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公开(公告)号:US20240242922A1
公开(公告)日:2024-07-18
申请号:US18493961
申请日:2023-10-25
Applicant: NuFlare Technology, Inc.
Inventor: Hirofumi MORITA , Haruyuki NOMURA
IPC: H01J37/153 , H01J37/04 , H01J37/09 , H01J37/145 , H01J37/317
CPC classification number: H01J37/153 , H01J37/045 , H01J37/09 , H01J37/145 , H01J37/3174 , H01J2237/04735 , H01J2237/31754 , H01J2237/31774
Abstract: In one embodiment, 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 multi charged particle beam on a substrate, which has passed through the limiting aperture member, three or more correction lenses correcting an imaging state of the multi charged particle beam on the substrate, and an electric field control electrode to which a positive constant voltage with respect to the substrate is applied, the electric field control electrode generating an electric field between the substrate and the electric field control electrode. The two or more-stage objective lenses include a first objective lens, and a second objective lens placed most downstream in a travel direction of the multi charged particle beam. The three or more correction lenses are placed upstream of a lens magnetic field of the second objective lens in the travel direction of the multi charged particle beam.
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公开(公告)号:USRE49952E1
公开(公告)日:2024-04-30
申请号:US16838976
申请日:2020-04-02
Applicant: ASML Netherlands B.V.
Inventor: Vincent Sylvester Kuiper , Erwin Slot
IPC: H01J37/317 , H01J37/09 , H01J37/30
CPC classification number: H01J37/3177 , H01J37/09 , H01J37/3007 , H01J2237/0435 , H01J2237/0453 , H01J2237/3175 , H01J2237/31774
Abstract: A sub-beam aperture array for forming a plurality of sub-beams from one or more charged particle beams. The sub-beam aperture array comprises one or more beam areas, each beam area comprising a plurality of sub-beam apertures arranged in a non-regular hexagonal pattern, the sub-beam apertures arranged so that, when projected in a first direction onto a line parallel to a second direction, the sub-beam apertures are uniformly spaced along the line, and wherein the first direction is different from the second direction. The system further comprises a beamlet aperture array with a plurality of beamlet apertures arranged in one or more groups. The beamlet aperture array is arranged to receive the sub-beams and form a plurality of beamlets at the locations of the beamlet apertures of the beamlet array.
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公开(公告)号:US20240085171A1
公开(公告)日:2024-03-14
申请号:US18367208
申请日:2023-09-12
Applicant: Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH
Inventor: David Laemmle , Michael Budach , Jan Guentner , Frans-Felix Schotsch
CPC classification number: G01B11/0608 , H01J37/09 , H01J2237/24592
Abstract: The present application relates to a method for characterizing a shielding element of a particle beam device for shielding an electric field between a sample position and a particle beam source. The method comprises positioning a means for characterizing the shielding element on a side of the shielding element which is facing the sample position.
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公开(公告)号:US11894213B2
公开(公告)日:2024-02-06
申请号:US17252997
申请日:2018-06-22
Applicant: Hitachi High-Tech Corporation
Inventor: Asako Kaneko , Hisayuki Takasu
IPC: H01J37/20 , H01J37/08 , H01J37/09 , H01J37/147 , H01J37/305
CPC classification number: H01J37/20 , H01J37/08 , H01J37/09 , H01J37/1478 , H01J37/3053 , H01J2237/002 , H01J2237/1502 , H01J2237/20214
Abstract: An ion milling device capable of high-speed milling is realized even for a specimen containing a material having an imide bond. Therefore, the ion milling device includes: a vacuum chamber 6 configured to hold a specimen 3 in a vacuum atmosphere; an ion gun 1 configured to irradiate the specimen with a non-focused ion beam 2; a vaporization container 17 configured to store a mixed solution 13 of a water-soluble ionic liquid and water; and nozzles 11, 12 configured to supply water vapor obtained by vaporizing the mixed solution to a vicinity of a surface of the specimen processed by the ion beam.
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公开(公告)号:USRE49732E1
公开(公告)日:2023-11-21
申请号:US16427228
申请日:2019-05-30
Applicant: ASML Netherlands B.V.
Inventor: Paul IJmert Scheffers , Jan Andries Meijer , Erwin Slot , Vincent Sylvester Kuiper , Niels Vergeer
CPC classification number: H01J37/3045 , B82Y10/00 , B82Y40/00 , G03F7/707 , H01J2237/1502
Abstract: A multi-beamlet charged particle beamlet lithography system for transferring a pattern to a surface of a substrate. The system comprises a projection system (311) for projecting a plurality of charged particle beamlets (7) onto the surface of the substrate; a chuck (313) moveable with respect to the projection system; a beamlet measurement sensor (i.a. i.e., 505, 511) for determining one or more characteristics of one or more of the charged particle beamlets, the beamlet measurement sensor having a surface (501) for receiving one or more of the charged particle beamlets; and a position mark measurement system for measuring a position of a position mark (610, 620, 635), the position mark measurement system comprising an alignment sensor (361, 362). The chuck comprises a substrate support portion for supporting the substrate, a beamlet measurement sensor portion (460) for accommodating the surface of the beamlet measurement sensor, and a position mark portion (470) for accommodating the position mark.
