摘要:
A method and system for creating a substantially planar face in a substrate, the method including directing one or more beams at a first surface of a substrate to remove material from a first location in the substrate, the beam being offset from a normal to the first surface by a nonzero curtaining angle; sweeping the one or more beams in a plane that is perpendicular to the first surface to mill one or more initial cuts in the substrate, the initial cuts exposing a second surface that is substantially perpendicular to the first surface; rotating the substrate through a nonzero rotation angle about an axis other than an axis that is normal to the first beam or parallel to the first beam; directing the first beam at the second surface to remove additional material from the substrate without changing the first nonzero curtaining angle; and scanning the one or more beams in a pattern across the second surface to mill one or more finishing cuts in the substrate.
摘要:
An improved beam-defining aperture structure and method for fabrication is realized. An aperture opening (432) is made in a thin conductive film (420) positioned over a cavity (430) in a support substrate (410), where the aperture size and shape is determined by the opening in the conductive film and not determined by the cavity in the substrate.
摘要:
A method and apparatus for directing light or gas or both to a specimen positioned within about 2 mm from the lower end of a charged particle beam column. The charged particle beam column assembly includes a platform defining a specimen holding position and has a set of electrostatic lenses each including a set of electrodes. The assembly includes a final electrostatic lens that includes a final electrode that is closest to the specimen holding position. This final electrode defines at least one internal passageway having a terminus that is proximal to and directed toward the specimen holding position.
摘要:
A functionalized specimen support for use in charged particle microscopy is provided that includes a specimen support surface configured to support specimens (e.g. DNA strands 1051) during an interrogation of the specimens with a charged particle microscope, the specimen support surface having functionalized sites 1031, each functionalized site configured to maintain position of a portion of one of the specimens at the functionalized site by way of attachment, attraction, or a combination thereof.
摘要:
A method and apparatus for actively monitoring conditions of a plasma source for adjustment and control of the source and to detect the presence of unwanted contaminant species in a plasma reaction chamber (220). Preferred embodiments include a spectrometer (252) used to quantify components of the plasma. A system controller is provided that uses feedback loops based on spectral analysis of the plasma to regulate the ion composition of the plasma source. The system also provides end pointing means based on spectral analysis to determine when cleaning of the plasma source is completed.