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AssigneesNikon Corporation, Ebara Corporation
InventorErika Kanematsu
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The illuminating beam 4 emitted from the cathode 1 is incident on a deflector 3. In a state in which a voltage is applied to the deflector 3, the optical path of the illuminating beam 4 is altered by the deflector 3; the illuminating beam 4 then passes through a common electron optical system 7, and illuminates the surface of the sample 6. In cases where no voltage is applied to the deflector 3, the illuminating beam 4 passes directly through the deflector 3, and is absorbed by an electron absorbing plate 17. The illuminating beam 4 is attenuated when it passes through the common electron optical system 7, so that the energy of this beam 4 is close to 0 [eV] at the point in time at which the beam 4 reaches the surface of the sample 6. When the illuminating beam 4 is incident on the sample 6, reflected electrons 8 are generated from the sample 6. These reflected electrons 8 pass through the common electron optical system 7, and in a case where no voltage is applied to the deflector 3, these reflected electrons 8 pass through the image focusing electron optical system 9, so that the electrons are projected onto an MCP detector 10.
A projection electron microscope which causes an illuminating electron beam emitted from an electron source to be incident on a sample surface via an illumination electron optical system, and which causes electrons emitted from this sample surface to be focused as an observation electron beam on a detection means via an image focusing electron optical system wherein this projection electron microscope has an optical path switching means which switches the direction of the illuminating electron beam or observation electron beam, and the optical path switching means has the function of switching the direction of the respective electron beams so that the illuminating electron beam is incident on the sample surface at a specified timing, and so that the observation electron beam reaches the detection means at a different specified timing.
A projection electron microscope which causes an illuminating electron beam emitted from an electron source to be incident on a sample surface via an illumination electron optical system, and which causes electrons emitted from this sample surface to be focused as an observation electron beam on a detection means via an image focusing electron optical system, wherein the observation electron beam consists of reflected electrons having an energy equal to that of the illuminating electron beam, the illumination electron optical system consists of an illumination dedicated electron optical system disposed between the electron source and the above mentioned optical path switching means, and an electron optical system disposed between the optical path switching means and the sample surface, the image focusing electron optical system consists of an image focusing dedicated electron optical system disposed between the detection means and the optical path switching means, and the electron optical system described above, and this electron optical system shares some of the functions of the illumination electron optical system and the image focusing electron optical system.
An electron microscope comprising an electron source which causes an illuminating electron beam to be incident on a sample surface, a detector which detects electrons emitted from the sample surface as an observation electron beam, and an optical path switching means which causes the illuminating electron beam to be incident on the sample surface at a specified timing, and which causes the observation electron beam to reach the detector at a different specified timing.
A sample surface observation method for observing a sample surface, wherein an illuminating electron beam is emitted, this illuminating electron beam is caused to be incident on the sample surface at a specified timing, observation electrons emitted from the sample surface are caused to reach a detector at a timing that is different from the specified timing described above, and the observation electrons are detected by the detector, so that an image of the sample surface is acquired.
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