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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2000
Filed:
May. 01, 1998
Taiji Kitagawa, Fujisawa, JP;
Mitsugu Sato, Hitachinaka, JP;
Goroku Shimoma, Minori-machi, JP;
Tadanori Takahashi, Hitachinaka, JP;
Naoto Yoshida, Hitachinaka, JP;
Masayuki Yukii, Hitachinaka, JP;
Takanori Ninomiya, Hiratsuka, JP;
Tatsuo Horiuchi, Chigasaki, JP;
Keisuke Kawame, Yokohama, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An electron microscope resolving power evaluation method for evaluating performance of a scanning electron microscope without resorting to visual sensory analysis for minimizing a difference in deterioration with age and in performance among individual scanning electron microscopes. A specimen is prepared by overlaying materials having different emission coefficients of secondary charged particles such as secondary electrons, backscattered electrons, transmitted electrons, etc., a cross-section including an overlaid material part of thin-film layers having known dimensions is mirror-finished, data of a scanning electron microscopical image of the cross-section, including the overlaid material part is obtained, and then the resolving power performance of the scanning electron microscope is evaluated quantitatively by means of frequency analysis, etc.