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7235796 Method and apparatus for the generation of anionic and neutral particulate beams and a system using same  
An apparatus for the generation of anionic and neutral particulate beams is described. The apparatus comprises a duct defined by walls having an inner surface capable of sustaining a temperature...
7233008 Multiple electrode lens arrangement and a method for inspecting an object  
A inspection system includes: a lens arrangement adapted to generate a substantially symmetrical electrostatic field about an optical axis and to direct a primary electron beam towards an object...
7230257 Electron beam exposure apparatus  
An electron beam exposure apparatus comprising: column 1 for irradiating an electron beam to wafer 10 serving as a sample; sample chamber 3 having vacuum pump 40 as a vacuum exhaustion unit...
7230252 Aberration adjusting method, device fabrication method, and charged particle beam lithography machine  
An aberration adjusting method of a charged particle beam optical system. The method includes an aberration measuring step of measuring N aberrations of the charged particle beam optical system, an...
7227155 Electrostatic deflection system with impedance matching for high positioning accuracy  
An apparatus and method for deflecting electron beams with high precision and high throughput. At least one electrode of a deflecting capacitor is connected to a signal source via a coaxial cable....
7227141 Electron beam apparatus  
An electron beam apparatus is provided in which a sample is scanned with a plurality of primary electron beams respectively emitted from a plurality of electron guns. Each of the electron guns...
7217924 Holey mirror arrangement for dual-energy e-beam inspector  
One embodiment relates to an apparatus for generating a dual-energy electron beam. A first electron beam source is configured to generate a lower-energy electron beam, and a second electron beam...
7211804 Chromatic aberration corrector for charged particles and charged-particle optical apparatus using the corrector  
The present invention provides an aberration corrector functioning under a condition outside the setting optical condition of an incorporated charged particle beam apparatus. An intermediate...
7208889 Particle accelerator having wide energy control range  
A particle accelerator system for producing a charged particle beam having pulses of charged particles that have different energy levels from pulse to pulse. The system enables independent...
7208729 Monolithic micro-engineered mass spectrometer  
A method of constructing a micro-engineered mass spectrometer from bonded silicon-on-insulator (BSOI) wafers is described with reference to a quadrupole spectrometer. The quadrupole geometry is...
7205542 Scanning electron microscope with curved axes  
One embodiment relates to a scanning electron beam apparatus having curved electron-optical axes. An electron gun and illumination electron optics are configured to generate a primary electron beam...
7199373 Particle-optic electrostatic lens  
In a charged-particle beam exposure device, an electrostatic lens (ML) comprises several (at least three) electrodes with rotational symmetry (EFR, EM, EFN) surrounding a particle beam path; the...
7196337 Particle processing apparatus and methods  
This invention relates to an apparatus for processing particles. The apparatus comprises a particle source having an exist aperture; an extraction electrode located at the exist aperture; an...
7196336 Apparatus for injecting plasma gas in atmosphere  
An apparatus for injecting plasma in the atmosphere is provided, including a plurality of dielectric panels ( 13 a, 13 b, 13 c ), and 13 d , which are disposed in parallel at predetermined...
7193221 Electronic optical lens barrel and production method therefor  
The present invention provides an electron optical lens column suitable for miniaturization, and provides the manufacturing method thereof. The column unit ( 1 ) comprises an inner column ( 11 )...
7189980 Methods and systems for optimizing ion implantation uniformity control  
An apparatus and method are provided for optimizing ion implantation uniformity in a workpiece, such as a semiconductor wafer, which includes an ion beam generator for generating an ion beam, a...
7189982 Focused ion beam apparatus and aperture  
In an aperture for use in an ion beam optical system having its surface coated with a liquid metal, instability of an ion source attributable to sputtering and re-deposition of an aperture base...
7189981 Electromagnetic focusing method for electron-beam lithography system  
A method for projecting a predetermined pattern of an electron beam from an emitter to a wafer in a vacuum chamber of an electron-beam lithography system is provided. An initial condition for...
7187345 Image forming method and charged particle beam apparatus  
An image forming method and a charged particle beam apparatus suitable for suppressing the inclination of charging when scanning a two-dimensional area with a charged particle beam. A third...
7180078 Integrated planar ion traps  
An apparatus for an ion trap includes an electrically conductive substrate having top and bottom surfaces and having vias that cross from the top surface to the bottom surface. The apparatus...
7173262 Charged particle beam exposure apparatus, charged particle beam exposure method and device manufacturing method  
A charged particle beam exposure apparatus for writing a desired pattern on a substrate using a charged particle beam. The apparatus includes a blanking unit, having a deflector capable of...
7173263 Optical switching in lithography system  
A maskless lithography system for transferring a pattern onto the surface of a target. At least one beam generator generates a plurality of beamlets. A plurality of modulators modulate the...
7166836 Ion beam focusing device  
The invention provides an apparatus for focusing ions exiting a multipole mass filter. In general terms, the ion focusing apparatus comprises: a housing having an ion entrance and an ion exit, and,...
7166965 Waveguide and microwave ion source equipped with the waveguide  
A waveguide of the present invention comprises a waveguide main body made of a material selected from a boron nitride or an aluminum oxide, and a thin film made of a titanium nitride to cover an...
7161158 System and method for fast focal length alterations  
An apparatus and method for fast changing a focal length of a charged particle beam the method comprising the step of changing a control signal in response to a relationship between the control...
