Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10428977 | Optik - International Journal for Light and Electron Optics | 2005 | 11 Pages |
Abstract
An automatic aberration correction method has been implemented in scanning electron microscopes (SEM). Necessity of the automatic aberration correction is discussed. The procedure of the automatic aberration correction is explained in detail, where deconvolution techniques are used in order to extract probe information from SEM images. Due to the precise digitization and the usage of proper combinations of correction fields, linearity has been found between the amplitude of each aberration and the corresponding field strength. Experimental results are shown which demonstrate that the aberrations are corrected automatically by a linear feedback control method. After the automatic aberration correction, the image quality has been improved drastically.
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Authors
Shinobu Uno, Kazuhiro Honda, Natsuko Nakamura, Miyuki Matsuya, Joachim Zach,