PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15958560
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["438", "751000"]

Abstract:
Processes for surface treatment of a workpiece are provided. In one example implementation, a method can include performing an organic radical based surface treatment process on a workpiece. The organic radical based surface treatment process can include generating one or more species in a first chamber. The surface treatment process can include mixing one or more hydrocarbon molecules with the species to create a mixture. The mixture can include one or more organic radicals. The surface treatment process can include exposing a semiconductor material on the workpiece to the mixture in a second chamber.

Claim (Index 23):
A method of processing a semiconductor workpiece, the workpiece comprising a semiconductor material, the semiconductor material comprising silicon or silicon germanium, the method comprising performing an organic radical based surface treatment process on the semiconductor material, the organic radical based surface treatment process comprising:\n generating one or more excited species in an inert gas in a plasma chamber by inducing a plasma in the inert gas with an inductively coupled plasma source; filtering the one or more excited species generated by the plasma to create a first mixture; generating one or more organic radicals by injecting one or more hydrocarbon molecules into the first mixture post filtering, wherein the one or more hydrocarbon molecules have a chemical formula of C n H 2n+2  or C n H 2n , where n is greater than or equal to 1 and less than or equal to 10; and exposing the semiconductor material to the organic radicals in a processing chamber, the processing chamber being separated from the plasma chamber by a separation grid.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.19565
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15958601', '15843043', '14855261', '14064933', '15342943']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8500619862705233
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4960742241832641
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8146632100617974
- Mean Citation Score: 195.257758
- Max Citation Score: 277.9834
- Similarity Product: 244.1511001351476

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

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