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Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2021

Filed:

Feb. 12, 2020
Applicant:

Applied Materials Israel Ltd., Rehovot, IL;

Inventors:

Alon Litman, Nes-Ziona, IL;

Konstantin Chirko, Rehovot, IL;

Yehuda Zur, Tel-Aviv, IL;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01J 37/28 (2006.01); H01L 27/108 (2006.01); H01L 27/11556 (2017.01); H01L 27/11582 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01J 37/28 (2013.01); H01L 27/1085 (2013.01); H01L 27/11556 (2013.01); H01L 27/11582 (2013.01); H01J 2237/2817 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method of evaluating a region of a sample that includes an array of holes separated by solid portions. The method includes positioning the sample within in a vacuum chamber of an evaluation tool that includes a scanning electron microscope (SEM) column and a focused ion beam (FIB); injecting a deposition gas onto the sample; scanning, with a first charged particle beam, a portion of the sample that includes a plurality of holes in the array of holes to locally deposit material within the plurality of holes in the scanned portion from the deposition gas; and milling, with the FIB column, the portion of the sample that includes the plurality of holes in which the material was locally deposited.


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