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公开(公告)号:US10053768B2
公开(公告)日:2018-08-21
申请号:US14456946
申请日:2014-08-11
Applicant: FEI Company
Inventor: Corey Senowitz
IPC: C23C14/00 , C23C14/30 , G01N1/32 , H01J37/305
CPC classification number: C23C14/30 , G01N1/32 , H01J37/3056 , H01J2237/208 , H01J2237/304 , H01J2237/31745
Abstract: An improved method of preparing a TEM sample. A sample is extracted from a work piece and attached to a probe for transport to a sample holder. The sample is attached to the sample holder using charged particle beam deposition, and mechanically separated from probe by moving the probe and the sample holder relative to each other, without severing the connection using a charged particle beam.
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公开(公告)号:US10043274B2
公开(公告)日:2018-08-07
申请号:US14475313
申请日:2014-09-02
Applicant: FEI Company
Inventor: Trond Karsten Varslot , Andrew Maurice Kingston , Adrian Paul Sheppard , Mark Alexander Knackstedt , Robert Martin Sok , Shane Jamie Latham
IPC: G06T7/00 , G06T17/30 , E21B47/00 , G01N15/08 , G01N23/2251 , G01N33/24 , G01N23/046 , G06T7/30
CPC classification number: G06T7/32 , E21B47/0002 , G01N15/088 , G01N23/046 , G01N23/2251 , G01N33/241 , G01N2015/0846 , G01N2223/071 , G01N2223/401 , G01N2223/616 , G06T7/30 , G06T17/30 , G06T2207/10081 , G06T2207/20016 , G06T2207/30108 , G06T2207/30181
Abstract: A method for processing image data of a sample is disclosed. The method comprises registering a first and a second images of at least partially overlapping spatial regions of the sample and processing data from the registered images to obtain integrated image data comprising information about the sample, said information being additional to that available from said first and second images.
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公开(公告)号:US20180218875A1
公开(公告)日:2018-08-02
申请号:US15884332
申请日:2018-01-30
Applicant: FEI Company
Inventor: Leon van Kouwen , Gerard Nicolaas Anne van Veen
IPC: H01J37/08 , H01J37/26 , H01J37/147
CPC classification number: H01J37/08 , H01J37/147 , H01J37/261 , H01J37/28 , H01J2237/082 , H01J2237/0822 , H01J2237/0827 , H01J2237/31745 , H01J2237/31749
Abstract: A source assembly for ion beam production is disclosed herein. An example source assembly may include a pair of plates separated by a distance, with each plate having an aperture, and the respective apertures aligned, and an ionization space defined at least by the distance and the respective apertures, where a ratio of the distance to an ionic mean free path of a gas in the ionization space is greater than one.
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公开(公告)号:US20180180670A1
公开(公告)日:2018-06-28
申请号:US15390096
申请日:2016-12-23
Applicant: FEI Company
Inventor: Euan Ramsay , Theodore R. Lundquist
IPC: G01R31/308 , G01R1/07 , G01J5/00
Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer readable media to improve the operation of thermographic imaging systems are described. Techniques are disclosed for generating thermograms using single low-noise photon detectors. More particularly, an array of single low-noise photon detectors operating in the Geiger mode may be used to accurately identify the time delay between the application of a periodic power stimulus to a device under test and the generation of photons resulting from that stimulus. In one embodiment an array of single photon detectors may be used to time-tag each detected photon. Thereafter, a high-speed counting circuit can correlate the detected photons to the applied stimulus. When operating at the frequencies possible in the Geiger mode, such measurements permit a higher degree of spatial resolution (e.g., in the x, y and z axes) of thermal hot-spots within the device under test than prior art approaches.
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公开(公告)号:US09984852B1
公开(公告)日:2018-05-29
申请号:US15364145
申请日:2016-11-29
Applicant: FEI Company
Inventor: Otger Jan Luiten , Petrus Henricus Antonius Mutsaers , Jasper Frans Mathijs van Rens , Wouter Verhoeven , Erik René Kieft
CPC classification number: H01J37/26 , H01J37/05 , H01J37/20 , H01J37/244 , H01J2237/0437 , H01J2237/2442 , H01J2237/24485 , H01J2237/2449 , H01J2237/2626 , H01J2237/2802
Abstract: An apparatus for performing charged particle spectroscopy, comprising: A source, for producing a pulsed beam of charged particles that propagate along a beam path; A specimen holder, for holding a specimen at an irradiation position in said beam path; A detector arrangement, for performing energy-differentiated detection of charged particles that traverse said specimen, wherein, between said source and said detector arrangement, said beam path successively traverses: An energizing cavity, for applying a time-dependent accelerating field to said beam; A primary drift space; Said irradiation position; A temporal focusing cavity, for converting an energy differential in said beam into a time-of-flight differential; A secondary drift space.
