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公开(公告)号:US12087543B2
公开(公告)日:2024-09-10
申请号:US18048414
申请日:2022-10-20
Applicant: NuFlare Technology, Inc.
Inventor: Hiroshi Matsumoto
IPC: H01J37/317 , G03F7/00 , H01J37/141 , H01J37/24 , H01J37/302 , H01L21/027
CPC classification number: H01J37/3177 , G03F7/70016 , H01J37/141 , H01J37/24 , H01J37/3023 , H01L21/0277 , H01J2237/14 , H01J2237/30472 , H01J2237/31754 , H01J2237/31762 , H01J2237/31774
Abstract: A multi-charged particle beam writing apparatus according to one aspect of the present invention includes a region setting unit configured to set, as an irradiation region for a beam array to be used, the region of the central portion of an irradiation region for all of multiple beams of charged particle beams implemented to be emittable by a multiple beam irradiation mechanism, and a writing mechanism, including the multiple beam irradiation mechanism, configured to write a pattern on a target object with the beam array in the region of the central portion having been set in the multiple beams implemented.
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公开(公告)号:US20240242933A1
公开(公告)日:2024-07-18
申请号:US18509474
申请日:2023-11-15
Applicant: NuFlare Technology, Inc.
Inventor: Hirofumi MORITA , Haruyuki NOMURA
IPC: H01J37/317 , H01J37/04 , H01J37/141 , H01J37/145
CPC classification number: H01J37/3177 , H01J37/045 , H01J37/141 , H01J37/145
Abstract: A multi charged particle beam writing apparatus includes two or more-stage objective lenses each comprised of a magnetic lens, and configured to focus the beam on a substrate, n (n≥3) correction lenses correcting an imaging state of the multi charged particle beam, and an electric field control electrode to which a positive constant voltage with respect to the substrate is applied. The electric field control electrode generates an electric field between the substrate and the electrode. The objective lenses include a first objective lens, and a second objective lens placed most downstream in a travel direction of the beam. m (n≥m≥1) correction lenses of the n correction lenses are magnetic correction lenses placed in a lens magnetic field of the second objective lens. (n−m) correction lenses are placed upstream of the lens magnetic field of the second objective lens in the travel direction.
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公开(公告)号:US20240194442A1
公开(公告)日:2024-06-13
申请号:US18065438
申请日:2022-12-13
Applicant: FEI Company
Inventor: Branislav Straka , Jan Lásko , Libor Novák , Vojtêch Mahel , Radek Smolka , Petr Glajc
IPC: H01J37/28 , H01J37/141 , H01J37/244 , H01J37/26
CPC classification number: H01J37/28 , H01J37/141 , H01J37/244 , H01J37/265 , H01J2237/24475
Abstract: Charged particle microscopy systems, sensors, and techniques are provided. A charged particle sensor can include a housing, configured to be incorporated into a scanning electron microscope (SEM). The charged particle sensor can include a detector cell, mechanically coupled with the housing. The detector cell can include an acceptor layer including a semiconducting material characterized by a bandgap equal to or greater than about 2.0 eV. The acceptor layer can define a first surface and a second surface opposing the first surface. The detector cell can include a first conducting layer disposed on the first surface, a second conducting layer disposed on the second surface, a first contact, electrically coupled with the first conducting layer, and a second contact, electrically coupled with the second conducting layer.
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公开(公告)号:US20240120171A1
公开(公告)日:2024-04-11
申请号:US18483392
申请日:2023-10-09
Applicant: FEI Company
Inventor: Casper Smit , Corne van Rooij , Maarten Bischoff , Jamie Mc Cormack , Marcel Veerhoek , Joost Dierkse
IPC: H01J37/24 , H01J37/141
CPC classification number: H01J37/241 , H01J37/141 , H01J2237/002 , H01J2237/2802
Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for reducing the power consumption of a charged particle system, the charged particle system comprising at least one charged particle optics element and a cooling assembly configured for cooling the at least one charged particle optics element, the method comprising the steps of running the charged particle system in a standby mode, wherein the total power consumption of the charged particle system is reduced compared to running the charged particle system in an operating mode. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a respective charged particle system.
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公开(公告)号:US20240112878A1
公开(公告)日:2024-04-04
申请号:US17957171
申请日:2022-09-30
Applicant: FEI COMPANY
Inventor: Pleun Dona , Johannes A.H.W.G. Persoon , Hugo Cornelis Van Leeuwen , Peter Tiemeijer
IPC: H01J37/18 , H01J37/141 , H01J37/20
CPC classification number: H01J37/18 , H01J37/141 , H01J37/20
Abstract: A charged particle microscope for imaging a specimen. The charged particle microscope includes a specimen holder movable into an imaging position intersecting an optical axis, a specimen chamber configured to receive the specimen holder in the imaging position, and a sorption pump disposed in the specimen chamber and configured to lower a pressure in the specimen chamber.
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公开(公告)号:US11837431B2
公开(公告)日:2023-12-05
申请号:US16018008
申请日:2018-06-25
Applicant: Hermes Microvision, Inc.
