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7629589 Apparatus and method for controlling ion beam  
An apparatus and/or method for controlling an ion beam may be provided, and/or a method for preparing an extraction electrode for the same may be provided. In the apparatus, a plurality of...
7626347 Programmable radio frequency waveform generator for a synchrocyclotron  
A synchrocyclotron comprises a resonant circuit that includes electrodes having a gap therebetween across the magnetic field. An oscillating voltage input, having a variable amplitude and frequency...
7626180 Charged particle beam apparatus, method for controlling charged particle, and frequency adjustment apparatus  
An ion gun 11 supplies an Ar gas into a main body 111 from a gas inlet 114 , causes DC hot cathode discharge between a filament 113 and an anode 112 to generate Ar plasma. Next, a voltage...
7626179 Electron beam induced resonance  
We describe an ultra-small structure that produces visible light of varying frequency, from a single metallic layer. In one example, a row of metallic posts are etched or plated on a substrate...
7622721 Focused anode layer ion source with converging and charge compensated beam (falcon)  
A focused ion source based on a Hall thruster with closed loop electron drift and a narrow acceleration zone is disclosed. The ion source of the invention has an ion focusing system consisting of...
7622713 Method and apparatus for normalizing performance of an electron source  
A method for operating a mass spectrometer includes determining a first performance characteristic while operating the mass spectrometer with a first electron emitter, storing first information...
7619373 Selectable frequency light emitter  
We describe an ultra-small resonant structure that produces electromagnetic radiation (e.g., visible light) at selected frequencies. The resonant structure can be produced from any conducting...
7619219 Scanning electron microscope  
The present invention was made in view of a problem of an electron microscope in which a reduction in detection efficiency of electrons detected by a detector should be prevented by eliminating any...
7619224 Generation, acceleration, focusing and collection of a high-brightness, space-charge-dominated circular charged-particle beam  
A high-brightness, space-charge-dominated circular charged-particle beam system includes a flat circular emitter that emits charge particles to form a space-charge-dominated circular...
7619213 Ion extraction pulser and method for mass spectrometry  
The invention provides an ion extraction pulser. The ion extraction pulser may be used independently or in conjunction with a mass spectrometry system. The mass spectrometry system includes an ion...
7612336 Scanning electron microscope having a monochromator  
A scanning electron microscope having a monochromator that can automatically adjust an electron beam entering the monochromator and operating conditions of the monochromator. The scanning electron...
7612321 Optical coupling apparatus for a dual column charged particle beam tool for imaging and forming silicide in a localized manner  
An optical coupling apparatus for a dual column charged particle beam tool allowing both optical imaging of an area of an integrated circuit, as well as localized heating of the integrated circuit...
7612334 Standard reference component for calibration, fabrication method for the same, and scanning electron microscope using the same  
The present invention provides a standard reference component for calibration for performing magnification calibration used in the scanning electron microscope with high precision, and provides a...
7612353 Lithographic apparatus, contaminant trap, and device manufacturing method  
A lithographic apparatus includes a radiation system including a radiation source for the production of a radiation beam, and a contaminant trap arranged in a path of the radiation beam. The...
7609009 Linear ion accelerator  
The electrode lengths of a plurality of electrodes linearly arranged in an acceleration cavity are proportional to the velocity of a traveling ion beam. Further, the electrode length is so...
7608845 Charged particle beam writing apparatus and method thereof, and method for resizing dimension variation due to loading effect  
A charged particle beam writing apparatus includes a first part configured, based on pattern data, to estimate a total writing time, a second part configured to acquire a base dose at an arbitrary...
7608838 Electron optical component  
An electron optical component used to improve the spatial resolution in magnetic projection electron lenses or other electron optical devices by filtering the cyclotron orbit radii of electron...
7605377 On-chip reflectron and ion optics  
A microelectronics apparatus comprising a substrate, a pair of grid electrodes coupled to the substrate on opposing sides of a central axis, wherein the grid electrodes are substantially parallel...
7605378 Charged-particle beam system  
There is disclosed a charged-particle beam system equipped with a higher-order aberration corrector capable of correcting fifth-order spherical aberration and third-order chromatic aberration such...
7601969 Illumination condenser for a particle optical projection system  
An illumination condenser for a particle optics projection system is disclosed. The illumination condenser is formed of a magnetic lens comprising a plurality of gaps. The magnetic lens is formed...
7601968 Charged particle beam writing method and apparatus  
A charged particle beam writing method includes irradiating a shot of a charged particle beam, and deflecting the charged particle beam of the shot using a plurality of deflectors arranged on an...
7598498 Electric field lens and ion implanter having the same  
An electric field lens includes an entrance electrode, an intermediate electrode, and an exit electrode that are arranged in a traveling direction of ion beams. The intermediate electrode is...
7598495 Methods and systems for trapping ion beam particles and focusing an ion beam  
A focusing particle trap system for ion implantation comprising an ion beam source that generates an ion beam, a beam line assembly that receives the ion beam from the ion beam source comprising a...
7598499 Charged-particle exposure apparatus  
In a particle-beam projection processing apparatus a target ( 41 ) is irradiated by means of a beam (pb) of energetic electrically charged particles, using a projection system ( 103 ) to image a...
