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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 07, 2018
Applied Materials Israel Ltd., Rehovot, IL;
APPLIED MATERIALS ISRAEL LTD., Rehovot, IL;
Abstract
A method for evaluating a region of an object, the method may include repeating, for each sub-region out of a first sub-region of the region till a penultimate sub-region of the region, the steps of: (a) acquiring, by a charged particle imager, a charged particle image of the sub-region; and (b) milling, by a charged particle miller, the sub-region to expose another sub-region of region; acquiring, by the charged particle imager, a charged particle image of a last sub-region of the region; and generating three-dimensional information about a content of the region based on charge particle images of the first sub-region till last sub-region of the region.