Patent ID: 11972923
Assignee: FEI COMPANY
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC H

Claim 11:
12. A non-transitory computer readable media that stores instructions that, when executed by a processor, causes the processor to initiate the performance of the steps:
translating a sample manipulator so that it is proximate to a sample, wherein the portion of the sample manipulator proximate to the sample is composed of a high sputter yield material; and
milling, with a charged particle beam, the high sputter yield material such that portions of the high sputter yield material is removed from the sample manipulator, and wherein at least some of the removed high sputter yield material redeposits to form an attachment between the sample manipulator and the sample,
wherein the sample manipulator comprises an intermediate body attached to a probe, and wherein the intermediate body is composed of the high sputter yield material,
wherein the intermediate body is attached to the probe portion of the sample manipulator via gas deposition, and
wherein the high sputter yield material corresponds to a rate of emission of greater than 5 atoms per ion when the high sputter yield material is irradiated with a 30 kV focused ion beam.