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The invention relates to a microbeam probe in which a test surface is subjected to an intense beam of ions or electrons and the resulting secondary particles are analysed. An apparatus is provided in which a common electrostatic lens of short focal length acts as an objective for the primary beam and also as a collecting lens for the secondary particles. The common lens comprises two rotationally symmetrical lenses of short focal length in series with an apertured diaphragm between them.
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i451 oci. 29, 1974 United States Patent mi Liebl Emmasingel.........
Gottingen, Germany May l0, 1973 Primary Examiner-James w. Lawrence [22] Filed:
A L N n. 358,970 Assistant Examiner-8. C. Anderson pp o Attorney, Agent, or Firm-Brisebois & Kruger [30] Foreign Application Priority Data May l2, i972 ABSTRACT The invention relates to a microbeam probe in which a test surface is subjected to an intense beam of ions Germany.........,.,..........., 2223367 [52] U.S. Z50/309, 250/3l0, Z50/398 or electrons and the resulting secondary particles are [5i] im. H011 37/26 25u/309,310, 311, 396,
analysed. An apparatus is provided in which a common electrostatic lens of short focal length acts as an objective for the primary beam and also as a collecting le [58] Field of Search ns for the secondary particles. The common lens [56] References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS comprises two rotationally symmetrical lenses of short focal length in series with an apertured diaphragm between them.
250/3l l Z50/3l l 25o/3l! 6 Claims, 4 Drawing Figures 2,241,432 5/1941 Ardenne et 2,330,930 [0,/1943 Snyder.................. 2 356 515 8/l944 Ruska m my :DMENIEU um 29 um SMU 10F 4 MICROBEAM PROBE APPARATUS The present invention relates to a microbeam probe, that is to say a device in which a desired portion (test field) of the surface of an object to be examined (test sample) is bombarded with an intensely concentrated beam of particles (electron beam or ion beam), and in which the secondary particles evaporated or otherwise released from the surface are delivered to an analyzing device, which consists in general of a mass spectrometer or the like. A microbeam probe usually includes a particle source, which delivers a substantially parallel, or possibly slightly divergent beam of primary rays (the angle ofdivergence being, for example, smaller than and preferably smaller than about l), an objective with at least one microbeam optical lens for focussing the primary bundle of rays upon a small test field ofthe surface to be investigated, and an electrode arrange ment, whereby the secondary particles which are generated in the test field by the bundle of primary rays may reach the analyzing device.
In the known microbeam probes the secondary particles which are to be investigated are in general acceler ated away from the test field in a lateral direction (that is to say along a path which forms an angle to the axis of the primary beam) (see, for example, German Offenlegungschrift l,937,482). On this account the distance between the objective and the test sample, and therefore also the focal length of the objective, must be relatively large in order to allow space for accommodating the electrode arrangement of the secondary beam optical system, accelerating the secondary particles away from the test field and making it possible for these to be completely detected (quantitatively). On the other hand however it is desirable to make the focal length of the objective as small as possible, this being for two reasons. In the first place the degree of reduction achievable by the objective is the greater, the shorter is the focal length, this reduction being in fact the ratio of the diameter of the primary particle source, or of the region of smallest cross section of the bundle of primary rays (crossover point, intermediate focus) and the diameter of the test sample impinged upon by the primary beam. Secondly, in the case of a microbeam lens, in particular an electrostatic lens, its spherical aberration decreases with the focal length, that is to say as the focal length decreases the space angle increases, from which the primary particles can be focussed into a test field ofdesired diameter, and accord ingly the greater becomes the current density in the test fieldA Accordingly the present invention takes as its basic purpose the provision of a microbeam probe having an objective of substantially shorter focal length than that of the known microbeam probes without detracting from a comprehensive quantitative detection of the charged secondary particles and the transfer thereof into an analyzing device.
