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US 7,923,701 B2Granted
Charged particle beam equipment
AssigneeHitachi High-Technologies Corporation
InventorsHiromi Inada, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Shun-ichi Watanabe, Shigeto Isakozawa, Mitsugu Sato, Atsushi Takane, Satoshi Yamaguchi
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Abstract
Charged particle beam equipment has a processing unit for calibrating dimension values of an enlarged specimen image, and means for changing the amount by which a charged particle beam is scanned. Also, a specimen stand has a mechanism for holding a specimen having a periodical structure or a specimen simultaneously having a periodical structure and a non-periodical structure, and a storage device for automatically changing a magnification for an enlarged specimen image, and storing measured values at all magnifications.
Claims14
Charged particle beam equipment comprising:
- a charged particle beam source for generating a charged particle beam;
- a specimen stand for holding a specimen having a non-periodic structure;
- a lens system for converging the charged particle beam onto the specimen;
- a scanner for scanning the charged particle beam on the specimen;
- a deflector for deflecting the charged particle beam;
- a detector for detecting specimen signal generated from the specimen by irradiation of the charged particle beam;
- an image processor for carrying out image calculation;
- a display for displaying the specimen image;
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- a controller comprising a computer readable medium containing instructions that, when executed, cause the charged particle beam equipment to perform operations including:
- calculating a magnification error of a first magnification by extracting periodic dimension by the image processor out of an enlarged image of a specimen having known periodical structure recorded at the first magnification;
- recording the enlarged image of the specimen having non-periodic structure as a reference image at the first magnification of which magnification error is corrected;
- recording the enlarged image of the specimen having non-periodic structure as an evaluation image after visual field is moved by controlling the deflector;
- obtaining ratio between control amount of the deflector and visual field moving amount out of visual field moving amount of the evaluation image corresponding to the reference image measured by the image processor;
- setting magnification into a second magnification different from the first magnification;
- obtaining visual field moving amount of enlarged image of a non-periodical structure specimen before and after the visual field movement by controlling the deflector in the second magnification;
- carrying out correction of magnification of the second magnification from the ratio between visual field moving amount at the second magnification and visual field movement amount at the first magnification of which magnification error is corrected;
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- using specimen of which periodical structure is artificially formed as a specimen including a known periodical structure.
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Charged particle beam equipment comprising:
- a charged particle beam source for generating a charged particle beam;
- a specimen stand for holding a specimen;
- a lens system for converging the charged particle beam onto the specimen;
- a scanner for scanning the charged particle beam on the specimen;
- a deflector for deflecting the charged particle beam;
- a detector for detecting specimen signal generated from the specimen by irradiation of the charged particle beam;
- an image processor for carrying out image calculation;
- a display for displaying the specimen image;
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- a controller comprising a computer readable medium containing instructions that, when executed, cause the charged particle beam equipment to perform operations including:
- rendering a magnification error of a first magnification calculated by extracting periodic dimension by the image processor out of an enlarged image of the specimen having known periodic structure recorded of the first magnification and an enlarged image of a specimen having non-periodical structure recorded by the first magnification as a reference image;
- rendering enlarged image of the specimen having the non-periodic structure recorded at the first magnification by moving the visual field by way of controlling the specimen stand as an evaluation image;
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- using visual field moving amount measured by the image processor out of the reference image and the evaluation image, for calculating ratio between control amount of the specimen table and visual field moving amount at a same precision as in dimensional precision of the specimen having known periodic structure.
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Charged particle beam equipment comprising:
- a charged particle beam source for generating a charged particle beam;
- a specimen stand for holding a specimen having a non-periodic structure;
- a lens system for converging the charged particle beam onto the specimen;
- a scanner for scanning the charged particle beam on the specimen;
- a deflector for deflecting the charged particle beam;
- a detector for detecting specimen signal generated from the specimen by irradiation of the charged particle beam;
- an image processor for carrying out image calculation;
- a display for displaying the specimen image;
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- a controller comprising a computer readable medium containing instructions that, when executed, cause the charged particle beam equipment to perform operations including:
- calculating a magnification error of a first magnification by extracting periodic dimension by the image processor out of an enlarged image of a specimen having known periodical structure recorded at the first magnification;
- recording an enlarged image of the specimen having non-periodic structure as a reference image at the first magnification of which magnification error is corrected;
- recording an enlarged image of the specimen having non-periodic structure as an evaluation image after visual field is moved by controlling the specimen table;
- obtaining ratio between control amount of the deflector and visual field moving amount out of visual field moving amount of the evaluation image corresponding to the reference image measured by the image processor;
- setting magnification into a second magnification different from the first magnification;
- obtaining visual field moving amount of enlarged image of a non-periodical structure specimen before and after the visual field movement by controlling the specimen table in the second magnification;
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- carrying out correction of magnification of the second magnification from the ratio between visual field moving amount at the second magnification and visual field movement amount at the first magnification of which magnification error is corrected.
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Charged particle beam equipment comprising:
- a charged particle beam source for generating a charged particle beam;
- a specimen stand for holding a specimen;
- a lens system for converging the charged particle beam onto the specimen;
- a scanner for scanning the charged particle beam on the specimen;
- a deflector for deflecting the charged particle beam;
- a detector for detecting specimen signal generated from the specimen by irradiation of the charged particle beam;
- an image processor for carrying out image calculation;
- a display for displaying the specimen image;
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- a controller comprising a computer readable medium containing instructions that, when executed, cause the charged particle beam equipment to perform operations including:
- loading a specimen having known periodic structure and non-periodic structure for magnification error measurement on the specimen table other than the specimen for observing;
- calculating a magnification error of a first magnification by extracting periodic dimension by the image processor out of an enlarged image of the specimen having known periodical structure recorded at the first magnification;
- recording an enlarged image of the specimen having non-periodic structure as a reference image at the first magnification of which magnification error is corrected;
- recording the enlarged image of the specimen having non-periodic structure as an evaluation image after visual field is moved by controlling the deflector;
- obtaining ratio between control amount of the deflector and visual field moving amount out of visual field moving amount of the evaluation image corresponding to the reference image measured by the image processor;
- setting magnification into a second magnification different from the first magnification;
- obtaining visual field moving amount of enlarged image of a non-periodical structure specimen before and after the visual field movement by controlling the deflector in the second magnification;
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- carrying out correction of magnification of the second magnification from the ratio between visual field moving amount at the second magnification and visual field movement amount at the first magnification of which magnification error is corrected.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.