7154105 Method of exposing using electron beam  
Provided is a method of exposing using an electron beam. The provided method of exposing using the electron beam includes defining main fields on an exposure area of an electron beam exposure...
7151268 Field emission gun and electron beam instruments  
A field-emission electron gun includes a field-emission cathode including a single fiber-like carbon substance and an electrically-conductive substrate for supporting the substance, an extractor...
7145154 Method of automatically correcting aberrations in charged-particle beam and apparatus therefor  
The present invention provides method and apparatus for automatically correcting aberrations in a charged-particle beam. The apparatus has a memory for storing image data obtained by scanning a...
7141789 Method and apparatus for providing two-dimensional substantially quadrupole fields having selected hexapole components  
A method and apparatus for manipulating ions using a two-dimensional substantially quadrupole field, and a method of manufacturing and operating an apparatus for manipulating ions using a...
7141800 Non-dispersive charged particle energy analyzer  
An electron energy analyzer including a curved electrostatic low-pass reflector and a high-pass electrostatic transmissive filter. The reflector comprises a curved grid, preferably ellipsoidal, and...
7138641 Beam deflecting method, beam deflector for scanning, ion implantation method, and ion implantation system  
A beam deflector for scanning performs deflecting of a charged particle beam having a regular trajectory in a vacuum space to thereby periodically change the trajectory of the charged particle...
7138642 Ion source with controlled superposition of electrostatic and gas flow fields  
Ion source devices with controlled superposition of electrostatic and gas flow fields to effect rapid collisional cooling with improved ion collection and collimation, analytical apparatus...
7135677 Beam guiding arrangement, imaging method, electron microscopy system and electron lithography system  
An electron microscopy system comprises an objective lens ( 19 ) which images a field displaceable in x-direction on a fixed beam axis ( 17 ). The objective lens has an astigmatic effect which is...
7129502 Apparatus for generating a plurality of beamlets  
The invention relates to an apparatus for generating a plurality of charged particle beamlets, comprising a charged particle source for generating a diverging charged particle beam, a converging...
7129485 Electron beam apparatus and method of manufacturing semiconductor device using the apparatus  
The present invention provides an electron beam apparatus for irradiating a sample with primary electron beams to detect secondary electron beams generated from a surface of the sample by the...
7112786 Atmospheric pressure ion source high pass ion filter  
For generation and delivery of ions from an ionization chamber through an ion entrance orifice to a mass analyzer operating at high vacuum, high pass ion filtration is effected within the...
7112803 Beam directing system and method for use in a charged particle beam column  
A method and system are presented for directing a charged particle beam towards and away from a sample. The system comprises a lens arrangement having an electrode formed with a beam opening for a...
7112809 Electrostatic lens for ion beams  
A lens structure for use with an ion beam implanter. The lens structure includes first and second electrodes spaced apart along a direction of ion movement. The lens structure extends across a...
7109494 Deflector, method of manufacturing deflector, and charged particle beam exposure apparatus using deflector  
A deflector which makes multilayered wiring possible and prevents contamination during the manufacture includes an electrode substrate ( 400 ) having a plurality of through holes, and an electrode...
7109486 Layered electron beam column and method of use thereof  
An electron beam column package comprises a plurality of layers having components, such as lenses, coupled thereto. The layers may be made of LTCC, HTCC or other layer technology.
7109498 Radiation source, lithographic apparatus, and device manufacturing method  
A radiation source for use in lithography. The radiation source comprising a pn-junction disposed on a substrate that can be reverse-biased to cause avalanche breakdown and emission of UV or DUV...
7109493 Particle beam generator  
The source of electrons is a nanotip in a vacuum as used in near field microscopy. The source of ions is a similar nanotip in vacuum supplied with liquid metal (gallium) as in a liquid-metal ion...
7105833 Deflection system for a particle beam device  
A particle beam apparatus and a device for an energy corrected deflection by a predetermined deflection angle of a particle beam coming in along a beam axis are disclosed, whereby the particle beam...
7105839 Method and fine-control collimator for accurate collimation and precise parallel alignment of scanned ion beams  
In system for implanting workpieces with an accurately parallel scanned ion beam, a fine-control collimator construct is used to reduce the deviation of the scanned ion beam from a specified axis...
7105817 Method of forming images in a scanning electron microscope  
An imaging device having many detector elements is used to construct multiple images of the surface of a specimen in a scanning electron microscope (SEM) using signals from different elements of...
7094312 Focused particle beam systems and methods using a tilt column  
Particle beam systems and methods for interacting with a workpiece according to this invention include a work stage assembly and a first particle beam source. The work stage assembly is adapted a)...
7095031 Method of automatically correcting aberrations in charged-particle beam and apparatus therefor  
The present invention provides method and apparatus for automatically correcting aberrations in a charged-particle beam. The apparatus extracts line profiles from the probe profile of the...
7091478 Method and device for controlling a beam extraction raster scan irradiation device for heavy ions or protons  
The invention relates to a method and to a device for controlling a beam extraction irradiation device for heavy ions operating according to the raster scan technique, wherein the beam energy, beam...
7091504 Electron beam exposure system  
The invention relates to an electron beam exposure apparatus for transferring a pattern onto the surface of a target, comprising: a beamlet generator for generating a plurality of electron...
7078852 Method and apparatus for simultaneously depositing and observing materials on a target  
A system for joining at least two beams of charged particles that includes directing a first beam along a first axis into a field. A second beam is directed along a second axis into the field. The...