According to the present invention this problem is solved by a microbeam probe of the above mentioned type in which the objective comprises two rotationally symmetrical electrostatic lenses of short focal length arranged in series and an intervening apertured diaphragm; these lenses as well as the surface to be investigated being so dimensioned and arranged with respect to the energy of the beam of primary particles that this beam is focussed onto the test field by the combined action of the electrical fields of the objective whilst tJi the diaphragm functions as an aperture diaphragm for the primary' beam. At the same time the secondary particles generated in the test field are focussed in the aperture of the apertured diaphragm by the further lens constituted by the electrodes of the second lens of the objective and the conductive surface, and are also collimated by the first lens of the objective to form an at least substantially parallel beam of secondary particles, which latter beam leaves the objective in a direction which is substantially opposite to that of the bundle of primary rays, and between the primary beam source and the objective there is arranged a device for generating a deflecting field, which separates the primary beam from the secondary beam by virtue of the different acceleration voltages of the particles of these beams.
By the expression lens of short focal length" there is to be understood preferably a lens whose focal length is of the same order of magnitude as the free diameter of the bored electrodes associated with the lens.
Therefore, in the microbeam probe according to the present invention the secondary particles are accelerated opposite to the direction of the primary beam and are delivered to the analyzing device by the same electrodes which also form the objective for the primary beam. Because an intermediate focus or crossover region of the secondary ray beam lies in the plane of the diaphragm defining the aperture of the primary beam, a high intensity of the secondary beam is ensured. The objective of the microbeam probe according to the present invention can have a focal length of 5 mm and less, whilst an objective focal length of less than 30 mm cannot be obtained with the known microbeam probes operating with secondary particle analysis. Having regard to the achievable reduction and the acceptable space angle, the microbeam probe according to the invention represents a substantial advance over the state of the art.
The microbeam probe is not restricted to a particular sign of the particles, but on the contrary, given suitable poling ofthe bias voltages, can operate with an electron beam as well as with a primary ion beam, and independently thereof can detect positive or negative secondary particles.
Further extensions and modifications of the invention are characterised in the subordinate claims.
A practical example of the invention will be explained in more detail with reference to the accompa nying drawings, in which FIG. l is a somewhat simplified, partly cut away, side elevation of the electrode system ofa microbeam probe according to one practical example of the invention;
FIG4 2 is a sectional elevation of the objective and a portion of an adjacent spherical condenser of the microbeam probe according to FIG. l on an enlarged scale as compared thereto;
FIG. 3 is a still further enlarged cross sectional elevation ofa part of the objective of the microbeam according to FIG. l and 2; and
FIG. 4 is a sectional elevation of a part of the objective of the microbeam probe according to FIGS. l to 3, somewhat expanded in the horizontal direction as compared with FIG. 3, and with an indication of the path of the primary beam and the secondary beam.
The electrode system represented in FIG. l is in practice arranged in an evacuable vacuum vessel, which is accessible through a lock, through which there may be introduced an object having the surface to be investigated. The electrode system contains a primary beam source l which is indicated only schematically, which can be designed in any known manner and which delivers a primary beam l2 of ions or electrons. The primary beam has a region of minimum cross section determined by the primary ray source or a crossover region (intermediate focus) of the primary beam, which by means of a microbeam optical objective, shown only schematically at 14 in FIG. l, is imaged upon a surface I6 of a test object which is to be investigated. The test field bombarded by the primary beam l2 can be scanned in known manner by two sets I8 and 20 of electrostatic deflecting plates effecting a raster type deflection over the surface to be investigated (like the motion of the electron beam over the picture screen of a television tube).
The objective comprises three mutually insulated bored electrodes 22, 24 and 26, as may be seen particularly from FIG. 3. The test surface I6 to be examined, which should be electrically conductive or coated with a conducting layer, is arranged closely adjacent under the bore of the electrode 22 at the object side. When using a primary ray beam consisting of ions, the electrode 26 is preferably placed at earth potential (U3 0), the electrode 24 is placed at high voltage (for example U2 -20 kV), the electrode 22 at a relatively low voltage (for example U, 50UV) and the test surface I6 is placed at the potential which should correspond to the exit energy of the secondary particles (for example U +I kV).
