WO2013012041A1 - 走査電子顕微鏡及び走査透過電子顕微鏡 - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a scanning transmission electron microscope, and more particularly, to a charged particle device that forms a three-dimensional image using a sample secondary electron scanning image and a sample transmission image having atomic resolution, and when a sample to be observed has a different structure and composition inside.
- the present invention relates to a scanning transmission electron microscope for visualizing a structure in a sample, and a scanning transmission electron microscope for identifying an element by mixing a sample secondary electron scanning image and a scanning sample enlarged image by a sample forward scattered electron.
- sample backscattered electrons samples are obtained by the interaction with the irradiated primary electron beam.
- Various types of electrons such as forward scattered electrons and transmitted electrons can be obtained.
- Various electrons are discriminated and detected according to the relationship between the sample and the detection position, and it is possible to obtain a characteristic image contrast in each detector and form a scanning enlarged image of the sample.
- the three-dimensional information and resolution of the sample obtained from the sample image will be described using a scanning transmission electron microscope as an example.
- a scanning transmission electron microscope forms an image using secondary electrons, forward scattered electrons, and transmitted electrons from a sample generated when the electron beam is formed into a minute spot and scanned over the sample. Reach resolution.
- the transmission electrons are composed of electrons that have passed through the sample and electrons that have been inelastically scattered and have lost a little energy, and form an image similar to that of a so-called transmission electron microscope.
- the transmission electron image is separated into an amplitude contrast and a phase contrast, and an atomic resolution image is formed by the phase contrast formed by the interference electron beam from the sample.
- the atomic resolution image by transmitted electrons changes the contrast formed by the electron beam focus on the sample. Therefore, it is not easy to identify the position of the atom, and it is usually necessary to interpret it against the simulation image. .
- FIG. 2 schematically shows the difference in appearance in the observed two-dimensional image.
- SE image secondary electron image
- D-STEM image sample forward scattered electron image
- An image reflecting the structure is observed.
- the sample structure is several nm or less or an atomic arrangement
- the defocus (defocus ⁇ f) of the irradiation electron beam is given about 20 nm
- the contrast reflecting the structure is almost lost in the secondary electron image.
- the sample forward scattered electron image can be observed while maintaining a strong contrast.
- the probe size of the electron beam is given by equation 1 called the so-called Everhart equation.
- the probe size of the primary electron beam expressed by Equation 1 is given by the instrumental factors of the electron microscope, and ideally gives the image resolution of the scanning electron microscope.
- the first term is influenced by the spherical aberration (C s ) of the electron lens and is proportional to the cube of the electron beam irradiation angle ⁇ .
- the second term is an effect due to the chromatic aberration (C c ) of the electron lens and depends on the minute displacement ⁇ E of the acceleration voltage E of the primary electron beam and the irradiation angle ⁇ .
- the third term diffraction aberration, paragraph 4 depends on the function of the brightness ⁇ and electron probe current i p of the electron source.
- FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram showing the relationship between the electron beam irradiation angle and the electron beam probe size.
- the relationship between the electron beam probe size shown in Formula 1 and the irradiation angle is illustrated.
- a charged particle device according to the invention when equipped with the aberration corrector to correct spherical aberration C s of the electron beam probe can be made substantially zero first term of Equation 1.
- an electron beam probe of 0.1 nm or less can be formed.
- the electron beam probe size becomes smaller as the irradiation angle becomes larger, the minimum value is given by the irradiation angle ⁇ 0 , and the probe diameter becomes larger as the irradiation angle becomes larger.
- the image resolution in the secondary electron image is based on the synthesis of two events of the electron beam probe size and the electron diffusion in the sample, but the atomic resolution was not obtained in the conventional secondary electron image.
- Non-Patent Document 1 reduced the size of the irradiation electron beam to reduce the atomic resolution secondary even in the scanning electron microscope. It was found that an electronic image can be observed. This enabled the application of a scanning (transmission) electron microscope with an atomic resolution secondary electron image.
- Patent Document 1 provides an electron beam apparatus capable of generating and measuring a three-dimensional image of a sample having a sample irregularity, and obtaining three-dimensional sample information by changing electron beam focus conditions. However, a three-dimensional image in which atoms were identified could not be obtained.
- Patent Document 2 in order to obtain a three-dimensional structure of a sample, an electron beam is tilted and observed, and another observation technique such as AFM or STM is combined to obtain a three-dimensional image.
