摘要:
A compact electron microscope uses a removable sample holder having walls that form a part of the vacuum region in which the sample resides. By using the removable sample holder to contain the vacuum, the volume of air requiring evacuation before imaging is greatly reduced and the microscope can be evacuated rapidly. In a preferred embodiment, a sliding vacuum seal allows the sample holder to be positioned under the electron column, and the sample holder is first passed under a vacuum buffer to remove air in the sample holder.
摘要:
Methods and apparatus for calibration of a scanned beam system (8) are provided by sampling a calibration specimen (22) containing an array of targets with a spacing between samples that is greater than the spacing between targets in an array and forming an image from the samples to reduce calibration specimen degradation and to magnify calibration errors to enable very fine calibration of the scanned beam system (8).
摘要:
Transmissivity is restored to a gallium stained substrate by directing an electron beam to the substrate in the presence of an etching gas. For higher concentration of implanted gallium, the transparency can be substantially restored without reducing the thickness of the substrate. For lower doses of implanted gallium, the transmission is restored to 100% although the thickness of the substrate is reduced. The invention is suitable for use in the repair of photolitography masks.
摘要:
A beam processing system, such as a focused ion beam or an electron beam (232) system addressing an arbitrary series of points and receives data from the point in real time. The data can be used to image or to alter the processing, even within a single dwell period, thereby allowing closed feedback loop for processing. A delay calculator (324) automatically determines the delay between instructing the system to move the beam and detecting a signal from the work piece surface so that the detector signal can be matched with the location on the work piece (239) at which the signal was generated.