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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 provide a charged particle beam device capable of preventing a minute quantity of dust from adhering to an electrostatic lens being an object lens, and of applying a high voltage to the electrostatic lens. SOLUTION: This charged particle beam device 1 is provided with: a chamber 2 capable of evacuating the inside 2a thereof by an in-chamber evacuation means 4; and a lens barrel 3 for irradiating a sample S arranged in the inside 2a of the chamber 2 with a charged particle beam B1. The lens barrel 3 is provided with: a cylindrical body 5 with an irradiation opening 6 for emitting the charged particle beam B1 formed therein; a charged particle beam supply part 7 housed on the side of a base end 5c in the inside 5b of the cylindrical body 5 for emitting the charged particle beam B1; and an object lens 11 housed on the side of a tip 5a of the inside 5b of the cylindrical body 5, and having the electrostatic lens for generating an electric field to focus the charged particle beam B1 emitted from the charged particle beam supply part 7. In the cylindrical body 5 of the lens barrel 3, a gas supply means 12 capable of supplying gas G to the inside 5b of the cylindrical body 5 is arranged on the base end side of the object lens 11. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and a system for inspecting a semiconductor by which the continuity etc., of circuit elements in a semiconductor device can be inspected by observation by a scanning charged particle microscope such as the electronic microscope etc., without performing such troublesome work as the random access operation of a probe. SOLUTION: An electronic circuit is inspected by observing contrast changes on the surface of a sample of a semiconductor device when the surface is highly electrified by irradiating an electron beam or an ion beam of positive charge upon the surface, and when an ion beam of reversely-charged positive charge or the electron beam is irradiated upon the surface in the desired pattern of an area showing a highly charged state by using a composite device provided with an electron lens barrel 2, an ion beam lens barrel 1, and a secondary charged particle detector 4. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system equipped with an FIB lens barrel and an SEM lens barrel of which the secondary electron emitted from the FIB is prevented from being turned into noise for an SEM detection signal when observing a process implementing FIB work in real time by an SEM. SOLUTION: The device equipped with the FIB lens barrel and the SEM lens barrel has a slit formed into a shape to be worked at an aperture of the FIB. By this, ion beam work is performed by transferring a pattern on the surface a sample, not by scanning a converged ion beam thereon. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a complex type charged particle beam device capable of obtaining necessary detection signals in both detection units, by balancing the influence that retracting electric fields for detecting secondary ions and secondary electrons with different charges have upon each other. SOLUTION: The complex type charged particle beam device installed with both a secondary ion detecting unit 2 and a secondary electron detecting unit 1 is provided with a means for detecting detection signal levels of the secondary ion detecting unit 2 and the secondary electron detecting unit 1 so as to be able to obtain at the same time in good balance signals of the both units 2, 1, and a means equipped with an impression voltage varying means 6 at retracting electrodes 3n, 3p of the secondary ion detecting units 2 and the secondary electron detecting unit 1 for controlling the impression voltage varying means 6 based on the detection signal levels. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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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 composite charged particle beam device in which damage due to ion beam irradiation is reduced by aligning an electron beam and an ion beam using minimum ion beam irradiation, and further to provide a composite charged particle beam device which allows an irradiation position to be determined by electron beam irradiation even in an ion beam irradiation where it is difficult to determine the position using ion microscopic observation. SOLUTION: In the composite device which comprises a SEM lens-barrel 2, a FIB lens-barrel 1, and a secondary electron detector 4; the electron beam is scanned from the SEM lens-barrel on a sample plane, a negative electrical charge is electrified on the sample plane, and its microscope image (an SEM image) is observed. If a positive ion is irradiated from the FIB lens-barrel in the charged region while observing, a contrast change appears in an FIB irradiation position. The FIB irradiation position can be determined by measuring the position of the contrast change. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,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.