Method for Adjusting Height of Sample and Observation System

    公开(公告)号:US20180174796A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-06-21

    申请号:US15580403

    申请日:2015-06-29

    摘要: In a device for performing observation with a charged particle microscope at an atmospheric pressure using a diaphragm, while there was a demand that a distance between the diaphragm and a sample be reduced as much as possible, there was a problem that a limit for how close the diaphragm and the sample can be brought to each other was unknown in the past. In the present invention, a height adjustment member is used, and the position of a diaphragm in a charged particle beam device with respect to the height adjustment member is defined as the specific point of an optical device, so that the positional relationship between the height adjustment member and the diaphragm in the optical device is reproduced, and the height of a sample table with a Z-axis driving mechanism is adjusted so as to locate the surface of the sample at the position of the specific point of the optical device. According to this, the distance between the diaphragm and the sample can be safely and simply adjusted, and thus, an object is to adjust the distance between the diaphragm and the sample so that the distance is reduced as much as possible or the distance is fixed every time the sample is replaced.

    Charged Particle Beam Device and Filter Member
    2.
    发明申请
    Charged Particle Beam Device and Filter Member 有权
    带电粒子束和过滤器

    公开(公告)号:US20160071685A1

    公开(公告)日:2016-03-10

    申请号:US14782695

    申请日:2014-03-05

    IPC分类号: H01J37/16 H01J37/26

    摘要: In a SEM device which enables observations under an atmospheric pressure, in the event that a diaphragm is damaged during an observation of a sample, air flows into a charged particle optical barrel from the vicinity of the sample, due to the differential pressure between the inside of the charged particle optical barrel under vacuum and the vicinity of the sample under the atmospheric pressure. At this time, the sample may be sucked into the charged particle optical barrel. In this case, a charged particle optical system and a detector are contaminated thereby, which causes performance degradation or failures of the charged particle microscope. For coping therewith, it is necessary to prevent the charged particle optical barrel from being contaminated, without inducing a time lag, with a simple structure. In a charged particle beam device adapted to place a sample in a non-vacuum environment, there is provided a filter member which is placed on the path of a primary charged particle beam at least in a state where the primary charged particle beam is directed to the sample and, further, is adapted to transmit or pass, therethrough, the primary charged particle beam and secondary charged particles derived from the sample, while intercepting at least a portion of a scattering substance which is scattered in the event of a fracture of the diaphragm.

    摘要翻译: 在能够在大气压下进行观察的SEM装置中,在样品观察期间膜片损伤的情况下,由于内部的压差,空气从样品附近流入带电粒子光学镜筒 的带电粒子光学筒在真空下和样品在大气压附近。 此时,样品可以被吸入带电粒子光学筒中。 在这种情况下,带电粒子光学系统和检测器被污染,导致带电粒子显微镜的性能下降或失效。 为了应对,需要以简单的结构防止带电粒子光学筒被污染,而不会引起时间滞后。 在适于将样品置于非真空环境中的带电粒子束装置中,设置有过滤构件,其至少在初级带电粒子束被引导到 样品,并且还适于透射或通过从样品衍生的初级带电粒子束和二次带电粒子,同时截留至少一部分在发生断裂的情况下散射的散射物质 隔膜

    CHARGED PARTICLE BEAM DEVICE, IMAGE GENERATION METHOD, OBSERVATION SYSTEM
    3.
    发明申请
    CHARGED PARTICLE BEAM DEVICE, IMAGE GENERATION METHOD, OBSERVATION SYSTEM 有权
    充电颗粒光束装置,图像生成方法,观察系统

    公开(公告)号:US20160329188A1

    公开(公告)日:2016-11-10

    申请号:US15109481

    申请日:2014-12-24

    摘要: Provided is a charged particle beam device capable of observing the interior and the surface of a sample in a simple manner. This charged particle beam device operates in a transmitted charged particle image mode and a secondary charged particle image mode. In the transmitted charged particle image mode, a transmitted charged particle image is produced on the basis of a detection signal (512) associated with light emitted from a light-emitting member (500) that emits light upon being irradiated with transmitted charged particles transmitted through the interior of a sample (6). In the secondary charged particle image mode, a secondary charged particle image is produced on the basis of a detection signal (518) caused by reflected charged particles or secondary charged particles (517) from the sample (6).

    摘要翻译: 提供了能够以简单的方式观察样品的内部和表面的带电粒子束装置。 该带电粒子束装置以透射带电粒子图像模式和二次带电粒子图像模式工作。 在透射带电粒子图像模式中,透射带电粒子图像是根据与从发射元件(500)发射的光相关联的检测信号(512)产生的,该发光元件(500)在被透射的透射带电粒子照射时发光 样品(6)的内部。 在二次带电粒子图像模式中,基于由来自样品(6)的反射带电粒子或二次带电粒子(517)引起的检测信号(518)产生二次带电粒子图像。

    Charged Particle Beam Apparatus and Sample Image Acquiring Method
    4.
    发明申请
    Charged Particle Beam Apparatus and Sample Image Acquiring Method 有权
    带电粒子束装置和样本图像采集方法

    公开(公告)号:US20160203944A1

    公开(公告)日:2016-07-14

    申请号:US14912521

    申请日:2014-03-10

    IPC分类号: H01J37/28 H01J37/26 H01J37/18

    摘要: Disclosed is a charged particle beam apparatus wherein a partitioning film capable of transmitting a charged particle beam is provided between a charged particle optical system and a sample, said charged particle beam apparatus eliminating a contact between the sample and the partitioning film even in the cases where the sample has recesses and protrusions. On the basis of detection signals or an image generated on the basis of the detection signals, a distance between a sample and a partitioning film is monitored, said detection signals being outputted from a detector that detects secondary charged particles discharged from the sample due to irradiation of a primary charged particle beam.