- AFM an observation technique
- STM another observation technique
- a three-dimensional observation of a 0.1 nm atomic size structure is possible in a scanning (transmission) electron microscope, and (b) a three-dimensional structure of atoms in a sample in the scanning (transmission) electron microscope.
- the purpose is to enable identification of materials.
- the present invention has an electron lens system with a small spherical aberration coefficient in order to enable three-dimensional observation of a 0.1 nm atomic size structure, a diaphragm capable of changing the irradiation angle, the probe size of the electron beam probe, and the irradiation Irradiation electron lens system that can change the angle, secondary electron detector, transmission electron detector, forward scattered electron beam detector, variable focus device, image calculation device that identifies image contrast, and calculation of image sharpness
- the main features of the image processing apparatus include an image processing apparatus that performs three-dimensional construction of an image, and a mixer that mixes a secondary electron signal and a sample forward scattered electron signal.
- the charged particle device of the present invention uses secondary electrons that can identify atoms, there is an advantage of enabling three-dimensional observation at an atomic size.
- the structure in the sample can be easily visualized in a visual field where the sample to be observed is superimposed in the depth direction on the observation axis.
- the conditions under which an image having atomic resolution can be observed in the secondary electron image are as follows: (1) The primary electron beam in the sample has a small spread, and the interaction volume with the sample (interaction volume) is small. ) The spherical aberration of the objective lens can be made extremely small and the electron beam probe diameter can be adjusted to a sub-nanometer diameter. (3) The irradiation angle of the electron beam is large and the focal depth is shallow. It is possible to generate a large amount of secondary electrons for detection.
- an electron beam with an acceleration voltage of about 20 kV diffuses from 200 to 300 nm at a sample depth of 100 nm, but is less than 10 nm at an acceleration voltage of 200 kV.
- (2) to (4) can be achieved by downsizing the electron beam probe using a spherical aberration corrector. As described above, it is possible to obtain a secondary electron image having atomic resolution by increasing the acceleration voltage of the primary electron beam using the aberration corrector.
- FIG. 12 schematically shows a difference in contrast due to a difference in elements when a secondary electron image and a dark field STEM image are taken simultaneously. Therefore, it has become possible to specify the three-dimensional structure and material of atoms in a sample by combining information of a secondary electron image having atomic resolution and a forward scattered electron image or a transmission electron image.
- FIG. 1 is a schematic view showing an embodiment of the charged particle of the present invention.
- the primary electron beam 2 generated by the electron gun 1 is converged by the converging lens 3 and passes through the aperture 4.
- the converging lens is shown in one stage for simplicity, but in order to change the irradiation angle, two stages are used to change the irradiation angle, and the irradiation angle is changed while the reduction ratio of the electron source generated by the electron gun is fixed. Consists of three or more converging lenses.
- the diaphragm 4 is set to an arbitrary diaphragm diameter in order to obtain a desired irradiation angle on the sample surface.
- the irradiation angle of the electron beam applied to the sample is determined by the diameter of this diaphragm.
- An aberration corrector 5 for correcting the spherical aberration of the objective lens 7 is mounted in order to reduce the beam diameter at the sample position of the primary electron beam 2 to 0.1 nm or less.
- the aberration corrector 5 has various configurations depending on the combination of the multipole lenses to be used. In the present invention, if one electron lens is provided on the electron beam incident side of the spherical aberration corrector, the structure is a hexapole type. A quadrupole-octupole composite type may also be used. Moreover, the electron beam probe diameter expressed by Equation 1 is equivalent to setting the term of spherical aberration of the first term to zero.
- an aberration corrector is used. Further, when the spherical aberration of the electron lens is corrected using the aberration corrector, it is possible to generate a primary electron beam that is not affected by the spherical aberration in a region away from the electron beam optical axis. Therefore, an electron beam with a large irradiation angle can be given, and as a result, the depth of focus can be reduced.
- the primary electron beam 2 scans the sample with the electron beam scanner 6. This scanning direction depends on the current waveform generated by the scanning signal generator 17.
- the structure of the electron beam scanner 6 may be either magnetic or electric.
- Secondary electrons 14 are generated by the primary electron beam 2 finely focused by the objective lens 7 irradiated to the sample 15 and detected by the upper secondary electron detector 8 or the lower secondary electron detector 9.
- FIG. 1 shows an example of two upper and lower secondary electron detectors, one may be used.
- the detector structure may be a detector comprising a phosphor and a photomultiplier tube or a semiconductor detector.
