Patent ID: 8073242

Claim:
A method for creating an imaging recipe to image a specimen by using a scanning electron microscope, the method comprising: an input step for entering a position of an evaluation point on the specimen having a circuit pattern formed on the surface thereof, and design data of the circuit pattern around the evaluation point; an evaluation point imaging position error evaluation step for evaluating, on the basis of the entered position of the evaluation point and the entered design data of the circuit pattern around the evaluation point, a tolerance for an imaging position error at the evaluation point; an addressing evaluation step for evaluating, on the basis of the entered position of the evaluation point and the entered design data of the circuit pattern around the evaluation point, a value predicted of the imaging position error at the evaluation point when any region on the design data of the circuit pattern is defined as an addressing point; and a determination step for determining, as the imaging recipe, positions of adjusting points each including at least the addressing point, or an imaging sequence or imaging parameters or adjusting methods for each adjusting point, on the basis of a relationship between the tolerance for the imaging position error at the evaluation point, the tolerance having been evaluated in the step of evaluating the imaging position error at the evaluation point, and the predicted value of the imaging position error at the evaluation point, the predicted value having been evaluated in the addressing evaluation step.