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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 07, 2014
Fei Company, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Hanno Sebastian von Harrach, Eindhoven, NL;
Bert Henning Freitag, Eindhoven, NL;
Pleun Dona, Veldhoven, NL;
FEI Company, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Abstract
A detector support for an electron microscope including a detector support ring and flexible elements, wherein a first end of each of the flexible elements is connected to the support ring, and wherein the detector support ring and the flexible elements are configured to support at least two detectors in a circumferential arrangement around an optical axis of the electron microscope such that an optical axis of each of the at least two detectors intersects the optical axis of the electron microscope and a target point of the at least two detectors is maintained relatively constant over a temperature change.