- the present invention does not stick to the existence of an energy filter for discriminating electron beam energy between the secondary electron detector and the sample or a discriminator for secondary electrons and reflected electrons by an electromagnetic field.
- the transmitted electrons and forward scattered electrons transmitted through the sample 15 are detected by the forward scattered electron detector 12 and the transmitted electron detector 13 disposed below the sample 15.
- Various signal electron beams detected by these detectors pass through an amplifier circuit and are then input to the signal mixer 18 to select secondary electrons and a desired transmission signal.
- the signal that has passed through the signal mixer 18 is synchronized with the scanning signal by the signal synchronizer 19 to form a scanned image.
- the focus of the electron beam applied to the sample is adjusted by the focus variable device 16 that controls the objective lens 7 or the sample stage driving mechanism 10 that drives the sample stage.
- the focus variable device 16 controls the objective lens 7 or the sample stage driving mechanism 10 that drives the sample stage.
- the sample scanning magnified image is recorded on the recording device.
- the magnified images for each focus step are stacked and restored to a three-dimensional image by the image calculation device 20.
- the electron beam irradiation angle is changed depending on the intensity of the aperture or the converging lens, and the secondary electron signal of the sample surface structure and the structure existing in the depth direction is detected and recorded on the recording device as a secondary electron scanning image.
- the restored image is recorded in the image recording device 21 and displayed on the image display device 22.
- the contrast of the sample forward scattered electrons is evaluated by the image arithmetic unit 20, and the contrast threshold value for each element is determined and synthesized with the secondary electron scanning image.
- the composite image is recorded in the image recording device 21 or displayed on the image display device 22.
- FIG. 10 is an explanatory diagram showing a scan image series obtained by changing the incident electron beam, the generated various signal electrons, and the focus.
- the sample 15 is irradiated with the primary electron beam 2 narrowed down to about 0.1 nm. At this time, the irradiation electron beam scans on the sample 15.
- the electron beam interacting with the sample generates secondary electrons 14 and is detected by the upper secondary electron detector 8 and the lower secondary electron detector 9. Electrons that have passed through the sample are classified into forward scattered electrons 28 and transmitted electrons 29 according to the detection angle. Transmitted electrons 29 due to inelastic scattering along the electron beam optical axis are detected by the transmitted electron detector 13, and forward scattered electrons 28 elastically scattered by the sample are detected by the forward scattered electron detector 12.
- the detected signal is synchronized with the scanning waveform and temporarily recorded as a two-dimensional scan image photographed at an arbitrary focus step, for example, sequentially named focus1, focus2,. Secondary electrons and forward scattered electrons or transmitted electrons generated from the sample are simultaneously detected and recorded.
- FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing a change in image contrast accompanying a change in focus between the secondary electron image and the forward scattered electron image.
- the change of the focal depth of secondary electrons and forward scattered electrons is shown. From the experimental result of the focus dependence of the atomic image by the secondary electrons, the focal depth of the secondary electrons is shallower than the forward scattered electron image. This is due to the channeling contrast in which the contrast of forward scattered electrons increases in intensity in the atomic column.
- a three-dimensional structure is reconstructed as shown in FIG. 11 by superimposing the characteristic that the depth of focus of the secondary electron image having atomic resolution is shallow and the scan image of the defocus series shown in FIG. It is a figure which shows the Example of invention.
- a three-dimensional image is reconstructed with an atomic resolution secondary electron image alone.
- an electron beam CT method (Computed Tomography) is used.
- the secondary electron image taken with a shallow focal depth and changing the focus can be obtained as a slice image reflecting the structure of each layer. By doing so, reconstruction into a three-dimensional image is performed.
- the secondary electron image When reconstructing the secondary electron image alone, it is possible to observe the three-dimensional atomic image from the vicinity of the sample surface simultaneously with the contrast reflecting the sample surface shape, which is a characteristic of the secondary electrons. In addition, a three-dimensional structure of an object having about one atomic layer can be observed. When the three-dimensional structure is reconstructed after superimposing the transmitted electron or forward scattered electron signals taken simultaneously with the secondary electron image, the crystal spreads not only in the surface structure due to the secondary electrons but also in the depth direction of the sample. It is possible to reconstruct a three-dimensional structure reflecting the state of the structure.
- Equation 2 The depth of focus Z DOF of the irradiation angle ⁇ of the electron beam probe size d is expressed by Equation 2.
