Abstract:
Provided is a small-size electronic lens having a small aberration for use in a microscope and an evaluation device using an electronic beam. The electronic lens is characterized in that its characteristic can be modified in a short time without using a complicated correction device. In the electronic lens, a correction electrode (11) is arranged in the vicinity of objective lenses (12, 13) as electrostatic lenses for correcting the aberration. Alternatively, a correction mechanism formed by a magnet is arranged in the vicinity of the objective lenses as magnetic lenses for correcting the aberration.
Abstract:
An object of the invention is to efficiently execute aberration correction in an electron microscope including an aberration corrector that corrects aberration using a multipole lens. The electron microscope according to the invention includes an aberration corrector that includes first and second multipole lenses, a transfer lens, and an adjustment lens, in which the first multipole lens is configured to correct third-order spherical aberration by adjusting a lens current, and third-order spherical aberration and fifth-order spherical aberration are collectively corrected by adjusting a transfer lens current while changing an adjustment lens current.
Abstract:
A permanent magnetic lens array for charged-particle focusing includes a first sheet of soft magnetic material, wherein the first sheet of soft magnetic material includes a plurality of snorkel cone protrusions arranged in an array pattern, wherein each snorkel cone is axially symmetric and includes an opening passing from a first surface of the first sheet of soft magnetic material to a second surface of soft magnetic material, and a plurality of permanent magnetic elements, wherein each permanent magnetic element is axially symmetric and arranged concentrically with a snorkel cone of the first sheet of soft magnetic material, wherein the snorkel cones of the first sheet of soft magnetic material and the plurality of permanent magnetic elements are configured to form a plurality of magnetic lenses, wherein each magnetic lens has a magnetic field with an axial component oriented perpendicular to the first surface of the soft magnetic material.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a compact electron lens causing little aberration, and a charged particle beam apparatus such as a scanning electron microscope that is super compact and offers a high resolution. An upper magnetic pole and a sample-side magnetic pole are magnetically coupled to the respective poles of a permanent magnet that is made of a highly strong magnetic material such as a rare-earth cobalt system or a neodymium-iron-boron system, that is axially symmetrical, and that has a hole in the center thereof. An inner gap is created on the side of a center axis. Thus, a magnetic lens is formed axially. Moreover, a semi-stationary magnetic path that shields an outside magnetic field and has the magnetic reluctance thereof regulated is disposed outside. The sample-side magnetic pole and magnetic path defines a region where magnetic reluctance is the highest outside the permanent magnet. A space defined by the permanent magnet, upper magnetic pole, sample-die magnetic pole, and semi-stationary magnetic path is filled with a filling made of a non-magnetic material. Thus, an objective lens is constructed.