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An electron beam lithography and digital image acquisition system for scanning electron microscopes
Authors:S RUSSEV  G TSUTSUMANOVA  S ANGELOV  & K BACHEV†
Affiliation:Department of Solid State Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Sofia, 5 J. Bourchier Blvd., 1164 Sofia, Bulgaria;Department of Radiophysics and Electronics, Faculty of Physics, University of Sofia, 5 J. Bourchier Blvd., 1164 Sofia, Bulgaria
Abstract:A low‐cost microcontroller based control and data acquisition unit for digital image recording of scanning electron microscope (SEM) images and scanning electron microscope based electron beam lithography (EBL) is described. The developed microcontroller low‐level embedded software incorporates major time critical functions for image acquisition and electron beam lithography and makes the unit an intelligent module which communicates via USB with the main computer. The system allows recording of images with up to 4096 × 4096 pixel size, different scan modes, controllable dwell time, synchronization with main power frequency, and other user controllable functions. The electron beam can be arbitrary positioned with 12‐bit precision in both dimensions and this is used to extend the scanning electron microscope capabilities for electron beam lithography. Hardware and software details of the system are given to allow its easy duplication. Performance of the system is discussed and exemplary results are presented.
Keywords:Digital image acquisition  electron beam lithography  microcontroller  scanning electron microscopy  Universal Serial Bus
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