Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Charged particle-beam device and specimen observation method
- Patent Title (中): 带电粒子束装置和样本观察方法
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Application No.: US14891494Application Date: 2014-03-12
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Publication No.: US09466460B2Publication Date: 2016-10-11
- Inventor: Yusuke Ominami , Taku Sakazume , Sukehiro Ito
- Applicant: Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
- Current Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Crowell & Moring LLP
- Priority: JP2013-113591 20130530
- International Application: PCT/JP2014/056392 WO 20140312
- International Announcement: WO2014/192361 WO 20141204
- Main IPC: H01J37/26
- IPC: H01J37/26 ; G01N23/04 ; H01J37/22 ; H01J37/20 ; H01J37/244 ; H01J37/28 ; H01J37/10

Abstract:
An electron microscope has a large depth of focus in comparison with an optical microscope. Thus, information is superimposed on one image in the direction of depth. Therefore, it is necessary to accurately specify the three-dimensional position and density of a structure in a specimen so as to observe the three-dimensional structure of the interior of the specimen by using the electron microscope. Furthermore, a specimen that is observed with the optical microscope on a slide glass is not put into a TEM device of the related art. Thus, performing three-dimensional internal structure observation with the electron microscope on a location that is observed with the optical microscope requires very cumbersome preparation of the specimen. By controlling a vector parameter that defines the interrelationship between a primary charged particle beam and the specimen and by irradiation with the primary charged particle beam with a plurality of different vector parameters, images of transmitted charged particles of the specimen that correspond to each of the vector parameters are obtained. Irradiation with the primary charged particle beam is performed on the specimen that is arranged either directly or through a predetermined member on a detector which detects charged particles transmitted through or scattered by the interior of the specimen.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160126058A1 Charged-Particle-Beam Device and Specimen Observation Method Public/Granted day:2016-05-05
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