- the electron beam probe size d when the electron beam probe size d is fixed, the depth of focus becomes shallow as the electron beam irradiation angle increases. In order to increase the focal depth by a factor of 2, the electron beam irradiation angle should be halved.
- FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing the relationship between the incident electron beam on the sample and the secondary electron image by the sample having a structure in the electron beam incident depth direction.
- the structure A has a different element composition in the sample surface layer
- the structure B has a different element composition in the sample
- the structure C has a structure in which an arc is drawn from the sample surface to the inside. Will be described.
- the structure A has a depth of 2 nm in the depth direction
- the structure B exists at a position about 20 nm deep from the surface and has a depth of 2 nm in the depth direction.
- the acceleration voltage of the primary electron beam is increased to make the interaction between the primary electron beam and the sample almost impossible (a state in which the primary electrons are not easily affected by the diffusion in the sample), and the irradiation angle is reduced.
- the electron beam acceleration voltage is set to a high voltage of about 200 kV
- the electron beam enters the sample, and on the other hand, there is almost no interaction between the primary electron beam and the sample, and it is difficult to be affected by the diffusion of the primary electrons in the sample.
- by reducing the irradiation angle and increasing the depth of focus it is possible to form an image of a signal from within the sample such as the structure B.
- SE1 is a secondary electron generated by the direct interaction between the primary electron beam and the sample
- SE2 is a secondary electron generated secondary by the sample backscattered electrons (reflected electrons) generated by the primary electron beam
- SE3 is the sample.
- SE4 refers to secondary electrons generated when backscattered electrons (reflected electrons) act on members inside the electron microscope
- SE4 refers to secondary electrons generated when a primary electron beam acts on members inside the electron microscope. Since backscattered electrons are generated by elastic scattering, they have substantially the same energy as that of the incident primary electron beam.
- a signal of the internal structure of the sample observed with a deep focal depth is composed of backscattered electrons themselves, SE2, SE3, and SE1 that have passed through the sample.
- SE2, SE3, and SE1 that have passed through the sample.
- the secondary electrons in the structure of the sample surface layer are mainly caused by SE1, but the secondary electrons generated in the internal structure of the sample may be either SE1, SE2 or SE3, or a combination thereof. However, it cannot be clearly distinguished.
- FIG. 5 is a diagram showing the relationship when an electron beam is incident on a sample having a tapered structure.
- the depth of focus and the amount of defocus can be measured.
- the size of this structure for example, the length of the top surface of the sample is Ltop, the length of the bottom surface of the sample is Lbottom, and the taper angle is ⁇ .
- different materials can be sputtered (physical vapor deposition), CVD (chemical vapor deposition), MBE (molecular beam epitaxy), etc. on a single crystal wafer.
- a method of epitaxial growth using a manufacturing method and selective etching at a specific site can be employed.
- the depth of focus measurement is performed as follows. Depth of focus Z DOF at the irradiation angle ⁇ . A secondary electron image is generated while scanning the electron beam under these conditions. Since the secondary electron image focused on the width of the d image is obtained from the tapered portion, the depth of focus can be actually measured from the dimensions of the designed tapered structure sample. In FIG. 5, the depth of focus Z DOF is obtained by Equation 3.
- the objective lens current value is set so that the electron beam is focused on the outermost surface, and that point is set as the normal focus position.
- a secondary electron image is generated while scanning the electron beam.
- the dimension of the structure portion is substantially equal to Ltop.
- change the objective lens coil excitation current to generate a secondary electron image, measure the dimensions of the structure, and compare the objective lens current value with the dimensions from the structure.
- the defocus value can be obtained.
- the objective lens coil excitation current is changed here as a defocusing method, a method of changing the height of the sample stage may be adopted. Further, the defocus value can be measured with higher accuracy when the measurement is performed in a state where the depth of focus is shallow.
- the evaluation can be performed under conditions that are close to the actual conditions, so that the quantitative evaluation accuracy of the depth of focus and the defocus amount can be further improved.
- This sample is mounted on the scanning transmission electron microscope of the present invention, and the relationship between the electron beam defocus and the image signal, the relationship between the electron beam focal depth and the observable image signal, or both are evaluated using the sample. can do. Furthermore, using this sample, the defocus amount can be determined by quantitatively evaluating the defocus of the electron beam and the image contrast of the secondary electron image observed at the same time by changing the strength of the objective lens or the height of the sample stage. It is possible to provide a scanning transmission electron microscope capable of obtaining the relationship between the image contrast and the image contrast in advance.
