Abstract:
A method of using a direct electron detector in a TEM, in which an image with a high intensity peak, such as a diffractogram or an EELS spectrum, is imaged on said detector. As known the high intensity peak may damage the detector. To avoid this damage, the center of the image is moved, as a result of which not one position of the detector is exposed to the high intensity, but the high intensity is smeared over the detector, displacing the high intensity peak before damage results.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method of mass spectrometry, an apparatus adapted to perform the method and a mass spectrometer. More particularly, but not exclusively, the present invention relates to a method of mass spectrometry comprising the step of associating parent and fragmentation ions from a sample by measuring the parent and fragmentation ions from two or more different areas of the sample and identifying changes in the number of parent ions between the areas in the sample, and corresponding changes in the number of fragmentation ions between the two areas.
Abstract:
The present invention provides an electron spectroscopy apparatus (12) comprising a high energy particle source (12) for irradiating a sample, an electron detector system (16) (e.g. including a delay line detector) for detecting electrons emitted from the sample and an ion gun (8) for delivering a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) ion beam to the sample, wherein the ion gun comprises a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon ion source, for example comprising coronene. In an embodiment, the PAH is located in a heated chamber (22) and vaporised to produce gas phase PAH. The gas phase PAH molecules are then ionised by electron impact, extracted from the ion source via an extraction field and focussed using ion optics. The PAH ion beam can be used for surface cleaning and depth analysis.
Abstract:
A method of using a direct electron detector in a TEM, in which an image with a high intensity peak, such as a diffractogram or an EELS spectrum, is imaged on said detector. As known the high intensity peak may damage the detector. To avoid this damage, the centre of the image is moved, as a result of which not one position of the detector is exposed to the high intensity, but the high intensity is smeared over the detector, displacing the high intensity peak before damage results.
Abstract:
An ion implantation system comprising an ion source that generates an ion beam along a beam path, a mass analyzer component downstream of the ion source that performs mass analysis and angle correction on the ion beam, a resolving aperture electrode comprising at least one electrode downstream of the mass analyzer component and along the beam path having a size and shape according to a selected mass resolution and a beam envelope, a deflection element downstream of the resolving aperture electrode that changes the path of the ion beam exiting the deflection element, a deceleration electrode downstream of the deflection element that decelerates the ion beam, a support platform within an end station for retaining and positioning a workpiece which is implanted with charged ions, and wherein the end station is mounted approximately eight degrees counterclockwise so that the deflected ion beam is perpendicular to the workpiece.
Abstract:
An apparatus and method for partial ion implantation, which desirably provide control over the energy of the implanted dopants, generally includes an ion beam generator, and first and second deceleration units. The first deceleration unit decelerates the energy of an ion beam generated by the ion beam generator; and a subsequent, second deceleration unit further decelerates the energy into different energy levels according to regions of a wafer into which the ions are to be implanted.
Abstract:
The present invention provides an electron spectroscopy apparatus (12) comprising a high energy particle source (12) for irradiating a sample, an electron detector system (16) (e.g. including a delay line detector) for detecting electrons emitted from the sample and an ion gun (8) for delivering a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) ion beam to the sample, wherein the ion gun comprises a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon ion source, for example comprising coronene. In an embodiment, the PAH is located in a heated chamber (22) and vaporised to produce gas phase PAH. The gas phase PAH molecules are then ionised by electron impact, extracted from the ion source via an extraction field and focussed using ion optics. The PAH ion beam can be used for surface cleaning and depth analysis.
Abstract:
Techniques for commensurate cusp-field for effective ion beam neutralization are disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a charged particle injection system comprising a beamguide configured to transport an ion beam through a dipole field. The charged particle injection system may also comprise a first array of magnets and a second array of magnets configured to generate a multi-cusp magnetic field, positioned along at least a portion of an ion beam path, the first array of magnets being on a first side of the ion beam path and the second array of magnets being on a second side of the ion beam path. The charged particle injection system may further comprise a charged particle source having one or more apertures configured to inject charged particles into the ion beam path. The charged particle injection system may furthermore align the one or more apertures with at least one of the first array of magnets and the second array of magnets to align the injected charged particles from the charged particle source with one or more magnetic regions for an effective charged particle diffusion into the ion beam path.
Abstract:
An ion beam energy monitor system and method thereof. A physical field generator generates a physical field in a direction not parallel to an ion beam, refracting the ion beam, and a receiving device located on the path of the refracted ion beam receives the ion beam and calculates the energy thereof according to a collision distribution of ions of the ion beam. The output energy of the ion beam is thus being well adjusted.
Abstract:
A bio electron microscope and an observation method which can observe a bio specimen by low damage and high contrast to perform high-accuracy image analysis, and conduct high-throughput specimen preparation. 1) A specimen is observed at an accelerating voltage 1.2 to 4.2 times a critical electron accelerating voltage possible to transmit a specimen obtained under predetermined conditions. 2) An electron energy filter of small and simplified construction is provided between the specimen and an electron detector for imaging by the electron beam in a specified energy region of the electron beams transmitting the specimen. 3) Similarity between an observed image such as virus or protein in the specimen and a reference image such as known virus or protein is subjected to quantitative analysis by image processing. 4) A preparation protocol of the bio specimen is made into a chip using an MEMS technique, which is then mounted on a specimen stage part of an electron microscope to conduct specimen introduction, preparation and transfer onto a specimen holder.