Inventor: Shuai Li , Zhongwei Chen
IPC: H01J37/147 , H01J37/145 , H01J37/28 , H01J37/141
CPC classification number: H01J37/145 , H01J37/141 , H01J37/1472 , H01J37/1474 , H01J37/1477
Abstract: The device includes a beam source for generating an electron beam, a beam guiding tube passed through an objective lens, an objective lens for generating a magnetic field in the vicinity of the specimen to focus the particles of the particle beam on the specimen, a control electrode having a potential for providing a retarding field to the particle beam near the specimen to reduce the energy of the particle beam when the beam collides with the specimen, a deflection system including a plurality of deflection units situated along the optical axis for deflecting the particle beam to allow scanning on the specimen with large area, at least one of the deflection units located in the retarding field of the beam, the remainder of the deflection units located within the central bore of the objective lens, and a detection unit to capture secondary electron (SE) and backscattered electrons (BSE).
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公开(公告)号:US20230335368A1
公开(公告)日:2023-10-19
申请号:US18170142
申请日:2023-02-16
Applicant: NuFlare Technology, Inc.
Inventor: Munehiro OGASAWARA , Atsushi ANDO , Kazuhiko INOUE
IPC: H01J37/141 , H01J37/147 , H01J37/065
CPC classification number: H01J37/141 , H01J37/1475 , H01J37/065
Abstract: An electromagnetic lens includes a coil, and a pole piece configured to include an upper wall, a lower wall, an outer peripheral wall and an inner peripheral wall which are formed using a conductive magnetic material, to surround the coil by the upper wall, the lower wall, the outer peripheral wall and the inner peripheral wall, one of opposite facing surfaces of an upper part and a lower part of the inner peripheral wall and opposite facing surfaces of the upper wall and the inner peripheral wall being insulated electrically, the outer peripheral wall including a laminated structure where a magnetic material and an insulator are alternately laminated in a direction of a central axis of a trajectory of a passing electron beam, and to be covered at least the laminated structure of the outer peripheral wall with an insulator.
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公开(公告)号:US11764028B2
公开(公告)日:2023-09-19
申请号:US17056993
申请日:2018-05-22
Applicant: Hitachi High-Tech Corporation
Inventor: Yuta Imai , Masahiro Sasajima , Yoshihiro Takahoko
IPC: H01J37/14 , H01J37/15 , H01J37/21 , H01J37/28 , H01J37/145 , H01J37/12 , H01J37/141
CPC classification number: H01J37/145 , H01J37/15 , H01J37/21 , H01J37/12 , H01J37/141 , H01J37/28
Abstract: A charged particle beam device is provided in which axis adjustment as a superimposing lens is facilitated by aligning an axis of an electrostatic lens resulting from a deceleration electric field with an axis of a magnetic field lens. The charged particle beam device includes: an electron source; an objective lens that focuses a probe electron beam from the electron source on a sample; a first beam tube and a second beam tube through each of which the probe electron beam passes; a deceleration electrode arranged between the first beam tube and a sample; a first voltage source that forms a deceleration electric field for the probe electron beam between the first beam tube and the deceleration electrode by applying a first potential to the first beam tube; and a first moving mechanism that moves a position of the first beam tube.
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公开(公告)号:US20230230796A1
公开(公告)日:2023-07-20
申请号:US18009898
申请日:2020-07-03
Applicant: Hitachi High-Tech Corporation
Inventor: Tomohito NAKANO , Makoto SUZUKI , Yuzuru MIZUHARA , Ryota WATANABE
IPC: H01J37/141 , H01J37/28 , H01J37/21 , H01J37/153
CPC classification number: H01J37/141 , H01J37/28 , H01J37/21 , H01J37/153 , H01J2237/216
Abstract: This charged particle beam device comprises: a charged particle beam source that generates charged particle beams; an objective lens in which coil current is inputted to focus the charged particle beams on a sample; a control unit that controls the coil current; a hysteresis characteristics storage unit that stores hysteresis characteristics information of the objective lens; a history information storage unit that stores history information relating to the coil current; and an estimating unit that estimates the magnetic field generated by the objective lens based on the coil current, the history information, and the hysteresis characteristic information, and has a magnetic field correction unit that, when the absolute value of the change amount of the coil current is greater than a prescribed value, further adds to the magnetic field estimated by the estimating unit a correction value according to the coil current and its change amount, correcting the magnetic field generated by the objective lens.
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公开(公告)号:US10008360B2
公开(公告)日:2018-06-26
申请号:US15007873
申请日:2016-01-27
Applicant: Hermes-Microvision, Inc.
Inventor: Shuai Li , Zhongwei Chen
IPC: H01J37/14 , H01J37/145 , H01J37/147 , H01J37/141
CPC classification number: H01J37/145 , H01J37/141 , H01J37/1472 , H01J37/1474 , H01J37/1477
Abstract: The device includes a beam source for generating an electron beam, a beam guiding tube passed through an objective lens, an objective lens for generating a magnetic field in the vicinity of the specimen to focus the particles of the particle beam on the specimen, a control electrode having a potential for providing a retarding field to the particle beam near the specimen to reduce the energy of the particle beam when the beam collides with the specimen, a deflection system including a plurality of deflection units situated along the optical axis for deflecting the particle beam to allow scanning on the specimen with large area, at least one of the deflection units located in the retarding field of the beam, the remainder of the deflection units located within the central bore of the objective lens, and a detection unit to capture secondary electron (SE) and backscattered electrons (BSE).
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