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SUPPRESSION OF EMISSION NOISE FOR MICROCOLUMN APPLICATIONS IN ELECTRON BEAM INSPECTION
SUPPRESSION OF EMISSION NOISE FOR MICROCOLUMN APPLICATIONS IN ELECTRON BEAM INSPECTION
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机译:电子束检测中微柱应用中的发射噪声抑制
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The mircocolumn configuration of the present invention provides for emission noise reduction through the use of a screened beam-limiting aperture for monitoring the electron beam current. This novel approach utilizes a screening aperture located between the emitter and the beam-limiting aperture, which screening aperture collects most of the current transmitted by the first lens of the electron beam column. In order to achieve good noise suppression, the screening aperture should let through only the portion of the beam where the electrons are correlated. The current collected by the beam-limiting aperture is then used as a reference signal in the image processing. The elimination of this noise increases the detection sensitivity of an inspection tool. This reduces the total number of required pixels and therefore increases the throughput of the tool.
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