Korean Journal of Materials Research, Vol.14, No.3, 186-190, March, 2004
초소형 전자칼럼의 제작 및 특성 연구
Fabrication Method of the Electron Beam Microcolumn and Its Performance Evaluation
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An electron beam microcolumn composed of an electron emitter, micro lenses, scan deflector, and focus lenses have been fabricated and tested in the STEM mode. In this paper, we report a technique of precisely aligning the electron lenses by the laser diffraction patterns instead of the conventional alignment method based on aligner and STM. STEM images of a standard Cu-grid were observed using a fabricated microcolumn under both the retarding and accelerating modes.
Keywords:electron beam microcolumn;laser diffraction pattern;electron optics;laser alignment;electron beam lithography
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