7598504 Writing error diagnosis method for charged particle beam photolithography apparatus and charged particle beam photolithography apparatus  
A writing error diagnosis method for a charged beam photolithography apparatus and a charged beam photolithography apparatus which can specify an error cause within a short period of time in...
7598497 Charged particle beam scanning method and charged particle beam apparatus  
A method and an apparatus for calculating a scan signal so that the scan region becomes a scan region which is based on magnification ratio between desired magnification in a scan-line interval...
7598496 Charged-particle beam system  
An aberration for correcting higher-order aberrations with a relatively small number of components is by let N1 being the aberration order at a first location, S1 being the symmetry at the first...
7595486 RF multipole ion guides for broad mass range  
In a multipole rod ion guide system operated with RF voltages to collect or transmit ions, the inhomogeneity of the electric RF fields is increased in front of the ion guide rods by forming the rod...
7592604 Charged particle beam apparatus  
The present invention provides a charged particle beam apparatus capable of preventing the charging-up of the specimen without using a large-scale facility. A scanning electron microscope 100 ...
7592590 Charged particle beam device with detection unit switch and method of operation thereof  
The invention provides a charged particle beam device and a method of operation thereof. An emitter ( 2 ) emits a primary charged particle beam ( 12 ). Depending on the action of a deflection...
7586111 Ion implanter having combined hybrid and double mechanical scan architecture  
A system and method are provided for implanting ions into a workpiece in a plurality of operating ranges. A desired dosage of ions is provided, and a spot ion beam is formed from an ion source and...
7586098 Ion stripper device made of carbon nanotubes or fullerenes  
A system and method for developing a solid state stripper device is described that more effectively strips off negative carbon ions to produce positively charged carbon ions. In one embodiment the...
7586097 Switching micro-resonant structures using at least one director  
When using micro-resonant structures, it is possible to use the same source of charged particles to cause multiple resonant structures to emit electromagnetic radiation. This reduces the number of...
7579605 Multi-purpose electrostatic lens for an ion implanter system  
Multi-purpose electrostatic lens for an ion implanter. The electrostatic lens allows an ion implanter to scan, accelerate, decelerate, expand, compress, focus and parallelize an ion beam. This...
7579604 Beam stop and beam tuning methods  
A system, method, and apparatus for mitigating contamination associated with ion implantation are provided. An ion source, end station, and mass analyzer positioned between the ion source and the...
7579602 Ion implantation with a collimator magnet and a neutral filter magnet  
This disclosure describes an ion implanter having a collimator magnet that is configured to shape an ion beam. A first deceleration stage is configured to manipulate energy of the ion beam shaped...
7576339 Ion implantation apparatus and method for obtaining non-uniform ion implantation energy  
An ion implantation apparatus includes an ion beam source for generating an ion beam; an implantation energy controller disposed on a path of the ion beam for controlling the ion implantation...
7576340 Focused ion beam processing method  
There is provided a focused ion beam processing method in which damage to a workpiece is minimized when the surface of the workpiece is irradiated and processed with an ion beam. The method...
7573050 Column simultaneously focusing a particle beam and an optical beam  
Column for simultaneously producing a focused particle beam and a focused light beam and method for treating a sample using the column. The column has lateral walls, an input electrode having a...
7573045 Plasmon wave propagation devices and methods  
Nanoantennas are formed on a substrate (e.g., silicon) and generate light via interactions with a charged particle beam, where the frequency of the generated light is based in large part on the...
7573051 Ion beam guide tube  
The present invention relates to a guide tube for an ion beam in an ion implanter located adjacent a semiconductor wafer. Such guide tubes are provided to confine charged particles used for wafer...
7569834 High resolution charged particle projection lens array using magnetic elements  
A charged particle optic apparatus for improvement in resolution of an electrostatic, multi-beam column is disclosed. The charged particle optic apparatus includes an electrostatic lens array...
7569833 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...
7569835 Gating grid and method of manufacture  
The present invention relates generally to grids for gating a stream of charged particles and methods for manufacturing the same. In one embodiment, the present invention relates to a...
7566887 Method of reducing particle contamination for ion implanters  
The present invention is directed to a beam control circuit and method used to minimize particle contamination in an ion implantation system by reducing the duty factor of the ion beam. In one...
7566888 Method and system for treating an interior surface of a workpiece using a charged particle beam  
A method and system of treating an interior surface on an internal cavity of a workpiece using a charged particle beam. A beam deflector surface of a beam deflector is placed within the internal...
7566873 High-resolution, low-distortion and high-efficiency optical coupling in detection system of electron beam apparatus  
One embodiment relates to an apparatus for inspecting a substrate using charged particles. The apparatus includes an illumination subsystem, an objective subsystem, a projection subsystem, and a...
7566882 Reflection lithography using rotating platter  
One embodiment pertains to a method of electron beam lithography. An illumination electron beam is formed, and a dynamic pattern generating device is used to generate an electron-reflective pattern...
7564025 Multipole devices and methods  
The present invention provides, inter alia, a multipole ion guide for moving and guiding ions, particularly in a mass spectrometer. The multipole ion guide comprises multiple rods with a resistive...
7564042 Ion beam apparatus having plasma sheath controller  
An ion beam apparatus includes a plasma chamber with a grid assembly installed at one end of the plasma chamber and a plasma sheath controller disposed between the plasma chamber and the grid...