Abstract:
The present invention relates to an electron gun for facilitating position adjustment, and an electron microscope including the same, the electron gun improving a vacuum structure so as to easily move a filament block or an electron tip of an electron gun without having bellows for maintaining a vacuum when the center axis of the filament block or the electron tip of the electron gun is mechanically misaligned with the center axis of a anode and a focusing lens.
Abstract:
A cold field emitter for emitting an electron beam for an electron beam device is described. The emitter includes an emitter tip having a tip surface; and two or more adjacent facets formed at the tip surface and having facet boundaries, each of the facets forming a recess in the emitter tip, wherein the facets are separated. An intermediate area is provided between and around the two or more adjacent facets and the intermediate area is configured for electron emission. Further, an electron beam device, a method for operating an electron beam device and a method for producing an emitter for an electron beam device is described.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a micro-electron column including nanostructure tips each of which has a tubular, columnar, or blocky structure ranging in size from several nanometers to dozens of nanometers. In the micro-electron column, the nanostructure tips can easily emit electrons because a high electric field is generated at the end of the nanostructure tips when a voltage is applied to the nanostructure tips, and an induction electrode is disposed between the electron emitter and a source lens so as to help electrons emitted from the electron emitter to enter an aperture of a first lens electrode layer of the source lens, thereby realizing improved performance of the micro-electron column. In the micro-electron column, the size of the nanostructure tips may be larger than that of the aperture of a source lens.
Abstract:
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a charged particle gun using merely an electrostatic lens, said charged particle gun being relatively small and having less aberration, and to provide a field emission-type charged particle gun having high luminance even with a high current. This charged particle gun has: a charged particle source; an acceleration electrode that accelerates charged particles emitted from the charged particle source; a control electrode, which is disposed further toward the charged particle source side than the acceleration electrode, and which has a larger aperture diameter than the aperture diameter of the acceleration electrode; and a control unit that controls, on the basis of a potential applied to the acceleration electrode, a potential to be applied to the control electrode.
Abstract:
A device and method for emitting electrons by a field effect. The device (10) includes a vacuum chamber (12) including a tip (14) having an end (18) and forming a cold cathode, an extracting anode (16), components adapted for generating a potential difference between the tip (14) and the anode (16); an electromagnetic wave source (22) outside the chamber (12); a system (24) for forwarding the electromagnetic wave emitted by the electromagnetic wave source from the outside to the inside of the chamber as far as the vicinity of the tip (14); a system (26) for focusing the electromagnetic wave, laid out inside the chamber (12); and a system (28) for aligning the electromagnetic wave outside the chamber and adapted for allowing alignment of the electromagnetic wave focused by the focusing system on the end of the tip.
Abstract:
A field-emission electron gun including an electron emission tip, an extractor anode, and a mechanism creating an electric-potential difference between the emission tip and the extractor anode. The emission tip includes a metal tip and an end cone produced by chemical vapor deposition on a nanofilament, the cone being aligned and welded onto the metal tip. The electron gun can be used for a transmission electron microscope.
Abstract:
An electron gun used in a particle beam device, for example in an electron microscope, has a relatively good brightness and may be operated under vacuum conditions which can be easily achieved (i.e., for example, at a residual pressure of about 10−6 or 10−7 mbar). The electron gun comprises an electron source having an electron emission surface. Furthermore, the electron gun comprises a first electrode configured to control a path of electrons emitted from the electron emission surface, a second electrode which is configured to suppress emissions of electrons from a side surface of the electron source and a third electrode configured to accelerate electrons emitted from the electron source to a final energy. A first voltage, a second voltage and a third voltage are adjusted to avoid any crossover of electrons emitted from the electron emission surface.
Abstract:
An electron microscope and method of operating an electron microscope (1) has an electron beam source (11) for producing an electron beam, a noise canceling aperture (12) for detecting a part of the beam, an amplifier (42), an effective value calculating circuit (44) for extracting DC components of the output signal from the amplifier (42), a detector (15) for detecting a signal obtained in response to impingement of the beam on a sample (A), a preamplifier circuit (20), an amplifier circuit (30), a dividing circuit (54) for performing a division based on the output signal from the amplifier circuit (30) and on the output signal from the amplifier (42), and a multiplier circuit (58) for performing multiplication of the output signal from the dividing circuit (54) and the output from the effective value calculating circuit (44).
Abstract:
A field-emission electron gun including an electron emission tip, an extractor anode, and a mechanism creating an electric-potential difference between the emission tip and the extractor anode. The emission tip includes a metal tip and an end cone produced by chemical vapor deposition on a nanofilament, the cone being aligned and welded onto the metal tip. The electron gun can be used for a transmission electron microscope.