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6194730 Electrostatic lens  
Electrostatic lens for focussing the beams of charged particles, more particularly of ions, which have electrodes being designed as an electric conductor with a ring-shaped section, the inner edge...
6191423 Correction device for correcting the spherical aberration in particle-optical apparatus  
Electron-optical rotationally symmetrical lenses inevitably suffer from spherical aberration which often imposes a limit on the resolution. This lens defect cannot be eliminated by compensation by...
6191419 Machined electrostatic sector for mass spectrometer  
An electrostatic sector device for a mass spectrometer is formed from a single piece of machinable ceramic. The machined ceramic is coated with a nickel coating, and a notch is etched in the nickel...
6184525 Environmental SEM with a multiple fields for improved secondary electron detection  
Amplification of the current of secondary electrons emanating from the specimen 14 is realized in an ESEM by avalanche-like ionization of the molecules 41 of the gas atmosphere. However, in order...
6184975 Electrostatic device for correcting chromatic aberration in a particle-optical apparatus  
Electron-optical rotationally symmetrical lenses inevitably suffer from chromatic aberration which often determines the resolution limit at low acceleration voltages. This lens defect cannot be...
6180947 Multi-element deflection aberration correction for electron beam lithography  
A method of optimizing locations of correction elements of a charged particle beam system determines respective corrector element currents to achieve optimum correction as a function of individual...
6163032 Tapered or tilted electrodes to allow the superposition of independently controllable DC field gradients to RF fields  
The present invention is embodied in a method and apparatus for transporting ions via a path generated by RF electrodes having a controllable DC field gradient generated thereon which does not...
6153885 Toroidal charged particle deflector with high mechanical stability and accuracy  
A semiconductor manufacturing tool for charged particle lithography systems such as an EBPS comprises a magnetic deflector with a hub comprising a cylinder mounted on flange. The hub has an opening...
6137246 Charge-exchange device  
A charge-exchange device is disclosed which is able to considerably reduce, without the use of foils, radio activation caused by a beam deflection angle and, which also implements a further...
6113851 Apparatus and process for dry sterilization of medical and dental devices and materials  
An apparatus and process for accomplishing low-temperature sterilization in a plasma generated using a variety of gas molecules. The plasma is generated using a hollow cathode discharge device of...
6107628 Method and apparatus for directing ions and other charged particles generated at near atmospheric pressures into a region under vacuum  
A method and apparatus for focusing dispersed charged particles. More specifically, a series of elements within a region maintained at a pressure between 10 -1 millibar and 1 bar, each having...
6107633 Electron beam lens  
An electron beam lens has a magnetic lens provided with first and second pole pieces for influencing an electron beam and forming a magnetic field between the two pole pieces. A third pole piece is...
6104029 Spectrometer and method of spectroscopy  
A spectrometer and method of spectroscopy are provided for surface analysis. The spectrometer comprises an energy analyser for analysing the energies of charged particles liberated from a sample, a...
6104034 Objective lens  
The invention relates to an objective lens for influencing a particle beam, particularly an electron beam with a magnetic single-pole lens and an electrostatic lens having a first and a second...
6077417 Silicon microlens cleaning system  
A method and system for cleaning the silicon microlenses in an electron-beam microcolumn in situ. The microlenses individually are heated by passing a current through each microlens. The current is...
6078054 Charged particle beam optical system  
Charged-particle-beam (CPB) optical systems are provided that reduce the required number of power supplies used to energize the constituent lenses and deflectors, while imparting no adverse effects...
6075249 Methods and apparatus for scanning and focusing an ion beam  
Methods and apparatus are provided for scanning and focusing a charged particle beam, such as an ion beam. The apparatus includes a charged particle source for generating a charged particle beam,...
6069363 Magnetic-electrostatic symmetric doublet projection lens  
Resolution of a symmetric magnetic doublet charged particle beam projection lens is improved by applying a non-uniform electrostatic field having the same symmetry conditions as the lens through...
6066855 Charged-particle-beam optical system exhibiting aberration correction  
Charged-particle-beam optical systems are disclosed that are usable in projection-exposure apparatus employing a charged particle beam for projecting an image of an object (e.g., region of a...
6066852 Electron energy filter  
6060715 Method and apparatus for ion beam scanning in an ion implanter  
An ion implanter for implanting ions in a target substrate is arranged to scan the ion beam at the point of extraction of the beam from the ion source. The ion beam extraction assembly includes a...
6055719 Method for manufacturing an electrostatic deflector  
The present invention relates to a charged particle beam exposure apparatus, deflecting a charged particle beam formed into a predetermined shape by being passed through a predetermined...
6051838 Optical unit  
An optical unit having an electrostatic lens for influencing a particle beam wherein the lens has at least one first and one second electrode downstream of one another in the direction of the...
6028317 Charged particle beam optical element charged particle beam exposure apparatus and method of adjusting the same  
An optical element includes two electrodes 1 and 2 arranged at a distance to oppose each other and configured to converge an electron beam. The opposing surfaces of the electrodes 1 and 2 are so...
6028662 Adjustment of particle beam landing angle  
The invention relates to a method and apparatus for measuring The landing angle of a particle beam is adjusted by scanning the beam over two cylindrical beam target surfaces that are positioned...
