PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15878349
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["438", "703000"]

Abstract:
Methods and apparatuses for selectively depositing silicon nitride on silicon surfaces relative to silicon oxide surfaces and selectively depositing silicon nitride on silicon oxide surfaces relative to silicon surfaces are provided herein. Methods involve blocking one surface while leaving another surface unblocked and selectively depositing silicon nitride on the unblocked surface. The blocked surface may include an organic moiety having an Si—C bond. The method may include blocking one of an exposed hydroxyl-terminated silicon-containing surface and an exposed hydrogen-terminated silicon-containing surface of the substrate. Apparatuses include a process chamber having a pedestal, an outlet, and a controller for providing instructions for causing delivery of a semiconductor substrate to the pedestal, causing introduction of a silicon-containing precursor and causing introduction of a nitrogen-containing reactant without igniting a plasma.

Claim (Index 20):
An apparatus for processing semiconductor substrates, the apparatus comprising:\n a process chamber comprising a pedestal for holding a substrate; at least one outlet for coupling to a vacuum; and a controller for controlling operations in the apparatus including machine-readable instructions for: causing delivery of a semiconductor substrate to pedestal of the process chamber, causing introduction of a blocking reagent to the process chamber, causing introduction of a silicon-containing precursor to the process chamber and causing introduction of a nitrogen-containing reactant without igniting a plasma.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.14286
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15462695', '15456301', '15453815', '15432634', '15349753']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8730048955685222
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.549682412201128
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8406726472317828
- Mean Citation Score: 320.138646
- Max Citation Score: 439.2137
- Similarity Product: 289.1226165944576

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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