Patents by Inventor Bok-lae Cho

Bok-lae Cho has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10312049
    Abstract: A vacuum sample chamber for a particle and optical device includes on one surface thereof, an aperture through which a particle beam to be focused along an optical axis of particles such as electrons, ions and neutral particles is incident; and on the opposite surface thereof, a detachable sample holder through which light penetrates, thereby enabling a sample to be observed and analyzed by means of the particle beam and light. A sample chamber is capable of reducing observation time by maintaining a vacuum therein even when a sample is put into or taken out from a sample chamber of an electron microscope or focused ion beam observation equipment, and capable of obtaining an optical image on the outside thereof without inserting a light source or an optical barrel into the sample chamber. A light-electron fusion microscope comprising the sample chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: KOREA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND SCIENCE
    Inventors: Bok Lae Cho, Sang Jung Ahn, Inho Sul
  • Patent number: 10128077
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electron gun for facilitating position adjustment, and an electron microscope including the same, the electron gun improving a vacuum structure so as to easily move a filament block or an electron tip of an electron gun without having bellows for maintaining a vacuum when the center axis of the filament block or the electron tip of the electron gun is mechanically misaligned with the center axis of a anode and a focusing lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: KOREA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND SCIENCE
    Inventors: Bok Lae Cho, In Young Park
  • Publication number: 20180218874
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electron gun for facilitating position adjustment, and an electron microscope including the same, the electron gun improving a vacuum structure so as to easily move a filament block or an electron tip of an electron gun without having bellows for maintaining a vacuum when the center axis of the filament block or the electron tip of the electron gun is mechanically misaligned with the center axis of a anode and a focusing lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2016
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Applicant: KOREA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND SCIENCE
    Inventors: Bok Lae CHO, In Yong PARK
  • Publication number: 20180158645
    Abstract: A vacuum sample chamber for a particle and optical device includes on one surface thereof, an aperture through which a particle beam to be focused along an optical axis of particles such as electrons, ions and neutral particles is incident; and on the opposite surface thereof, a detachable sample holder through which light penetrates, thereby enabling a sample to be observed and analyzed by means of the particle beam and light. A sample chamber is capable of reducing observation time by maintaining a vacuum therein even when a sample is put into or taken out from a sample chamber of an electron microscope or focused ion beam observation equipment, and capable of obtaining an optical image on the outside thereof without inserting a light source or an optical barrel into the sample chamber. A light-electron fusion microscope comprising the sample chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2016
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Applicant: KOREA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND SCIENCE
    Inventors: Bok Lae CHO, Sang Jung AHN, Inho SUL
  • Patent number: 9425022
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a monochromator and a charged particle beam apparatus including the same. The monochromator may include a first electrostatic lens configured to have a charged particle beam discharged by an emitter incident on the first electrostatic lens, refract a ray of the charged particle beam, and include a plurality of electrodes and a second electrostatic lens spaced apart from the first electrostatic lens at a specific interval and configured to have a central axis disposed identically with a central axis of the first electrostatic lens, have the charged particle beam output by the first electrostatic lens incident on the second electrostatic lens, refract the ray of the charged particle beam, and comprise a plurality of electrodes. Accordingly, there is an advantage in that a charged particle beam can have an excellent profile even after passing through the monochromator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: KOREA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND SCIENCE
    Inventors: Takashi Ogawa, Bok Lae Cho, Sang Jung Ahn, In Yong Park, Cheolsu Han
  • Publication number: 20150371811
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a monochromator and a charged particle beam apparatus including the same. The monochromator may include a first electrostatic lens configured to have a charged particle beam discharged by an emitter incident on the first electrostatic lens, refract a ray of the charged particle beam, and include a plurality of electrodes and a second electrostatic lens spaced apart from the first electrostatic lens at a specific interval and configured to have a central axis disposed identically with a central axis of the first electrostatic lens, have the charged particle beam output by the first electrostatic lens incident on the second electrostatic lens, refract the ray of the charged particle beam, and comprise a plurality of electrodes. Accordingly, there is an advantage in that a charged particle beam can have an excellent profile even after passing through the monochromator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2015
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Applicant: KOREA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND SCIENCE
    Inventors: Takashi OGAWA, Bok Lae CHO, Sang Jung AHN, In Yong PARK, Cheolsu HAN
  • Patent number: 6451130
    Abstract: A method for forming a chromium oxide film on the surface of a stainless steel sample. The method includes: (a) placing a sample having stainless a steel surface into a vacuum furnace, evacuating the vacuum furnace to a pressure of 2×10−7 to 3×10−7 Torr, and heating the vacuum furnace to 450 to 600° C. at a rate of 5 to 10° C./min; (b) maintaining the vacuum furnace for 10 to 20 minutes at a temperature of 450 to 600° C. to remove foreign materials from the surface of the stainless steel sample and to extract chromium atoms from the stainless steel substrate; and (c) supplying oxygen to the vacuum furnace while maintaining the temperature until oxygen partial pressure reaches 1×10−9 to 2.5×10−7 Torr, so the extracted chromium atoms react with oxygen, producing a chromium oxide (Cr2O3) film on the surface of the stainless steel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2002
    Assignee: Pohang University of Science and Technology Foundation
    Inventors: Suk-min Chung, Bok-lae Cho