Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Charged particle beam apparatus
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Application No.: US15940868Application Date: 2018-03-29
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Publication No.: US10755890B2Publication Date: 2020-08-25
- Inventor: Shinya Ueno , Hiroshi Nishihama , Shaungqi Dong , Shahedul Hoque , Susumu Koyama
- Applicant: Hitachi High-Tech Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Hitachi High-Tech Corporation
- Current Assignee: Hitachi High-Tech Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Crowell & Moring LLP
- Priority: com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@1ab5e6ee
- Main IPC: H01J37/147
- IPC: H01J37/147 ; H01J37/20 ; H01J37/26 ; H01J37/28 ; H01J37/22

Abstract:
An object of the invention is to provide a charged particle beam apparatus capable of achieving both acquisition of an image having high resolution of an inspection target pattern and suppression of a beam irradiation amount when a specific pattern is an inspection target from a highly integrated pattern group. In order to achieve the object, a charged particle beam apparatus is proposed in which at least one of a stage and a deflector is controlled so as to move a field of view from a reference position to an inspection or measurement target pattern, the number of objects included in a first image obtained by scanning a position of the field of view in a moving process of the field of view with a charged particle beam of a first irradiation condition is counted, and in a case where the number of the objects satisfies a predetermined condition, a second image is generated based on scanning with a charged particle beam of a second irradiation condition of a higher dose than that of the first irradiation condition.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180286627A1 Charged Particle Beam Apparatus Public/Granted day:2018-10-04
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