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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 20, 2004

Filed:

Oct. 25, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:

Miyuki Matsuya, Tokyo, JP;

Kazuhiro Honda, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

Jeol Ltd., Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01J 3/14 ; H01J 3/726 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01J 3/14 ; H01J 3/726 ;
Abstract

An aberration corrector comprises four stages of electrostatic quadrupole elements, two stages of electrostatic quadrupole elements for superimposing a magnetic potential distribution analogous to the electric potential distribution created by the two central ones of the four stages of the electrostatic quadrupole elements on the electric potential distribution, an objective lens, a manual operation portion permitting a user to modify the accelerating voltage or the working distance, a power supply for supplying voltages to the four stages of electrostatic quadrupole elements, a power supply for exciting the two stages of magnetic quadrupole elements, a power supply for the objective lens, and a control portion for controlling the power supplies according to a manual operation or setting performed on the manual operation portion.


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