The design and performance of a new Electron Microprobe Auger Spectrometer (EMAS) with the capability of UHV scanning electron microscope (SEM) is described.
The incident electron beam from a W-hairpin cathode is focused by a magnetic lens system, and spatial resolution is below 0.5 μm for the Auger analysis mode and on the order of 100 Å in the SEM mode. The vacuum of the specimen chamber is kept at 10
-9 Torr order during Auger analysis.
Furthermore, an improvement of a spatial resolution is made to 700 Å by replacing W-hairpin cathode to a LaB
6 cathode and introducing a pulse counter and signal processor in place of a conventional lock-in amplifier. Several examples of application are presented demonstrating the performance.
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