PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15963451
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["438", "664000"]

Abstract:
Methods for forming a metal silicide film with low resistivity at low temperature are described. A metal silicide film is formed on a substrate surface and annealed at high pressure and low temperature.

Claim (Index 20):
A method of processing a substrate, the method comprising:\n forming a nickel silicide film on a surface of a substrate by co-sputtering nickel and silicon to provide a nickel silicide film with a nickel:silicon ratio in the range of about 0.9:1 to about 1:0.9; and annealing the nickel silicide film at a temperature of less than 400 degrees Celsius in an atmosphere comprising one or more of hydrogen or deuterium and a pressure greater than about 5 bar to form a nickel silicide layer with resistivity less than or equal to about 15 ohms-cm, wherein annealing the metal silicide film changes greater than or equal to about 50% of a volume of the metal silicide film to crystal form.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.4
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15240410', '14975231', '14975028', '12339672', '15186950']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8626073472986759
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5036560387290614
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8267122164417144
- Mean Citation Score: 220.06974600000004
- Max Citation Score: 260.26657
- Similarity Product: 187.2878139429021

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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