- the electron beam irradiation angle is changed by changing the size of the aperture or the intensity of the focusing lens, the focal depth of the electron beam is changed, and the image contrast of the secondary electron image observed simultaneously.
- Quantitative evaluation of image contrast can be considered in various ways. For example, there are a method for evaluating the sum of the signal intensities of each pixel of a two-dimensional digitized image and a method for obtaining the sharpness of the image. Here, a method for obtaining the sharpness of an image will be described.
- the image sharpness that gives the sharpness of the image in the M ⁇ N two-dimensional digital image is given by the following calculation.
- the first-order differentiation of the two-dimensional image can be expressed by the difference from the image obtained by shifting the image pixel by one pixel, it is given by
- the image sharpness G is indicated by the root mean square of each component of x and y expressed by the following equation.
- the average image sharpness is the average image sharpness
- the standard deviation of the image sharpness of the two-dimensional image is used as an index indicating the sharpness of the image of the image. Using this image sharpness, an appropriate set value is determined as an index for evaluating the defocus of the electron beam or the depth of focus.
- FIG. 6 is an explanatory view showing one embodiment of the charged particle device of the present invention having an optical system capable of changing the electron beam irradiation angle without changing the probe size of the electron beam irradiated on the sample. is there.
- three stages of converging lenses are provided in front of the aberration corrector. With this configuration, it is possible to change the irradiation angle while maintaining a state where the virtual light source size of the electron gun is constant.
- the third converging lens 26 may be an electron lens mounted on an aberration corrector. The excitation intensity of the converging electron lens is given by changing the value of the current applied to the electromagnet coil. Since the other configuration shown in FIG. 6 is based on the system diagram shown in FIG. 1, detailed description is omitted.
- FIG. 7 is an explanatory view showing one embodiment of the charged particle apparatus of the present invention having an optical system that can arbitrarily change the irradiation angle of the electron beam irradiated on the sample by changing the aperture diameter of the aperture. is there.
- a feature of this configuration is that the diaphragm 27 inserted into the converging lens has a plurality of hole diameters. This configuration makes it possible to change the irradiation angle while maintaining the electron beam probe size under conditions that are not affected by diffraction aberrations. A larger number of types of hole diameters to be mounted on the diaphragm makes it possible to set various irradiation angle settings. Since the other configuration shown in FIG. 7 is based on the system diagram shown in FIG. 1, detailed description thereof is omitted.
- the feature of this configuration is that the position information of the two-dimensional scanning image obtained by the image calculation device 20 and the setting of the irradiation angle of the electron beam probe are associated by the signal synchronization device 19 and the irradiation angle is adjusted to the optimum value in units of pixels. That is, the first to third converging lenses 24, 25, and 26 can be controlled.
- the irradiation angle for each pixel set in advance is recorded with respect to the position information of the pixel unit of the two-dimensional scanned image, and the first to third converging lenses are controlled by the pixel, and the irradiation angle 1, In another pixel, the first to third converging lenses can be controlled to set the irradiation angle 2.
- the electron beam probe can be observed by dynamically changing the irradiation angle while scanning the sample, so that the structure inside the sample can also be observed with the electron beam while observing the atomic image of the sample surface with high resolution. It is possible to observe while maintaining the probe diameter.
- the focus position is fixed to the surface position of the sample, and the primary electron beam is scanned. This is because if the primary electron focus position is changed to the inside of the sample, the appearance of the image will be different.
- step S001 initial conditions of the charged particle device are set.
- the irradiation angle ⁇ is set to the initial value ⁇ ini
- the electron beam defocus step amount is set to DFS
- the defocus end point is set to FFIN.
- step S002 based on the conditions set in S001, a two-dimensional secondary electron image generated by scanning an electron beam on the sample to be observed is digitally recorded.
- the defocus amount is added by the defocus step amount DFS in step S003.
- step S005 the second-order differential value expressed by Equation 6 is calculated as the image sharpness in pixel units for each pixel unit of the two-dimensional secondary electron digital image to obtain the structure depth DPT.
- an image sharpness evaluation value table recording the evaluation results of the pixel position, defocus, and image sharpness as shown in FIG. 16 is prepared.
- step S006 the structure depth DPT and the focal depth Z DOP are made to correspond to each other, and the focal depth Z DOF for each pixel is set.
