Patent ID: 8558173

Claim:
An electron beam apparatus equipped with a review function of a sample, comprising: a scanning electron microscope to obtain a signal of secondary electrons or reflected electrons generated by irradiation of a sample with an electron beam; an information processing apparatus to process an image based on the signal obtained from the scanning electron microscope; and a storage for storing the image; wherein the information processing apparatus is configured to: receive positional information of a defect on the sample from a different inspection apparatus that incorporates an electron beam inspection apparatus, the positional information being obtained by comparing patterns and an inspection condition of the different inspection apparatus; display the inspection condition on a graphical user interface; retrieve an image of a position on the sample corresponding to the positional information of the defect, with higher resolution than an image including the defect that the different inspection apparatus retrieves, by selecting a review mode from a plurality of review modes including a voltage contrast mode based on the displayed inspection condition of the different inspection apparatus, the image being retrieved from the storage or as a result of scanning the defect with the selected review mode; and classify the image depending on the type of defect selected from the group consisting of electrical defect and figure defect.