Patent ID: 9347969
Filing Date: 2016-05-24
CPC Classification: G01Q,G02B

Claim Text:
1. A compound microscope of an optical microscope and a scanning probe microscope, the compound microscope comprising: a stage to support a sample substrate holding a sample; a cantilever chip comprising a substrate, a cantilever supported by the substrate, a probe provided at a free end of the cantilever; a scanner to hold the cantilever chip so that the probe faces the sample substrate and so that the substrate is inclined with respect to the sample substrate and to three-dimensionally scan the cantilever chip with respect to the sample substrate; a displacement sensor to optically detect the displacement of the cantilever; and an illumination light source to apply illumination light for observation by the optical microscope to the sample through a space between the substrate and the sample substrate, the illumination light source being arranged such that the illumination light is emitted from an end of the substrate opposite to the free end of the cantilever.