- step S007 the previously acquired on the basis of the relationship between the calculated illumination angle ⁇ and the depth of focus Z DOF, it gives the optimum value of the irradiation angle ⁇ of each pixel.
- step S008 the excitation current of the convergent lens is set based on the ⁇ setting value for each pixel.
- the setting from step S006 to S008 will be described with reference to FIGS.
- FIG. 17 is a two-dimensional digitized secondary electron image.
- the Z DOF evaluated in step S006 is associated with each pixel.
- FIG. 18 is a table in which the optimum depth of focus, irradiation angle, and convergence lens current are recorded for each pixel.
- the numerical values calculated in S007 and S008 are recorded in the table shown in FIG.
- step S009 the electron beam is scanned, and a secondary electron image is taken and recorded while giving a convergence lens excitation current value suitable for the irradiation angle ⁇ set as shown in FIG. 18 for each pixel.
- FIG. 12 is a schematic diagram showing the configuration of an incident electron beam, generated sample forward scattered electrons, secondary electrons and their detectors, and a sample composed of two kinds of elements A and B observed at an atomic resolution magnification. It is explanatory drawing which showed the difference in the contrast by the secondary electron image of an image, and a sample forward scattered electron image.
- the incident primary electron beam 2 interacts with the sample 15 to generate secondary electrons 14.
- Elastic scattered electrons due to Rutherford scattering in the sample are detected by a sample forward scattered electron detector. This is referred to as the sample forward scattered electrons 28.
- the sample forward scattered electrons 28 When the angle incident on the front electron detector, that is, the scattering angle capture angle is large, the contrast depends on the sample atomic number called Z contrast.
- FIG. 13 shows the relationship between the sample atomic number of the Z contrast image and the image contrast. Since the image contrast is generally proportional to approximately the square of the sample atomic number Z, the element can be identified when a different element exists. As shown in FIG. 12, when a material composed of element A and element B having different element numbers in the sample is enlarged to a magnification that can identify atoms using a scanning electron microscope, the contrast of the secondary electron image is the contrast by the element number. Since there is almost no change of A, the A element and the B element cannot be distinguished. Here, it is assumed that the A element is heavy and the B element is light. In FIG.
- the elements are indicated by black dots for the sake of illustration, but in the actual magnified image, the black and white are reversed. That is, heavier elements are displayed in white.
- the irradiation angle of the irradiation electron beam can be adjusted by adjusting the diameter of the diaphragm 4, and the depth of focus changes.
- Another characteristic of the secondary electron image is that the depth of focus is shallower than that of the sample forward scattered electrons when observed at the same irradiation angle. Therefore, the focus of the element on the sample surface layer or the fine structure on the order of 1 nm existing on the sample surface layer is adjusted by the secondary electron enlarged image.
- FIG. 14 shows a secondary electron image and a sample forward scattered electron image of a sample image consisting of two types of A element and B element observed at a magnification of atomic resolution, and a secondary electron atom image is discriminated by a sample forward scattered electron.
- a forward scattered electron image acquired simultaneously with the secondary electron image is synthesized by a signal mixer. Since the same atom can be seen in any electronic image, the signal mixer can adjust the positions of the images based on the same atom.
- the image calculation device is used to relate the constituent elements in the sample so that the contrast becomes one-to-one.
- the secondary electron image is colored using the contrast of the forward scattered electron image to form an element-dependent secondary electron image.
