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Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2015

Filed:

Dec. 20, 2012
Applicant:

Hitachi High-technologies Corporation, Minato-ku, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Wataru Kotake, Tokyo, JP;

Shigeru Kawamata, Tokyo, JP;

Sukehiro Ito, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01J 37/00 (2006.01); H01J 37/24 (2006.01); H01J 37/26 (2006.01); H01J 37/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01J 37/24 (2013.01); H01J 37/261 (2013.01); H01J 37/28 (2013.01);
Abstract

A control device () for a charged particle beam device () tilts the irradiation axis of a primary electron beam () to the left, straight, or to the right via tilting coils () each time the primary electron beam () scans the surface of a sample () over a single scanning line. When the irradiation axis is changed, the focal point of the primary electron beam () is adjusted by a focal point-adjusting coil () based on the tilt of the irradiation axis in order to take a left-tilted observation image, a non-tilted observation image or a right-tilted observation image of the surface of a sample () for each scanning line. The left-tilted observation images, non-tilted observation images and right-tilted observation images for the scanning lines obtained up to this point are simultaneously displayed on the same display device (). In this way, focused non-tilted observation images and focused tilted observation images can be taken and displayed nearly simultaneously.


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