Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Sample observation device and sample observation method
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Application No.: US15898366Application Date: 2018-02-16
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Publication No.: US10559074B2Publication Date: 2020-02-11
- Inventor: Minoru Harada , Yuji Takagi , Naoaki Kondo , Takehiro Hirai
- Applicant: Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
- Current Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Mattingly & Malur, PC
- Priority: JP2017-029011 20170220
- Main IPC: G06T5/50
- IPC: G06T5/50 ; G06T5/00 ; G06T7/00 ; H01J37/22 ; H01J37/20 ; H01J37/28

Abstract:
A sample observation device images a sample placed on a movable table by irradiating and scanning the sample with a charged particle beam of a microscope. A degraded image having poor image quality and a high quality image having satisfactory image quality which are acquired at the same location of the sample by causing the charged particle microscope to change an imaging condition for imaging the sample are stored. An estimation process parameter is calculated for estimating the high quality image from the degraded image by using the stored degraded image and high quality image. A high quality image estimation unit processes the degraded image obtained by causing the charged particle microscope to image the desired site of the sample by using the calculated estimation process parameter. Thereby, the high quality image obtained at the desired site is estimated, and then the estimated high quality image is output.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180240225A1 SAMPLE OBSERVATION DEVICE AND SAMPLE OBSERVATION METHOD Public/Granted day:2018-08-23
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