- Electron gun 2 Primary electron beam 3 Converging lens system 4 Aperture 5 Aberration corrector 6
- Electron beam scanner 7 Objective lens 8 Upper secondary electron detector 9 Lower secondary electron detector 10
- Sample stage drive mechanism 11 Projection lens 12
- Forward scattering Electron detector 13 Transmission electron detector 14
- Secondary electron 15 Sample 16
- Focus variable device 17 Scanning signal generator 18
- Signal mixer 19 Signal synchronization device 20
- Image operation device 21 Image recording device 22
- Image display device 23 Tapered structure sample 24
- Second convergent lens 26 Third convergent lens 27
- Forward scattered electrons 29 Transmitted electrons 30
- Sample scanning image focus series 31 Sample reconstruction image
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試料前方散乱電子はその散乱角の取り込み角度が大きい場合には、「Zコントラスト」と呼ばれるコントラストが試料の原子番号Zの2乗に比例したコントラストを得ることができる。この像は原子核によるラザフォード散乱に起因するものであり、入射電子線のサイズと試料原子のサイズとのコンボリューションで示される。従って入射電子のスポット径に応じて像分解能が決定される。
試料前方散乱電子、および透過電子による結像は平面的な情報しか得ることができない。また、奥行き方向に厚さを持つ試料の場合には、試料を透過または前方散乱した電子による信号像のため、電子線の入射方向に対して奥行き方向に存在する構造や異なる組成からなる部分も重畳してしまう。そのため、場合によっては不要な信号が観察されてしまう問題があった。
二次電子像における像分解能は、電子線プローブサイズと試料内電子拡散の二つの事象の合成による。
3次元表面構造の観察、すなわちトポグラフィックな観察手法としては二次電子を用いた観察手法が従来から用いられてきた。従来の二次電子像では、二次電子は材料に依存するが、試料表層の2~10nm程度の深さから放出される。放出電子はLambertの照明法則と同様なコサイン角度分布にしたがい、試料エッジ部からの信号強度が強くなる効果などにより、試料表面形態に依存したコントラストが得られることが特徴である。このように、二次電子像は試料の3次元情報を強く反映する。
ステップS001にて荷電粒子装置の初期条件を設定する。ここでは、焦点ずれ量の初期値としてΔf=0、照射角αを初期値αini、電子線のデフォーカスステップ量をDFS、デフォーカスの終点をFFINと設定する。
2 一次電子線
3 収束レンズ系
4 絞り
5 収差補正器
6 電子線走査器
7 対物レンズ
8 上部二次電子検出器
9 下部二次電子検出器
10 試料ステージ駆動機構
11 投影レンズ
12 前方散乱電子検出器
13 透過電子検出器
14 二次電子
15 試料
16 フォーカス可変装置
17 走査信号発生器
18 信号ミキサー
19 信号同期装置
20 画像演算装置
21 画像記録装置
22 画像表示装置
23 テーパー構造試料
24 第1収束レンズ
25 第2収束レンズ
26 第3収束レンズ
27 絞り
28 前方散乱電子
29 透過電子
30 試料走査像フォーカスシリーズ
31 試料再構成像
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- 対物レンズと対物レンズの球面収差を補正する球面収差補正器を搭載する走査電子顕微鏡において、二次電子検出器とフォーカス可変装置とを備え、該二次電子検出器によって得られた複数の原子分解能を有する2次元試料拡大走査像を記録し、該フォーカス可変装置にて設定したフォーカス値で撮影した2次元試料拡大走査像と当該フォーカス値を関連させ、前記複数の2次元試料拡大走査像を重ね合わせて原子分解能の3次元構造拡大像を再構成することを特徴とする走査電子顕微鏡。
- 請求項1記載の走査電子顕微鏡において、フォーカス可変装置として対物レンズ電流を変化させてフォーカスを変化させることを特徴とした走査電子顕微鏡。
- 請求項1記載の走査電子顕微鏡において、フォーカス可変装置として試料ステージの高さを変化させてフォーカスを変化させることを特徴とする走査電子顕微鏡。