    摘要翻译: 公开了一种带电粒子束装置,其中在带电粒子光学系统和样品之间提供能够传输带电粒子束的分隔膜,所述带电粒子束装置消除了样品与分隔膜之间的接触,即使在 样品具有凹凸。 基于检测信号或基于检测信号生成的图像,监测样品和分隔膜之间的距离,所述检测信号从检测器输出,该检测器检测由于照射而从样品排出的二次带电粒子 的初级带电粒子束。

    ELECTRON SCANNING MICROSCOPE AND IMAGE GENERATION METHOD

    公开(公告)号:US20180122617A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-05-03

    申请号:US15855370

    申请日:2017-12-27

    IPC分类号: H01J37/18 H01J37/16 H01J37/28

    摘要: In a scanning electron microscope, an atmospheric pressure space having a specimen arranged therein and a vacuum space arranged on a charged particle optical system side are isolated from each other using an isolation film that transmits charged particle beams. The scanning electron microscope has an electron optical lens barrel, a chassis, and an isolation film. The electron optical lens barrel radiates a primary electron beam onto a specimen. The chassis is directly bonded to the inside of the electron optical lens barrel and has an inside that turns into a lower vacuum state than the inside of the electron optical lens barrel at least during the radiation of the primary electron beam. The isolation film isolates a space in an atmospheric pressure atmosphere having a specimen mounted therein and the inside of the chassis in a lower vacuum state, and transmits the primary charged particle beam.

    ELECTRON SCANNING MICROSCOPE AND IMAGE GENERATION METHOD
    6.
    发明申请
    ELECTRON SCANNING MICROSCOPE AND IMAGE GENERATION METHOD 有权
    电子扫描显微镜和图像生成方法

    公开(公告)号:US20160343538A1

    公开(公告)日:2016-11-24

    申请号:US15111907

    申请日:2015-02-10

    IPC分类号: H01J37/18 H01J37/28

    摘要: In a scanning electron microscope, an atmospheric pressure space having a specimen arranged therein and a vacuum space arranged on a charged particle optical system side are isolated from each other using an isolation film that transmits charged particle beams. The scanning electron microscope has an electron optical lens barrel, a chassis, and an isolation film. The electron optical lens barrel radiates a primary electron beam onto a specimen. The chassis is directly bonded to the inside of the electron optical lens barrel and has an inside that turns into a lower vacuum state than the inside of the electron optical lens barrel at least during the radiation of the primary electron beam. The isolation film isolates a space in an atmospheric pressure atmosphere having a specimen mounted therein and the inside of the chassis in a lower vacuum state, and transmits the primary charged particle beam.

    摘要翻译: 在扫描型电子显微镜中,使用透过带电粒子束的隔离膜将具有布置在其中的试样的空气压力空间和布置在带电粒子光学系统侧的真空空间彼此隔离。 扫描电子显微镜具有电子光学镜筒,底盘和隔离膜。 电子光学镜筒将一次电子束辐射到样品上。 底盘直接接合到电子光学镜筒的内部,并且至少在一次电子束的辐射期间具有变成比电子光学镜筒的内部更低的真空状态的内部。 隔离膜将具有安装在其中的试样的大气压气氛中的空间与底盘的内部隔离,并且透射初级带电粒子束。

    Charged-Particle-Beam Device, Specimen-Image Acquisition Method, and Program Recording Medium
    7.
    发明申请
    Charged-Particle-Beam Device, Specimen-Image Acquisition Method, and Program Recording Medium 有权
    带电粒子束装置,样本图像采集方法和程序记录介质

    公开(公告)号:US20160336145A1

    公开(公告)日:2016-11-17

    申请号:US15110284

    申请日:2014-12-03

    摘要: A charged-particle-beam device is provided with a data processing unit that removes, from a detector signal, the effect that scattering of a primary charged-particle beam before the primary charged-particle beam reaches a specimen has on the spot shape of the primary charged-particle beam. For example, when using an electron microscope to observe a specimen in a non-vacuum atmosphere, the effect that scattering of a primary charged-particle beam due to a barrier film or a gas present in a non-vacuum space has on the spot shape of the primary charged-particle beam is removed from a signal acquired by a detector. This makes it easy to obtain high-quality images.

    摘要翻译: 带电粒子束装置设置有数据处理单元,该数据处理单元从检测器信号中去除在初级带电粒子束到达样本之前的初级带电粒子束的散射具有的斑点形状 初级带电粒子束。 例如,当使用电子显微镜在非真空气氛中观察样品时,由于阻挡膜或存在于非真空空间中的气体引起的初级带电粒子束的散射的影响具有点形状 的初级带电粒子束从由检测器获取的信号中去除。 这使得获得高质量图像变得容易。