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公开(公告)号:US20230324318A1
公开(公告)日:2023-10-12
申请号:US18327847
申请日:2023-06-01
Applicant: ASML Netherlands B.V.
Inventor: Yan REN , Erwin SLOT , Albertus Victor, Gerardus MANGNUS , Marijke SCOTUZZI , Erwin Paul SMAKMAN
IPC: G01N23/2251 , H01J37/244 , H01J37/09 , H01J37/12 , H01J37/147
CPC classification number: G01N23/2251 , H01J37/244 , H01J37/09 , H01J37/12 , H01J37/1472 , G01N2223/303 , H01J2237/2448 , H01J2237/0453 , H01J37/20
Abstract: A charged-particle tool configured to generate a plurality of sub-beams from a beam of charged particles and direct the sub-beams downbeam toward a sample position, the tool charged-particle tool comprising at least three charged-particle-optical components; a detector module; and a controller. Thea detector module is configured to generate a detection signal in response to charged particles that propagate upbeam from the direction of the sample position. The controller is configured to operate the tool in a calibration mode. The charged-particle-optical components include: a charged-particle source configured to emit a beam of charged particles and a beam generator configured to generate the sub-beams. The detection signal contains information about alignment of at least two of the charged-particle-optical components. The charged-particle optical components comprise two or more charged-particle optical elements comprising an array of apertures for which the charged particles may be monitored.
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公开(公告)号:US20230245849A1
公开(公告)日:2023-08-03
申请号:US18123210
申请日:2023-03-17
Applicant: ASML Netherlands B.V.
Inventor: Marco Jan-Jaco WIELAND
IPC: H01J37/12 , G01N23/2251 , H01J37/09 , H01J37/147
CPC classification number: H01J37/12 , G01N23/2251 , H01J37/09 , H01J37/1474 , G01N2223/3301 , H01J2237/0453 , H01J2237/04924 , H01J2237/12
Abstract: Arrangements involving objective lens array assemblies for charged-particle assessment tools are disclosed. In one arrangement, the assembly comprises an objective lens array and a control lens array. Each objective lens projects a respective sub-beam of a multi-beam onto a sample. The control lens array is associated with the objective lens array and positioned up-beam of the objective lens array. The control lenses pre-focus the sub-beams.
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公开(公告)号:US20230065475A1
公开(公告)日:2023-03-02
申请号:US17983220
申请日:2022-11-08
Applicant: Carl Zeiss MultiSEM GmbH
Inventor: Dirk Zeidler , Hans Fritz , Ingo Mueller
IPC: H01J37/09 , H01J37/28 , H01J37/21 , H01J37/14 , H01J37/147 , H01J37/153 , H01J37/073
Abstract: A particle beam system includes a multi-source system. The multi-source system comprises an electron emitter array as a particle multi-source. The inhomogeneous emission characteristics of the various emitters in this multi-source system are correctable, or pre-correctable for subsequent particle-optical imaging, via particle-optical components that are producible via MEMS technology. A beam current of the individual particle beams is adjustable in the multi-source system.
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公开(公告)号:US11574793B2
公开(公告)日:2023-02-07
申请号:US16879919
申请日:2020-05-21
Applicant: NuFlare Technology, Inc.
Inventor: Kazuhiko Inoue , Munehiro Ogasawara
IPC: H01J37/153 , H01J37/09 , H01J37/141
Abstract: Aberration corrector includes a lower electrode substrate to be formed therein with plural first passage holes having a first hole diameter and making multiple electron beams pass therethrough, and to be arranged thereon plural electrode sets each being plural electrodes of four or more poles, surrounding a first passage hole, for each of the plural first passage holes, and an upper electrode substrate above the lower one, to be formed therein with plural second passage holes making multiple electron beams pass therethrough, whose size from the top of the upper electrode substrate to the middle of way to the back side of the upper electrode substrate is a second hole diameter, and whose size from the middle to the back side is a third hole diameter larger than each of the first and second hole diameters, wherein a shield electrode is on inner walls of plural second passage holes.
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公开(公告)号:US11551907B2
公开(公告)日:2023-01-10
申请号:US17263017
申请日:2019-07-26
Applicant: RIKEN , UNIVERSITY PUBLIC CORPORATION OSAKA
Inventor: Ken Harada , Keiko Shimada , Shigeo Mori , Atsuhiro Kotani
IPC: H01J37/26 , G01N23/201 , H01J37/09 , H01J37/10 , H01J37/147 , H01J37/20 , H01J37/22
Abstract: An observation apparatus and method that avoids drawbacks of a Lorentz method and observes a weak scatterer or a phase object with in-focus, high resolution, and no azimuth dependency, by a Foucault method observation using a hollow-cone illumination that orbits and illuminates an incident electron beam having a predetermined inclination angle, an electron wave is converged at a position (height) of an aperture plate downstream of a sample, and a bright field condition in which a direct transmitted electron wave of the sample passes through the aperture plate, a dark field condition in which the transmitted electron wave is shielded, and a Schlieren condition in which approximately half of the transmitted wave is shielded as a boundary condition of both of the above conditions are controlled, and a spatial resolution of the observation image is controlled by selecting multiple diameters and shapes of the opening of the aperture plate.
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