- 原子分解能を観察可能な走査透過電子顕微鏡において、二次電子検出器とフォーカス可変装置とを備え、該二次電子検出器によって得られた原子分解能を有する複数の2次元試料拡大走査像を記録し、該フォーカス可変装置にて設定したフォーカス値で撮影した2次元試料拡大走査像とフォーカス値を連携させ、複数の2次元試料拡大走査像を重ね合わせて原子分解能を有する3次元構造拡大像を再構成することを特徴とする走査透過電子顕微鏡。
- 対物レンズと対物レンズの球面収差を補正する球面収差補正器を搭載する走査透過電子顕微鏡において、二次電子検出器と透過電子検出器とフォーカス可変装置とを備え、該二次電子検出器によって得られた複数の原子分解能を有する2次元試料拡大走査像と、透過電子検出器によって得られた複数の前方散乱電子像とを同時に記録し、該フォーカス可変装置にて設定したフォーカス値で撮影した2次元試料拡大走査像と透過電子像とフォーカス値とを関連させ、組成情報を有する原子分解能の3次元構造拡大像を再構成することを特徴とする走査透過電子顕微鏡。
- 請求項5記載の走査透過電子顕微鏡において、前記透過電子検出器は、試料を透過した前方散乱電子を検出し、該フォーカス可変装置にて設定したフォーカス値で撮影した2次元試料拡大走査像と前方散乱電子像とフォーカス値とを関連させ、組成情報を有する原子分解能の3次元構造拡大像を再構成することを特徴とする走査透過電子顕微鏡。
- 対物レンズの球面収差を補正する球面収差補正器を搭載する走査透過電子顕微鏡において、二次電子検出器と、電子線照射角を決める収束レンズと、フォーカス可変装置とを備え、該二次電子検出器によって得られた複数の原子分解能を有する2次元試料拡大走査像を記録し、収束レンズの励磁電流を変えて焦点深度を変化させて試料最表面と試料内部の構造の両方を同時に観察することを特徴とする走査透過電子顕微鏡。
- 対物レンズの球面収差を補正する球面収差補正器を搭載する走査電子顕微鏡において、二次電子検出器と、電子線照射角を決める絞りと、フォーカス可変装置とを備え、該二次電子検出器によって得られた複数の原子分解能を有する2次元試料拡大走査像を記録し、絞りの径を変えて焦点深度を変化させて試料最表面と試料内部の構造の両方を同時に観察することを特徴とする走査透過電子顕微鏡。
- 請求項7の走査透過電子顕微鏡において、前記2次元試料拡大走査像の画像鮮鋭度で試料内部構造の深さを計測することができる走査透過電子顕微鏡。
- 請求項8の走査透過電子顕微鏡において、前記2次元試料拡大走査像の画像鮮鋭度で試料内部構造の深さを計測することができる走査透過電子顕微鏡。
- 請求項7記載の走査透過電子顕微鏡において、収束レンズの励磁電流の組合せで電子線のプローブサイズを変化させることなく焦点深度を変化させることができる走査透過電子顕微鏡。
- 請求項8記載の走査透過電子顕微鏡において、絞りサイズを変化させると電子線プローブサイズを変化させずに焦点深度を変化させることができる走査透過電子顕微鏡。
- 請求項1記載の走査透過電子顕微鏡において、テーパー状構造を有する試料を搭載した走査透過電子顕微鏡。
- 請求項7記載の走査透過電子顕微鏡において、テーパー状構造を有する試料を搭載した走査透過電子顕微鏡。
- 対物レンズの球面収差を補正する球面収差補正器を搭載する走査透過電子顕微鏡において、二次電子検出器と、電子線照射角を決める収束レンズと、フォーカス可変装置とを備え、該二次電子検出器によって得られた複数の原子分解能を有する2次元試料拡大走査像を記録し、収束レンズの励磁電流を変えて焦点深度を変化させて試料最表面と試料内部の構造の両方を同時に観察可能であり、試料に照射する電子線をデフォーカスさせて、試料内部に存在する構造の深さを計測し、最適焦点深度を求めることを特徴とする走査透過電子顕微鏡。
- 請求項15記載の走査透過電子顕微鏡において、
ピクセル単位の画像鮮鋭度を求め、試料内部に存在する構造の深さを計測し、最適焦点深度を求め、試料内部構造の深さを計測することを特徴とする走査透過電子顕微鏡。 - 請求項16記載の走査透過電子顕微鏡において、
試料内部構造の深さを計測し、ピクセル毎の画像鮮鋭度評価結果を2次元画像と関連付けて取得することを特徴とする走査透過電子顕微鏡。 - 請求項16記載の走査透過電子顕微鏡において、
ピクセル毎の画像鮮鋭度評価結果を2次元画像内に持たせ、ピクセル毎の最適焦点深度と電子線照射角、各収束レンズ電流設定テーブルを持つことを特徴とする走査透過電子顕微鏡。 - 対物レンズと対物レンズの球面収差を補正する球面収差補正器を搭載する走査電子顕微鏡において、二次電子検出器とフォーカス可変装置とを備え、該二次電子検出器によって得られた原子分解能を有する二次電子試料拡大走査像を記録し、同時に試料前方散乱電子の試料拡大走査像を記録し、該試料前方散乱電子のコントラストを解析し、二次電子試料拡大走査像に組成起因のコントラストを与えることができる走査透過電子顕微鏡。
- 原子分解能を観察できる走査透過電子顕微鏡において、二次電子検出器とフォーカス可変装置とを備え、該二次電子検出器によって得られた原子分解能を有する二次電子試料拡大走査像を記録し、同時に試料前方散乱電子の試料拡大走査像を記録し、該試料前方散乱電子のコントラストを解析し、二次電子試料拡大走査像に組成起因のコントラストを与えることができる走査透過電子顕微鏡。
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