The potential values and signs given here as an example will apply when positive secondary particles are to be investigated.
The fields 28 and 30 here schematically represented between on the one hand the electrodes 26 and 24, and on the other hand the electrodes 24 and 22, function as condenser lenses. By suitable choice of the ratio of U2 to the energy of the primary ray beam l2, the result can be achieved that the primary' ray beam is focussed upon the test surface I6 by the combined action of these two lenses 24-26 and 22-24, as is represented in FIG. 4. This condition can be achieved both for positive as well as for negative primary particles in the energy range between about and 25kV. Between the two lenses there is situated within the relatively thick electrode 24 a short space which is free of field. In this position there is arranged an apertured diaphragm 32 with a fine opening 34, which serves for defining the aperture of the primary beam l2. The arrangement of the apertured diaphragm is most favourable at this position, because under the conditions of the raster type deflection of the primary beam the deviation of the beam path from the lens axis remains small in both lenses4 In respect of the secondary particles (that is to say ions in the example here considered), which proceed from the test fields 36 (FIG. 4) impinged upon by the focussed primary beam, the conducting surface 16, the electrode 22 and the electrode 24 function as an electrostatic lens in the form of a triode system, whose field can be so adjusted by suitable choice of potential of the electrode 22 that the secondary beam emitted from the test field I6 is focussed in a crossover region, which lies in the plane, that is to say the aperture 34, of the diaphragm 32. The magnitude of the aperture 34 determines the maximum possible exploration field of the test surface 16, that is to say the field under view. So long as one remains within this field of view, all of the secondary particles pass with adequate initial energies through the diaphragm 32. In respect of the secondary ions, the field between the electrodes 24 and 26 functions as a retarding immersion lens, whose lower focal plane coincides with the plane of the apertured diaphragm 32. Because the secondary beam has a crossover region at this position, the beam is formed by this lens into a parallel beam. By virtue of the raster type of deflection of the primary beam, there takes place a corresponding periodic angular deflection of this parallel beam. This can be removed, in respect of one deflection coordinate, by a electrical field E between the two auxiliary deflection plates 38 synchronised with the raster deflection, so that the emerging secondary beam 40 (FIG. 4) only moves parallel to itself. The same applies for the other coordinate of the raster deflection, which is compensated by a field between auxiliary deflecting plates 42.
It is possible to employ either positive or negative primary particles, and independently thereof positive or negative secondary particles can be brought out for analysis. The poling of the bias voltages at the electrodes 22 and 24 and the test surface 16 depends upon the sign of the secondary particles which are used. The poling is so selected that the secondary particles are accelerated between the surface I6 and the electrode 24. When investigating positive secondary ions, the electrode 24 therefore receives a negative bias voltage with respect to the surface I6, whilst in the case of investigation of negative secondary ions or secondary electrons, the electrode 24 must be positive with respect to the surface 16. The condition that the primary beam must be focussed upon the test surface, permits of fulfilment in both cases and for primary particles of both signs (positive or negative ions, electrons), by suitable choice of the energy of the particles, that is to say the accelerating voltage.
