Patent ID: 8058614

Claim:
A method of manufacturing an object having miniaturized structures, the method comprising: (a) processing the object by supplying process gas to a surface of the object, and directing an electron beam to a processing location on the surface of the object, for at least one of depositing material on the object and ablating material from the object; and (b) inspecting the object by scanning the surface the object with the electron beam and supplying backscattered electrons and secondary electrons, generated by the scanning electron beam, to an energy selector, separating the backscattered electrons from the secondary electrons by the energy selector, detecting backscattered electrons separated from the secondary electrons by the energy selector, and generating an electron microscopic image of the scanned surface based on the detected backscattered electrons; and (c) performing one of (i) repeating the processing and the inspecting of the object, and (ii) stopping further processing and inspecting of the object, based on an analysis of the generated electron microscopic image of the object.