Hitachi-high-technologies Corporation

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Ryuichiro Tamochi

Mitsugu Sato

Hiroyuki Noda

Kunji Shigeto

Noriko Iizumi

Yayoi Konishi

Tohru Ando

Shinichi Tomita

Mami Konomi

Masako Nishimura

Shunya Watanabe

Takahiro Inada

Yukari Dan

An image display device displays operation items of an electron microscope on an operation screen, and a storage device stores information of assist buttons which display image state information acquired via a detector of the electron microscope. The information of the assist buttons corresponds to image quality of an acquired image via the detector as well as to observation conditions composed of a combination of parameter setting values of the electron microscope, an operation program which analyzes the image quality of the acquired image. The information of the assist buttons is acquired based on analytical results of the image quality as well as current observation conditions, and the assist buttons are displayed on a predetermined part of the operation screen. Accordingly, the skills of a novice user operating a charged particle beam apparatus can be improved.

Charged particle beam apparatus, specimen observation system and operation program

A charged particle beam apparatus is provided with a parameter adjustment practice function for allowing any user to easily learn manual focus adjustment and stigma adjustment. Control conditions of the focus arrangement of an objective lens, an X-stigmator and a Y-stigmator are set according to the user's operation. According to a group of the focus adjustment, an X-stigma adjustment and a Y-stigma adjustment which are set, a practice-purpose image corresponding to the control conditions is read out from a storage device and is displayed on a screen.

Charged particle beam apparatus

A scanning electron microscope is provided which is capable of efficiently detecting ions, such as primary electron excitation ions, reflection electron excitation ions or secondary electron excitation ions caused by a bias electric field, thereby obtaining an absorption current. A scanning electron microscope irradiates an electron beam to a sample while keeping a sample chamber pressure at 1 Pa or higher, to detect generated ions and display a sample image. An ion detecting electrode is provided exclusively for detecting ions. The ion detecting electrode is arranged nearby a path for accelerating ions by a bias electrode.

Scanning electron microscope

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Tokyo, Japan

Ryuichiro Tamochi