PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16036054
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2020-01
Patent Classification: ["438", "283000"]

Abstract:
A semiconductor device and a method of forming the same are provided. The method includes forming a trench in a substrate. A liner layer is formed along sidewalls and a bottom of the trench. A silicon-rich layer is formed over the liner layer. Forming the silicon-rich layer includes flowing a first silicon precursor into a process chamber for a first time interval, and flowing a second silicon precursor and a first oxygen precursor into the process chamber for a second time interval. The second time interval is different from the first time interval. The method further includes forming a dielectric layer over the silicon-rich layer.

Claim (Index 7):
A method comprising:\n patterning a substrate to form trenches therein, portions of the substrate between adjacent trenches forming semiconductor strips; and forming isolation regions in the trenches, portions of the semiconductor strips extending above the isolation regions forming fins, wherein forming the isolation regions comprises:\n conformally forming a first liner layer in the trenches; \n forming a first silicon-rich layer over the first liner layer, the first silicon-rich layer extending along sidewalls and a top surface of each of the semiconductor strips, wherein forming the first silicon-rich layer comprises:\n flowing a first silicon precursor into a process chamber for a first number of cycles; and \n flowing a second silicon precursor and a first oxygen precursor into the process chamber for a second number of cycles, the second number of cycles being different from the first number of cycles; and \n \n forming a first dielectric layer over the first silicon-rich layer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.51111
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14328350', '15886190', '15641042', '15705034', '15725867']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8507729858056934
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4734247685008989
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8130381640752139
- Mean Citation Score: 179.22558399999997
- Max Citation Score: 190.4174
- Similarity Product: 149.74675548896792

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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