6025600 Method for astigmatism correction in charged particle beam systems  
A method for calculating and correcting an astigmatism error in a charged particle beam system. Images are collected during a single focus sweep of the charged particle beam system. Different...
6023067 Blanking system for electron beam projection system  
A charged particle beam projection system includes a source of charged particles and a first doublet of condenser lenses with a first symmetry plane through which the beam is directed, located...
6013913 Multi-pass reflectron time-of-flight mass spectrometer  
A novel design for a time-of-flight mass spectrometer capable of tandem mass spectrometry measurements with high resolution and high sensitivity using two variable reflectrons in a co-linear...
6008495 Electron beam exposure device  
An electron beam exposure device in which an electron beam from an electron beam source is passed through at least a slit of a first slit assembly. The first slit assembly includes: a base; a...
6005250 Illumination deflection system for E-beam projection  
An electron beam projection system comprises a source of an electron beam, a first doublet of condenser lenses with a first symmetry plane, a first aperture comprising a trim aperture located at...
5998795 Electron beam pattern-writing column  
An electron beam pattern-writing column comprises an emitter and an extractor (14, 15) for generating a low-energy electron beam (13), a series of three electrostatic triple element lenses (17, 18,...
5994695 Optical path devices for mass spectrometry  
An apparatus, system and method of fabricating the apparatus utilize a flexible substrate to provide structural integrity for the apparatus. The apparatus is an optical path device used in mass...
5986269 Correction device for correcting chromatic aberration in particle-optical apparatus  
Particle-optical rotationally symmetrical lenses inevitably have chromatic aberration. This lens fault determines the limit of the resolution of known particle-optical apparatus at a comparatively...
5965894 Method of operating a particle-optical apparatus  
Electron-optical, rotationally-symmetrical lenses inevitably exhibit spherical and chromatic aberration which usually determine the limit of the resolution. Such lens aberrations cannot be...
5952656 Energy filter  
There is disclosed an Ω-filter for use with an electron microscope. This filter has only one parameter that controls the exciting currents supplied to four magnets M 1 -M 4 . Only those electrons...
5947053 Wear-through detector for multilayered parts and methods of using same  
The present invention relates to wear-through detection in multilayered parts. This invention specifically encompasses, in one aspect, wear-through detection in semiconductor vacuum processing...
5949076 Charged beam applying apparatus  
A charged beam applying apparatus comprises a column at least having a charged beam generation section and optical system for controlling the charged beam and a chamber for holding a specimen in...
5945677 Focused ion beam system  
A focused ion beam (FIB) system produces a final beam spot size down to 0.1 μm or less and an ion beam output current on the order of microamps. The FIB system increases ion source brightness by...
5929452 Electrostatic deflecting electrode unit for use in charged beam lithography apparatus and method of manufacture the same  
A method of manufacturing an electrostatic deflecting electrode unit for use in charged beam lithography apparatus comprises a first step of preparing a hollow cylindrical member made of metal, a...
5920073 Optical system  
An optical system for a particle beam device such as an electron microscope, e-beam device or FIB device, including a particle beam column having an optical axis along which a beam of particles is...
5895917 Detector objective lens  
The invention relates to a detector objective lens and a charged particle am device with such a detector objective lens containing a main lens for focussing a charged particle beam on a specimen,...
5895919 Gun lens for generating a particle beam  
The invention relates to a gun lens for generating a particle beam with a cathode, an extraction electrode, an anode and a condenser lens, wherein a deceleration field is generated between the...
5888699 Pattern transfer method and transfer apparatus by charged particle beam  
Disclosed herein is a pattern transfer method wherein a beam transmitting portion which transmits a charged particle beam and a beam limiting portion which scatters or absorbs the charged particle...
5874739 Arrangement for shadow-casting lithography  
An arrangement for shadow-casting lithography by focusing electrically charged particles for the purpose of imaging structures of a mask on a substrate disposed immediately to the rear thereof,...
5872356 Spatially-resolved electrical deflection mass spectrometry  
A mass spectrometer is disclosed which yields fast, full-scan spectra over a wide mass-to-charge ratio range. The instrument contains an ion source which generates nearly monoenergetically-pulsed...
5869838 Field composable electrostatic lens system  
An electrostatic lens system consisting of several electrodes and a novel method of making same. The invention relates to a lithography apparatus that includes a field composable lens where at...
5850083 Charged particle beam lithograph apparatus  
A charged particle beam lithograph apparatus of the present invention projects a charged particle beam onto a sample through a mask and lithographs a mask pattern on the sample through the movement...
5843603 Method of evaluating shaped beam of charged beam writer and method of forming pattern  
A method of evaluating a shaped beam generated by a charged beam writer, comprises the steps of: a first step of shaping line beams by dividing into 1/n one side of the shaped beam having a...
5838120 Accelerator with closed electron drift  
The invention is related to a plasma technology field, in particular, to plasma accelerators, used in a space technology, in scientific researches and in industry. A technical result is that the...
5838011 Correction device for the correction of lens aberrations in particle-optical apparatus  
Particle-optical rotationally-symmetrical lenses inevitably exhibit spherical and chromatic aberration. These lens aberrations usually determine the limit of the resolution of the known...