From FIG. 2 it is clear how the objective can be constructed from the mechanical viewpoint. For the purpose of mutual electrical insulation of the metal parts forming the three electrodes 22, 24 and 26, there is provided a single insulator 44, which includes a flangelike portion, which mutually insulates the electrodes 22 and 26, and an annular portion with an inwardly projecting edge, in which the electrode 24 is seated in an insulated manner. For the sake of clearness the leads to the electrodes are not shown. The effective portion of the electrode 22 has the shape of a comparatively thin plate (FIG. 3), whilst the electrode 24 is comparativelyl thick. The bore of the electrode 24 has, at its object side, a cylindrical part 46 of smaller diameter and a contiguous portion 48 of larger diameter. At the step formed between the two parts 46 and 48 there is positioned the diaphragm 32 in the form of a disc. The electrode 26 has the shape of a tube. with a somewhat constricted end and contains the auxiliary deflecting plates 38, 42. The objective may, as shown in FIG. 2, contain a light microscopic device of the black screen type for observing the surface I6 under test. The observation device comprises, in a known manner, an annular concave mirror 48, a convex mirror 50, which includes a bore for the beam of particles, and a similarly bored deflecting mirror S2. The path taken by the light beam 54 is shown in FIGS. 2 and 3. The known observation devices of this type cannot however be directly employed in the presently described microbeam probe on account of the short focal length objective and the correspondingly small electrode spacing distances. Accordingly, in the presently described microbeam probe the light ray beam is deflected in the manner shown in FIG. 3 by means of two reflecting surfaces 56 and S8 which are either formed by the upper side of the electrode 22 and the under side of the electrode 24 respectively or are arranged upon said electrodes, so that the beam can pass from the concave mirror 48 through the aperture of the electrode 22. The electrode 24 is provided with cavities 60 of ring sector shape for the light beam.
The separation of the primary beam 12 and the secondary beam 40 can be effected externally of the objective, for example, by means of a spherical condenser 62 (a condenser with plates in the form of portions of spherical surfaces), which deflects the secondary beam 40 emitted by the objective 14 out of the path ofthe primary beam l2, which condenser may, for example, be the constituent part of a double focussing mass spectrometer (see for example German Offenlegungschrift 2,031,8l l The outer plate ofthe spherical condenser 62 has a bore 64 proceeding in the direction of the objective axis, through which the primary beam l2 enters. Because the energy of the primary beam l2 is substantially greater than that of the secondary beam 40, the primary beam suffers only a slight deflection in passing along the short length of path through the spherical condenser 62, which deflection can be compensated by applying a suitable bias voltage to the pair of deflecting plates 20.
The lens fields 28 and 30 (FIG. 3) operate upon the primary beam like a composite objective, which in the practical example here represented has a focal length of about 5 mm, The known types of microbeam probe, which work upon secondary particle analysis, have focal lengths of at least 30 mm. Thus the presently described microbeam probe represents a substantial technical advance as compared with the state of the art.
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l. A microbeam probe apparatus comprising an ion or an electron particle source (l0) for producing an essentially collimated primary beam (12) of charged particles having a relatively high energy,
a charged particle objective system including first and second sets of electrodes (26, 24-24, 22) to produce first and second electrostatic lens fields of short focal lengths in first and second areas of space respectively, said fields being positioned to be transversed by the path of said primary beam 12 in the order named` a diaphragm (32) having a fine aperture (34) positioned between said first and second areas of space,
a conductive surface (16) comprising a sample area to be investigated positioned in spaced relationship near said second set of electrodes on the side thereof, remote from said first set,
means for biasing said electrodes of said first and second sets, and said conductive surface to a. produce first and second electrostatic lens fields which cooperate to focus said primary beam through said aperture (34) into a small spot on said sample area,
b. cause secondary charged particles, which emerge from said sample area under the action of said primary beam to accelerate towards said second set of electrodes, and be focused by said second lens field into a focus area within said aperture (34),
c. and collimate said secondary particles passing through said opening into a secondary beam (40) of relatively low energy traveling in a direction essentially opposite to that of said primary beam (l2), and
deflecting means (62) acting on said primary and secondary beams to deflect said relatively low energy secondary beam (40) away from the path of said primary beam while leaving said relatively high energy primary beam essentially unaffected.
2. The apparatus according to claim 1 wherein said first set of electrodes comprises first and second apertured electrodes (26, 24) transversed by the path of the primary beam (12) in the order named', said second set of electrodes comprises said second electrode (24) and a third apertured electrode (22) transversed by the path of said primary beam l2 in the order named; said second electrode having a substantial thickness in the direction of said beam path to form a substantially field-free space within its aperture; said aperture diaphragm (32) being positioned within said field-free space.
