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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To achieve a stable irradiation of a beam without using a complicated adjusting mechanism. SOLUTION: A focused ion beam device includes: a needle-like chip 1; a gas-supplying part including a gas nozzle 2 for an ion source and a gas supply source 3 for the ion source to supply gas to the chip 1; an extraction electrode 4 applying voltage with the chip 1 and extracting ions by ionizing the gas adsorbed onto a surface of the chip 1; an ion gun part 19 including a cathode electrode 5 accelerating ions toward a sample 13; a gun alignment electrode 9 located closer to the sample 13 than the ion gun part 19 and adjusting an irradiation direction of an ion beam 11 emitted from the ion gun part 19; and a lens system including a focusing lens electrode 6 focusing the ion beam 11 on the sample 13 and an objective lens electrode 8. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To confirm a tip structure of an emitter without introducing a system for FIM image acquisition.SOLUTION: A focused ion beam device which supplies gas to a chip 1, impresses voltage on an extraction electrode 4, and emits an ion beam 11 from the chip 1, is provided with a current measurement portion 111 varying voltage and measuring current volume of the ion beam 11, and a processing unit 114 performing comparison process between measurement data measured at the current measurement portion 111 and standard data. Thus the focused ion beam device inspects a chip tip structure.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To use appropriate ion species in accordance with applications by easily carrying out changeover of ion species of ion sources.SOLUTION: The focused ion beam device includes a storage part 302 storing a set temperature of a chip, gas pressure of ion-source gas, extraction voltage impressed on an extraction electrode, a set value of contrast, and a set value of brightness, an input part 106 selecting and inputting gas species, and a control part 301 reading out the set temperature corresponding to the gas species input, gas pressure, extraction voltage, the set value of contrast, and the set value of brightness from the storage part 302 and setting a heater part 1b, a gas control part 104, a voltage control part 27 and an adjustment part 303 of observation images, respectively.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a composite charged particle beam device, in which a sample can be observed without being contaminated during a process. SOLUTION: The composite charged particle beam device is provided with an ion beam radiation system 20 provided with a gas field ion source, an electron beam radiation system 50 of which radiation axis is disposed at 90 deg. or a smaller angle than 90 deg. to the radiation axis of the ion beam radiation system 20, a sample table 14 to support the sample at a crossing position of the ion beam 20A outputted from the ion beam radiation system 20 with the electron beam 50A outputted from the electron beam radiation system 50, and a gas gun 11 to supply function gas for deposition or etching the beam radiation position on the sample. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a focused ion beam device which exhibits high throughput of sample processing by increasing the amount of ion beam used for irradiating a sample.SOLUTION: In the emitter of a field ionization type ion source which emits an ion beam 7 by field ionizing gas supplied to the emitter 1 with an electric field formed at the tip thereof, the tip of the emitter 1 consists of a protrusion 1c of atomic level, a spherical part having a protrusion, and a columnar portion continuous to the spherical part and having a slope angle. The spherical part has a radius of curvature of 110 nm or more and a slope angle of 15° or less in the focused ion beam device including the emitter of the field ionization type ion source.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To accurately comprehend an emitter crystal structure from an FIM image without being influenced by disturbances such as contamination, and also to judge whether the emitter crystal structure returns to an original status correctly or not even when atom rearrangement is carried out. SOLUTION: A focused ion beam apparatus is provided with an emitter 10, a gas source 11 to supply gas G2, a cooling portion 12 to cool down the emitter, a heating portion 13 to heat a tip of the emitter, an extraction power source portion 15 to extract gas by making the same into gas ion at the emitter tip by impressing an extraction voltage, a beam optical system 16 to irradiate focused ion beams (FIB) to a sample S after making the gas ion into the FIB, an image acquisition mechanism 17 to acquire an FIM image at the emitter tip and, a control portion 7 which has a display portion and a memory portion 7b. The memory portion has a guide memorized in advance to display an ideal crystal structure at the emitter tip, and capable of displaying to the display portion by overlapping the guide on the FIM image acquired by the control portion. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To confirm a tip structure of an emitter, without introducing a system for obtaining FIM image.SOLUTION: The focused ion beam device, including a gas supply part supplying gas to a chip 1, an extraction electrode 4 extracting ion beams 11, and a gun alignment electrode 9 adjusting irradiation directions of the ion beams 11, is also provided with an aperture 10 equipped with an opening 10a for passing ion beams emitted from one atom at a tip of the chip 1, and a current measurement part measuring a current volume of the ion beams 11 passing the opening 10a.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To aim at regeneration of a pyramid structure of a tip of a chip without taking it out from a charged particle beam device.SOLUTION: The charged particle beam device is provided with: a needle-like chip 1; a gas supply unit supplying gas to the chip 1; an extraction electrode 4 for extracting an ion beam by ionizing a gas adsorbed on a chip surface; a voltage supply unit 27 impressing voltage between the chip 1 and the extraction electrode 4; and a chip regeneration electrode equipped with the same metal as that of the chip surface, on a surface where the ion beam is irradiated.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To achieve a stable irradiation of a beam without using a complicated adjusting mechanism. SOLUTION: A focused ion beam device includes: a needle-like chip 1; a gas-supplying part including a gas nozzle 2 for an ion source and a gas supply source 3 for the ion source to supply gas to the chip 1; an extraction electrode 4 applying voltage with the chip 1 and extracting ions by ionizing the gas adsorbed onto a surface of the chip 1; an ion gun part 19 including a cathode electrode 5 accelerating ions toward a sample 13; a second aperture 10 arranged between the ion gun part 19 and a lens system; and the lens system including a focusing lens electrode 6 focusing an ion beam 11 on the sample 13 and an objective lens electrode 8. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a focused ion beam device capable of thinly focusing a beam diameter and changing an ion beam current in a wide range. SOLUTION: The focused ion beam device comprises: a plasma generator 3 having a plasma torch 2 which maintains plasma in the inside and makes the plasma flow in the inside; a differential exhaust chamber 5 connecting with the plasma torch via a torch orifice 4 and making the plasma flow out from the torch orifice 4 into a supersonic flow by means of adiabatic expansion; a pulling-out orifice 6 arranged at a position facing to the torch orifice of the differential exhaust chamber and pulling out an ion from the plasma made as the supersonic flow; a pulling-out electrode 7 for pulling out the ion passing through the pulling-out orifice by further electrostatically accelerating the ion; and an ion optical system 13 for making the ion pulled out from the pulling-out orifice made incident into a workpiece 15 by focusing the ion while adding an ion-optical operation. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT