Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Scanning probe microscope and measurement method using the same
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Application No.: US15252993Application Date: 2016-08-31
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Publication No.: US10345336B2Publication Date: 2019-07-09
- Inventor: Jun Hirota , Tsukasa Nakai , Haruko Akutsu
- Applicant: TOSHIBA MEMORY CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: TOSHIBA MEMORY CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: TOSHIBA MEMORY CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Foley & Lardner LLP
- Priority: JP2016-051367 20160315
- Main IPC: G01Q60/30
- IPC: G01Q60/30

Abstract:
A scanning probe microscope that includes a probe, a positioning unit configured to position a probe on a measurement sample, an excitation unit configured to excite the measurement sample at a predetermined frequency, a resonance unit configured to output a frequency modulation signal by converting a change of a capacitance of the measurement sample, a lock-in amplifier configured to output a differential capacitance signal obtained by extracting a predetermined frequency component and a harmonic component of the predetermined frequency of the demodulated signal, a conversion unit configured to output data indicative of a relationship between a voltage applied to the measurement sample and the capacitance, a detecting unit that detects a voltage value corresponding to a feature point of the relationship data, and a main measurement control unit that measures electrical characteristics of the measurement sample subjected to a DC bias voltage substantially equal to the feature point voltage.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170269123A1 SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPE AND MEASUREMENT METHOD USING THE SAME Public/Granted day:2017-09-21
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