Patent ID: 8791423

Claim:
A charged particle beam device comprising: a charged particle source; an illumination lens configured to adjust an amount of a beam of charged particles emitted by the charged particle source; a projection lens configured to project the charged particles that have passed through a specimen, onto detection means; a first objective lens; an aberration correction device; and a second objective lens, wherein the first objective lens, the aberration correction device, and the second objective lens are disposed in this order between the illumination lens and the projection lens, and wherein the aberration correction device comprises: a first multipole lens disposed adjacent to the illumination lens; a second multipole lens disposed adjacent to the projection lens; a plurality of first transfer lenses disposed between the first and second multipole lenses and configured to transfer, to the second multipole lens, a coma-free condition of the first objective lens disposed adjacent to the illumination lens; a plurality of second transfer lenses disposed so as to be closer to the illumination lens than the first multipole lens and configured to transfer the coma-free condition of the first objective lens to the first multipole lens; and a third transfer lens disposed so as to be closer to the projection lens than the second multipole lens and configured to correct a fifth-order spherical aberration of the second objective lens disposed adjacent to the projection lens; wherein the first and second objective lenses are an objective lens for transmission electron microscope (TEM) and an objective lens for scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM), respectively, and a specimen stage for TEM is disposed adjacent to the objective lens for TEM, and a specimen stage for STEM is disposed adjacent to the objective lens for STEM.