:
A method of forming Si 3 N x , where “x” is less than 4 and at least 3, comprises decomposing a Si-comprising precursor molecule into at least two decomposition species that are different from one another, at least one of the at least two different decomposition species comprising Si. An outer substrate surface is contacted with the at least two decomposition species. At least one of the decomposition species that comprises Si attaches to the outer substrate surface to comprise an attached species. The attached species is contacted with a N-comprising precursor that reacts with the attached species to form a reaction product comprising Si 3 N x , where “x” is less than 4 and at least 3. Other embodiments are disclosed, including constructions made in accordance with method embodiments of the invention and constructions independent of method of manufacture.

Claim (Index 25):
A method of forming an array of elevationally-extending strings of memory cells, the method comprising:\n forming a stack comprising vertically-alternating insulative tiers and wordline tiers, the wordline tiers comprising control-gate material, channel openings extending into the alternating tiers; forming charge-blocking material comprising Si 3 N x , where \u201cx\u201d is less than 4 and at least 3, in the channel openings elevationally along the control-gate material, the forming of the Si 3 N x  comprising:\n decomposing a Si-comprising precursor molecule into at least two decomposition species that are different from one another, at least one of the at least two different decomposition species comprising Si; \n contacting an outer substrate surface with the at least two decomposition species, at least one of the decomposition species that comprises Si attaching to the outer substrate surface to comprise an attached species; and \n after the contacting the outer substrate surface with the at least two decomposition species, contacting the attached species with a N-comprising precursor that reacts with the attached species to form a reaction product comprising Si 3 N x , where \u201cx\u201d is less than 4 and at least 3; \n forming charge-storage material in the channel openings elevationally along the charge-blocking material comprising Si 3 N x ; and forming insulative charge-passage material then transistor channel material in the channel openings laterally over the charge-storage material; providing the control-gate material to have terminal ends corresponding to control-gate regions of individual memory cells, with the charge-blocking material being between the charge-storage material and individual of the control-gate regions.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 56.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.29851
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15890503', '15903307', '15903254', '15710432', '15295577']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9173576234767395
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5012219843737126
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.875744059566437
- Mean Citation Score: 230.252758
- Max Citation Score: 239.27318
- Similarity Product: 159.25386828192592

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

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