PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15920295
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["438", "009000"]

Abstract:
A method is disclosed for monitoring and controlling a process of plasma-assisted surface modification of a layer formed on a substrate. The method includes flowing a surface modification gas into a plasma processing chamber of a plasma processing system, igniting a plasma in the plasma processing chamber to initiate a surface modification process for a layer formed on a substrate, and acquiring optical emission spectra from an optical emission spectroscopy system attached to the plasma processing chamber, during the surface modification process for the layer. For one embodiment, the method includes altering at least one parameter of the surface modification process based on the acquired optical emission spectra. For one embodiment, the acquired optical emission spectra can include an intensity of a spectral line, a slope of a spectral line, or both to enable endpoint control of the surface modification process. Additional methods and related systems are also disclosed.

Claim (Index 10):
The method of  claim 9 , wherein the at least one parameter of the surface modification process is selected from a group consisting of RF or microwave power supplied to a plasma processing chamber, RF or microwave power pulse frequency, RF or microwave pulse duty cycle, substrate temperature, RF power supplied to a substrate holder in the plasma processing chamber, DC bias of the substrate holder, DC bias voltage supplied to at least one electrode arranged proximate the substrate holder, gas flow rate, gas pressure, surface modification gas flow, surface modification gas pressure, and duration of the surface modification process.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 104.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.33333
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: closed
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10841818', '10770839', '15701796', '14056059', '15053368']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8857840572641332
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4941355016019377
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8466192016979137
- Mean Citation Score: 217.223484
- Max Citation Score: 231.48509
- Similarity Product: 168.729527048018

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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