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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:
Jul. 05, 2005

Filed:

Aug. 13, 2003
Applicants:

Oliver Kienzle, Aalen, DE;

Rainer Knippelmeyer, Aalen, DE;

Inventors:

Oliver Kienzle, Aalen, DE;

Rainer Knippelmeyer, Aalen, DE;

Assignee:

Carl Zeiss NTS GmbH, Oberkochen, DE;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01J037/304 ; H01J003/14 ; G01N023/00 ; G21G005/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A particle-optical apparatus is provided for directing a beam of charged particles on an object plane or to image the object plane with the beam onto an image plane or intermediate image plane. The apparatus comprises a stack of lens assemblies which are disposed in beam direction at a fixed distances spaced apart from which other and are controllable for providing successively adjustable deflection fields for a beam traversing the stack. Each lens assembly provides at least one field source member for a magnetic or electric field. In particular, two rows of a plurality of field source members per lens assembly can be provided.


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