PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16203832
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["257", "401000"]

Abstract:
Generally, the present disclosure provides example embodiments relating to formation of a gate structure of a device, such as in a replacement gate process, and the device formed thereby. In an example method, a gate dielectric layer is formed over an active area on a substrate. A dummy layer that contains a passivating species (such as fluorine) is formed over the gate dielectric layer. A thermal process is performed to drive the passivating species from the dummy layer into the gate dielectric layer. The dummy layer is removed. A metal gate electrode is formed over the gate dielectric layer. The gate dielectric layer includes the passivating species before the metal gate electrode is formed.

Claim (Index 5):
The structure of  claim 1 , wherein the gate structure is disposed between a first gate spacer and a second gate spacer, the first gate spacer and the second gate spacer being over the fin, the gate dielectric layer further being along respective sidewalls of the first gate spacer and the second gate spacer, the gate structure further comprising:\n a capping layer over the gate dielectric layer; a barrier layer over the capping layer, the work-function tuning layer being over the barrier layer; and a barrier/adhesion layer over the capping layer, the metal gate electrode being over the barrier/adhesion layer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.26786
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16005986', '14871580', '15859947', '15938477', '15376353']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.916593218449644
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4938407378628341
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.874317970390963
- Mean Citation Score: 216.713768
- Max Citation Score: 248.3095
- Similarity Product: 190.68846610045432

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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