Charged particle beam device and operation method therefor

    公开(公告)号:US11961701B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-04-16

    申请号:US17603225

    申请日:2019-04-24

    摘要: When adjusting optical axes of a multi-beam charged particle beam device, because parameters of optical systems are inter-dependent, the time required to adjust the parameters increases. Thus, the present invention provides a charged particle beam device provided with an optical parameter setting unit for setting parameters of optical systems for emitting a plurality of primary charged particle beams to a sample, detectors for individually detecting a plurality of secondary charged particle beams discharged from the sample, a plurality of memories for storing signals detected by the detectors and converted into digital pixels in the form of images, evaluation value derivation units for deriving evaluation values of the primary charged particle beams from the images, and a GUI capable of displaying the images and receiving an input from a user, wherein the GUI displays the images and evaluation results based on the evaluation values and changes various optical parameters in real-time.

    CHARGED PARTICLE BEAM APPARATUS
    3.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240014002A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-01-11

    申请号:US18200232

    申请日:2023-05-22

    摘要: The charged particle beam apparatus includes a charged particle source generating a charged particle beam, a deflector deflecting the charged particle beam, a detector detecting secondary electrons emitted from an irradiation target in response to irradiation with the charged particle beam, and a processor system. The processor system (A) acquires a first time-series change in secondary electron detection-related quantity by repeatedly performing the following (A1) and (A2), (A1) directly or indirectly, maintains or changes the control amount applied to the deflector to a first control amount, and (A2) acquires the secondary electron detection-related quantity based on an output from the detector, and (B) acquires a time-series change in variation of the beam diameter of the charged particle beam based on the first time-series change.

    CHARGED PARTICLE BEAM APPARATUS
    5.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20230377837A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-11-23

    申请号:US18031359

    申请日:2020-10-26

    摘要: Charged particle beam apparatus includes: a charged particle optical system to irradiate a sample with a pulsed charged particle beam; an optical system to irradiate the sample with light; a detector configured to detect a secondary charged particle emitted by irradiating the sample with the pulsed charged particle beam; a control unit configured to control the charged particle optical system to irradiate the sample with the pulsed charged particle beam under a predetermined electron beam pulse condition, and control the optical system to irradiate the sample with the light under a predetermined light irradiation condition; and a computation device configured to set the predetermined light irradiation condition based on a difference between a secondary charged particle signal amount detected under a first electron beam pulse condition and a secondary charged particle signal amount detected under a second electron beam pulse condition different from the first electron beam pulse condition.

    Charged particle beam device
    6.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11823861B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-11-21

    申请号:US17617379

    申请日:2019-07-02

    摘要: The invention provides a charged particle beam device that prevents a leakage of an unnecessary magnetic field to a trajectory of a charged particle beam with which a sample is irradiated in a sample observation according to a boosting method. The charged particle beam device includes: a charged particle source configured to generate the charged particle beam with which the sample is irradiated; an object lens configured to generate the magnetic field for focusing the charged particle beam; and a boosting electrode that is provided inside the object lens and to which a voltage for accelerating the charged particle beam is applied. The boosting electrode is formed of a magnetic material.

    System and method for reducing the charging effect in a transmission electron microscope system

    公开(公告)号:US11715618B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-08-01

    申请号:US17392758

    申请日:2021-08-03

    申请人: FEI Company

    摘要: Systems and methods for reducing the buildup of charge during the investigation of samples using charged particle beams, according to the present disclosure include irradiating a first portion of a sample during a first time period, wherein the irradiating the first portion of the sample causes a gradual accumulation of net charge in the first portion of the sample, generating imaging data based on emissions resultant from irradiating the first portion of the sample, and then irradiating a second portion of a sample holder for a second time period. The methods may further includes iteratively repeating the irradiation of the first portion and the second portion during imaging of the sample region. When more than one region of interest on the sample is to be investigated, the method may also include continuing to image additional portions of the sample by iteratively irradiating a region of interest on the sample and a corresponding portion of the sample holder.

    SENSOR MODULE FOR SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY APPLICATIONS

    公开(公告)号:US20230230800A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-07-20

    申请号:US18123850

    申请日:2023-03-20

    申请人: KLA Corporation

    发明人: Marcel Trimpl

    摘要: A scanning electron microscopy (SEM) system is disclosed. The SEM system includes an electron source configured to generate an electron beam and a set of electron optics configured to scan the electron beam across the sample and focus electrons scattered by the sample onto one or more imaging planes. The SEM system includes a first detector module positioned at the one or more imaging planes, wherein the first detector module includes a multipixel solid-state sensor configured to convert scattered particles, such as electrons and/or x-rays, from the sample into a set of equivalent signal charges. The multipixel solid-state sensor is connected to two or more Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) configured to process the set of signal charges from one or more pixels of the sensor.

    ENHANCED ARCHITECTURE FOR HIGH-PERFORMANCE DETECTION DEVICE TECHNICAL FIELD

    公开(公告)号:US20230215685A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-07-06

    申请号:US18000118

    申请日:2021-05-25

    发明人: Yongxin WANG

    IPC分类号: H01J37/244 H01J37/28

    摘要: A detector includes a plurality of sensing elements, section circuitry that communicatively couples a first set of sensing elements to an input of first signal processing circuitry, and a switch network that connects sets of sensing elements. Inter-element switches may connect adjacent sensing elements, including those in a diagonal direction. An output bus may be connected to each sensing element of the first set by a switching element. There may be a common output (pickup point) arranged at one sensing element that is configured to output signals from the first set. Various switching and wiring schemes are proposed. For example, the common output may be directly connected to the switch network. A switch may be provided between the output bus and first signal processing circuitry. A switch may be provided between the switch network and the first signal processing circuitry.