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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
Abstract:
The objective is to obtain a particle beam irradiation apparatus that can perform in a changeable manner the combination of a plurality of parameters in particle beam irradiation, such as the combination of irradiation fields and irradiation position accuracies, and that can perform diverse-variation irradiation. The particle beam irradiation apparatus (58) irradiates a charged particle beam (3) accelerated by a accelerator (54) onto an irradiation subject (11); the particle beam irradiation apparatus (58) includes a scanning electromagnet (1, 2) that scans the charged particle beam (3), and a scanning electromagnet moving apparatus (4) that moves the scanning electromagnet (1, 2) in such a way as to change the distance between the scanning electromagnet (1, 2) and the irradiation subject (11) in the beam axis direction of the charged particle beam (3).
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of optimizing a cathode temperature of an electron gun in a short time when regulating an emission current in order to obtain a desired current density.SOLUTION: An operation temperature adjustment method of a cathode includes the steps of: acquiring an approximation formula approximating a correlation between an emission current value and an operation temperature of the cathode; measuring a current density of an electron beam emitted from the cathode in the state where an n-th emission current value and an n-th operation temperature of the cathode are set to an electron beam source; determining whether the measured current density is within an allowable range; changing the set n-th emission current value into an (n+1)th emission current value in the case where the current density is not within the allowable range; and using the approximation formula to compute an operation temperature of the cathode corresponding to the (n+1)th emission current value and setting the computed operation temperature to the electron beam source as an (n+1)th operation temperature of the cathode.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technique advantageous to achieve high throughput with a reduced buffer memory capacity in a charged particle beam lithography apparatus.SOLUTION: A charged particle beam lithography apparatus includes a deflector for deflecting a charged particle beam and a stage mechanism for driving a substrate. The deflector scans the charged particle beam in a main scanning direction, and the stage mechanism scans the substrate in a sub-scanning direction, so that a pattern is drawn on the substrate. The charged particle beam lithography apparatus further includes: a blanker unit for controlling irradiating or not irradiating the substrate with the charged particle beam; and a control unit for controlling, when the drawing on the substrate is resumed after suspended in a state the stage mechanism drives the substrate in the sub-scanning direction, the deflector to deflect the charged particle beam in the sub-scanning direction, by the drive amount of the substrate by the stage mechanism in the sub-scanning direction during a period from the suspension to the resumption of the drawing.