PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16001695
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["438", "626000"]

Abstract:
A substrate processing method is provided for metal filling of recessed features in a substrate. According to one embodiment, the method includes providing a substrate containing horizontally spaced nested and isolated recessed features, filling the nested and isolated recessed features with a blocking material, and performing in any order: a) sequentially first, removing the blocking material from the nested recessed features, and second, filling the nested recessed features with a first metal, and b) sequentially first, removing the blocking material from the isolated recessed features, and second, filling the isolated recessed features with a second metal that is different from the first metal. According to one embodiment, the first metal may include Ru metal and the second metal may include Cu metal. According to one embodiment, a microelectronic device containing metal filled recessed features is provided.

Claim (Index 16):
The method of  claim 15 , wherein the nested recessed features have feature widths that are smaller than a predetermined value and the isolated recessed features have feature widths that are larger than the predetermined value.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.98077
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12571162', '12074168', '11864960', '15293902', '11864566']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8467212482435609
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4958420488847401
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8116333283076789
- Mean Citation Score: 192.592062
- Max Citation Score: 203.88538
- Similarity Product: 146.1928431695676

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test