PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16418006
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["257", "737000"]

Abstract:
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a structured interlayer on the substrate and having a defined edge, and a structured metallization on the structured interlayer and also having a defined edge. The defined edge of the structured interlayer faces the same direction as the defined edge of the structured metallization. The defined edge of the structured interlayer extends beyond the defined edge of the structured metallization by at least 0.5 microns so that the defined edge of the structured metallization terminates before reaching the defined edge of the structured interlayer. The structured interlayer has a compressive residual stress at room temperature and the structured metallization generates a tensile stress at room temperature that is at least partly counteracted by the compressive residual stress of the structured interlayer.

Claim (Index 26):
The method of  claim 22 , wherein forming the structured interlayer and forming the structured metallization comprises:\n depositing a first interlayer material on the substrate and a second interlayer material on the first interlayer material, the first and the second interlayer materials forming a bilayer interlayer having an overall compressive residual stress at room temperature; etching an exposed part of the second interlayer material selective to the first interlayer material before depositing any metal of the structured metallization; forming a mask on the etched second interlayer material, the mask covering at least a 0.5 micron periphery around the perimeter of the etched second interlayer material and having an opening which exposes the etched second interlayer material inward from the periphery; depositing metal in the opening of the mask to form the structured metallization, wherein the mask prevents the metal from being deposited on the periphery of the etched second interlayer material; and etching an exposed part of the first interlayer material selective to the second interlayer material after depositing the metal, to form the structured interlayer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 39.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.82979
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15686576', '13192376', '12670303', '13965567', '15729774']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9122152193894992
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5823245982751677
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8792261572780661
- Mean Citation Score: 225.768304
- Max Citation Score: 472.0222
- Similarity Product: 438.2208713825464

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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