PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16038024
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["257", "401000"]

Abstract:
Methods for forming a semiconductor device structure are provided. The methods may include forming a molybdenum nitride film on a substrate by atomic layer deposition by contacting the substrate with a first vapor phase reactant comprising a molybdenum halide precursor, contacting the substrate with a second vapor phase reactant comprise a nitrogen precursor, and contacting the substrate with a third vapor phase reactant comprising a reducing precursor. The methods provided may also include forming a gate electrode structure comprising the molybdenum nitride film, the gate electrode structure having an effective work function greater than approximately 5.0 eV. Semiconductor device structures including molybdenum nitride films are also provided.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for forming a semiconductor device structure, the method comprising:\n forming a molybdenum nitride film on a substrate by atomic layer deposition, wherein forming the molybdenum nitride film comprises:\n contacting the substrate with a first vapor phase reactant comprising a molybdenum halide precursor; \n contacting the substrate with a second vapor phase reactant comprising a nitrogen precursor selected from the group comprising ammonia (NH 3 ), hydrazine (N 2 H 4 ), triazane (N 3 H 5 ), tertbutylhydrazine (C 4 H 9 N 2 H 3 ), methylhydrazine (CH 3 NHNH 2 ), and dimethylhydrazine ((CH 3 ) 2 N 2 H 2 ); and \n contacting the substrate with a third vapor phase reactant comprising a reducing precursor selected from the group comprising hydrogen gas (H 2 ), silane (SiH 4 ), disilane (Si 2 H 6 ), trisilane (Si 3 H 8 ), tetrasilane (Si 4 H 8 ), and acetylene (C 2 H 2 ); and \n forming a gate electrode structure comprising the molybdenum nitride film, the gate electrode structure having an effective work function greater than approximately 5.0 eV.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15707786', '15711989', '11294843', '15796593', '11862404']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8912583221221786
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5057882839970876
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8527113183096695
- Mean Citation Score: 252.658348
- Max Citation Score: 292.39127
- Similarity Product: 267.5068747064364

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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