3. Apparatus according to claim 1 wherein said first electrode (26) is of annular shape; said second electrode (24) has the form ofa relatively thick plate which has a bore having a portion of large diameter facing said first electrode, and a contiguous annular portion of smaller diameter, and said third electrode (22) has the shape of an apertured relatively thin plate.
4. Apparatus according to claim 3 in which the apertured diaphragm (32) is positioned between the two cylindrical parts of the second electrode.
5. Apparatus according to claim 1 further including first deflecting means positioned to deflect the primary beam across said sample surface, and second, auxiliary deflecting means positioned near said objective system between said objective system and said first deflecting means to compensate for lateral shifts of said primary beam caused by said first deflecting means.
6. Apparatus according to claim l further comprising a light-optical system of the Schwarzschild type for observing said sample area of said surface; said lightoptical system comprising a first reflecting surface (56) on the side of the third electrode (22) facing said second electrode (24), and a second reflecting surface (58) on the side of said second electrode (24) facing said third electrode (22) to deflect a light beam extending from said sample area to an observer.
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1. A microbeam probe apparatus comprising an ion or an electron particle source (10) for producing an essentially collimated primary beam (12) of charged particles having a relatively high energy, a charged particle objective system including first and second sets of electrodes (26, 24-24, 22) to produce first and second electrostatic lens fields of short focal lengths in first and second areas of space respectively, said fields being positioned to be transversed by the path of said primary beam 12 in the order named, a diaphragm (32) having a fine aperture (34) positioned between said first and second areas of space, a conductive surface (16) comprising a sample area to be investigated positioned in spaced relationship near said second set of electrodes on the side thereof, remote from said first set, means for biasing said electrodes of said first and second sets, and said conductive surface to a. produce first and second electrostatic lens fields which cooperate to focus said primary beam through said aperture (34) into a small spot on said sample area, b. cause secondary charged particles, which emerge from said sample area under the action of said primary beam to accelerate towards said second set of electrodes, and be focused by said second lens field into a focus area within said aperture (34), c. and collimate said secondary particles passing through said opening into a secondary beam (40) of relatively low energy traveling in a direction essentially opposite to that of said primary beam (12), and deflecting means (62) acting on said primary and secondary beams to deflect said relatively low energy secondary beam (40) away from the path of said primary beam while leaving said relatively high energy primary beam essentially unaffected.
2. The apparatus according to claim 1 wherein said first set of electrodes comprises first and second apertured electrodes (26, 24) transversed by the path of the primary beam (12) in the order named; said second set of electrodes comprises said second electrode (24) and a third apertured electrode (22) transversed by the path of said primary beam 12 in the order named; said second electrode having a substantial thickness in the direction of said beam path to form a substantially field-free space within its aperture; said aperture diaphragm (32) being positioned within said field-free space.
3. Apparatus according to claim 1 wherein said first electrode (26) is of annular shape; said second electrode (24) has the form of a relatively thick plate whIch has a bore having a portion of large diameter facing said first electrode, and a contiguous annular portion of smaller diameter, and said third electrode (22) has the shape of an apertured relatively thin plate.
4. Apparatus according to claim 3 in which the apertured diaphragm (32) is positioned between the two cylindrical parts of the second electrode.
5. Apparatus according to claim 1 further including first deflecting means positioned to deflect the primary beam across said sample surface, and second, auxiliary deflecting means positioned near said objective system between said objective system and said first deflecting means to compensate for lateral shifts of said primary beam caused by said first deflecting means.
6. Apparatus according to claim 1 further comprising a light-optical system of the Schwarzschild type for observing said sample area of said surface; said light-optical system comprising a first reflecting surface (56) on the side of the third electrode (22) facing said second electrode (24), and a second reflecting surface (58) on the side of said second electrode (24) facing said third electrode (22) to deflect a light beam extending from said sample area to an observer.
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