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公开(公告)号:US09978561B2
公开(公告)日:2018-05-22
申请号:US15230667
申请日:2016-08-08
Applicant: FEI Company
Inventor: Alexander Henstra , Peter Christiaan Tiemeijer
CPC classification number: H01J37/28 , H01J37/05 , H01J37/14 , H01J37/22 , H01J37/263 , H01J2237/057 , H01J2237/1534 , H01J2237/2802
Abstract: The invention relates to a post-column filter (a PCF) for a (Scanning) Transmission Electron Microscope (a (S)TEM). Traditionally these filters use excitations of the optical elements before the slit plane that are identical in both the EFTEM and the EELS mode. Although this eases the task for the person skilled in the art of developing and tuning a PCF, as it reduces the number of degrees of freedom to a manageable amount. Inventors found ways to determine settings of the optical elements before the slit plane for EELS mode that are different from the EFTEM mode and where the performance of the PCF in EELS mode is improved (especially the relative energy range that can be imaged) without degrading the performance of the PCF in EFTEM mode.
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公开(公告)号:US09978557B2
公开(公告)日:2018-05-22
申请号:US15135205
申请日:2016-04-21
Applicant: FEI Company
Inventor: John Francis Flanagan, IV
CPC classification number: H01J37/20 , H01J37/261 , H01J37/265 , H01J2237/1501 , H01J2237/202 , H01J2237/2826
Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for aligning a sample in a charged particle beam system. The charged particle beam is directed toward the sample to obtain a sample diffraction pattern. The sample diffraction pattern is compared with reference diffraction patterns having known misalignments to determine which reference pattern most closely matches the sample pattern. The known alignment of the best-matching reference diffraction pattern is used to correct the tilt of the sample. The “patterns” compared can be lists of bright spots with corresponding intensities rather than images.
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公开(公告)号:US09908778B2
公开(公告)日:2018-03-06
申请号:US14560919
申请日:2014-12-04
Inventor: Bart Buijsse , Radostin Stoyanov Danev , Kasim Sader
CPC classification number: C01B32/20 , H01J37/20 , H01J37/22 , H01J37/26 , H01J37/31 , H01J2237/3114
Abstract: A freestanding thin film of nano-crystalline graphite is described, as well as a method of producing a freestanding thin film of nano-crystalline graphite including: providing a freestanding thin film of amorphous carbon, heating the freestanding thin film to a high temperature in an inert atmosphere or in a vacuum; and allowing the freestanding thin film to cool down, as a result of which a freestanding thin film of nano-crystalline graphite is formed. The films can be used, for example, as phase plates in a Transmission Electron Microscope.
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公开(公告)号:US09899181B1
公开(公告)日:2018-02-20
申请号:US15405139
申请日:2017-01-12
Applicant: FEI Company
Inventor: Gregory A. Schwind , Aurelien Philippe Jean Maclou Botman , Sean Kellogg , Leon van Kouwen , Luigi Mele
CPC classification number: H01J27/20 , H01J27/205 , H01J37/08 , H01J37/26 , H01J2237/006 , H01J2237/061 , H01J2237/082
Abstract: A collision ionization ion source comprising: A pair of stacked plates, sandwiched about an intervening gap; An input zone (aperture), provided in a first of said plates, to admit an input beam of charged particles to said gap; An output zone (aperture), located opposite said input zone and provided in the second of said plates, to allow emission of a flux of ions from said gap; A gas space, between said input and output zones, in which gas can be ionized by said input beam so as to produce said ions; A supply duct in said gap, for supplying a flow of said gas to said gas space, and comprising: An emergence orifice, opening into said gas space; An entrance orifice, connectable to a gas supply, wherein said duct comprises at least one transition region between said entrance orifice and said emergence orifice in which an inner height of said duct, measured normal to the plates, decreases from a first height value to a second height value.
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公开(公告)号:US20180033589A1
公开(公告)日:2018-02-01
申请号:US15224628
申请日:2016-07-31
Applicant: FEI Company
Inventor: Frederick H. Schamber , Cornelis van Beek , N. William Parker
IPC: H01J37/244 , H01J37/26 , H01J37/20 , G01N23/225 , H01J37/16 , H01J37/18
CPC classification number: H01J37/244 , G01N23/203 , G01N23/2252 , H01J37/16 , H01J37/18 , H01J37/20 , H01J37/26 , H01J2237/164 , H01J2237/2442 , H01J2237/24475 , H01J2237/2448 , H01J2237/24578 , H01J2237/2807
Abstract: An electron microscope including a vacuum chamber for containing a specimen to be analyzed, an optics column, including an electron source and a final probe forming lens, for focusing electrons emitted from the electron source, a specimen stage positioned in the vacuum chamber under the probe forming lens for holding the specimen, and multiple x-ray detectors positioned within the vacuum chamber, at different takeoff angles with respect to the sample's x-ray emission position in the chamber. Takeoff angles are provided to improve the counting efficiency of the various sensors. Multiple detectors of different types may be supported within the vacuum chamber on a mechanical support system, which may be adjustable. A method includes operating the sensors to optimize the time required for accurate x-ray counting by gathering data at the multiple takeoff angles.
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