PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16055974
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["427", "569000"]

Abstract:
A method of forming a transparent carbon layer on a substrate is provided. The method comprises generating an electron beam plasma above a surface of a substrate positioned over a first electrode and disposed in a processing chamber having a second electrode positioned above the first electrode. The method further comprises flowing a hydrocarbon-containing gas mixture into the processing chamber, wherein the second electrode has a surface containing a secondary electrode emission material selected from a silicon-containing material and a carbon-containing material. The method further comprises applying a first RF power to at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode and forming a transparent carbon layer on the surface of the substrate.

Claim (Index 16):
A method of forming a carbon hardmask layer on a substrate, comprising:\n performing a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process, comprising:\n flowing a hydrocarbon-containing gas and a first inert gas into a processing chamber, wherein the processing chamber includes a substrate positioned over a first electrode and a second electrode positioned above a surface of the substrate, the second electrode having a surface containing a carbon-containing material; \n applying a first RF power to at least the first electrode; and \n forming a carbon layer on the surface of the substrate; and \n performing a physical vapor deposition (PVD) process, comprising:\n flowing a second inert gas into the processing chamber; \n applying a second RF power to at least the second electrode; and \n sputtering carbon from the second electrode onto the carbon layer to form the carbon hardmask layer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.06897
- Patent Class: 427.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15195640', '15233351', '11065464', '15882204', '13249794']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.811406293611338
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4968209719883295
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7799477614490372
- Mean Citation Score: 238.153478
- Max Citation Score: 258.01135
- Similarity Product: 207.8816373300612

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

Dataset: test