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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 1998
Filed:
Jun. 25, 1996
Toshiei Kurosaki, Hitachinaka, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In a scanning electron microscope, a couple of fiducial patterns which are so laid out on the X-Y stage as to be separated with a distance equivalent to the distance between the optical axis of the optical microscope and the optical axis of the electronic optical system, the image signals of these patterns are captured by the image processing circuit, the position shift of the optical axis of the optical microscope and the position shift of the optical axis of the electronic optical system with respect to the fiducial patterns are obtained by numerical calculation, and then, this position shift is used as an offset value in the actual measurement by the scanning electron microscope, which leads to an accurate positioning.