PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15993768
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["257", "365000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure provides methods for forming conductive features in a dielectric layer without using adhesion layers or barrier layers and devices formed thereby. In some embodiments, a structure comprising a dielectric layer over a substrate, and a conductive feature disposed through the dielectric layer. The dielectric layer has a lower surface near the substrate and a top surface distal from the substrate. The conductive feature is in direct contact with the dielectric layer, and the dielectric layer comprises an implant species. A concentration of the implant species in the dielectric layer has a peak concentration proximate the top surface of the dielectric layer, and the concentration of the implant species decreases from the peak concentration in a direction towards the lower surface of the dielectric layer.

Claim (Index 24):
The method of  claim 21 , further comprising forming an etch stop layer over the substrate, wherein the dielectric material is deposited over the etch stop layer, wherein the conductive material is disposed through the etch stop layer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.30508
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15920745', '15441063', '13548783', '15651167', '14928916']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9060023734177008
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.488875220206218
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8642896580965524
- Mean Citation Score: 158.20384
- Max Citation Score: 168.0564
- Similarity Product: 107.59865558259489

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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