Patent ID: 8087379

Claim:
A processing system, comprising: a vacuum for containing a work piece; a plasma system for processing the work piece in the vacuum chamber, the plasma system including; a plasma chamber; a gas entrance for introducing an unionized gas to be ionized in the plasma chamber; and an aperture for extracting a jet of plasma from the plasma chamber; a reactive gas chamber positioned to receive at least a portion of the jet of plasma from the plasma chamber, and having a second aperture for extracting a jet of an activated reactive gas directly into the vacuum chamber including the work piece, and a reactive gas entrance, for introducing into the reactive gas chamber an unionized, unactivated reactive gas to be activated by the plasma jet from the plasma chamber; a focused ion beam system for directing a focused beam of ions toward the work piece in the vacuum chamber; a secondary particle detector for detecting secondary or backscattered particles generated from the impact of the ion beam onto the surface of the work piece; and a work piece holder for holding the work piece to be processed by the focused ion beam or to be impacted by the jet of activated reactive gas from the reactive gas chamber for processing the work piece, the processing system capable of processing the work piece by the ion beam or by the reactive jet without removing the work piece from the vacuum chamber.