Abstract: Between a nitrogen-vacancy center and a support portion, a cut-off portion is provided that cuts off the nitrogen-vacancy center from the support portion.

Abstract: To provide a scanning probe microscope capable of easily determining a measurement location even when a numerical aperture of an objective lens is relatively large. The scanning probe microscope comprises: a probe which scans a sample; a light source which irradiates the probe with excitation light via an objective lens; and a detector which detects fluorescence generated at the probe. The scanning probe microscope further includes: a reflective member arranged between the objective lens and the sample; and an imaging device which images a reflecting surface of the reflective member.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to make it possible to provide a mechanism that applies an external stimulus and to measure structural and electromagnetic changes of a cell due to the external stimulus with high sensitivity by an NV center. There is provided an environment control mechanism configured to change a state of a sample by applying an external stimulus to the sample.

Abstract: This substitution site measuring equipment using an electron beam analyzes, with high precision, the structure of a substitution site in a micrometer- to nanometer-order region, by reducing or vanishing the X-ray intensity of diffraction X-rays generated in a specimen. The substitution site measuring equipment measures a substitution site in a crystal by detecting, by means of an X-ray detector, X-rays generated from a specimen upon irradiation of the specimen with an electron beam.

Abstract: This substitution site measuring equipment using an electron beam analyzes, with high precision, the structure of a substitution site in a micrometer- to nanometer-order region, by reducing or vanishing the X-ray intensity of diffraction X-rays generated in a specimen. The substitution site measuring equipment measures a substitution site in a crystal by detecting, by means of an X-ray detector, X-rays generated from a specimen upon irradiation of the specimen with an electron beam.

Abstract: Areas having different isotopic ratios are artificially introduced into a metal material before sintering, a heat treatment, or grain boundary diffusion, and atom probe analysis results before and after sintering, a heat treatment, or grain boundary diffusion are compared to evaluate a change in isotopic distribution over time.

Abstract: Areas having different isotopic ratios are artificially introduced into a metal material before sintering, a heat treatment, or Grain boundary diffusion, and atom probe analysis results before and after sintering, a heat treatment, or grain boundary diffusion are compared to evaluate a change in isotopic distribution over time.

Abstract: To provide a charged particle beam analyzer enabling an efficient and high-sensitivity analysis of a microscopic light element contained in a heavy metal sample, the charged particle beam analyzer equipped with a WDX spectrometer includes a storage unit 126 having stored therein a correlation database between average atomic numbers and WDX background intensity values obtained with use of a plurality of standard samples and a WDX background processing means 146 including a means 147 for calculating an average atomic number for a sample 129 and a means for eliminating a WDX background intensity value derived from the average atomic number for the sample 129 and the correlation database from a WDX spectrum for the sample 129.

Abstract: To analyze an element to be evaluated with high sensitivity and high accuracy in a short period of time, in an electron beam analyzer including a wavelength dispersive X-ray analyzer in an electron microscope. The electron beam analyzer has one diffraction grating in which a plurality of patterns having maximum X-ray reflectance with respect to the respective X-rays are formed. It simultaneously detects an X-ray as an energy reference and an X-ray spectrum to be evaluated. The positional displacement of X-ray energy due to the installation/replacement of the diffraction grating is corrected using the X-ray spectrum as the energy reference, thereby enabling to perform an analysis with high sensitivity and high accuracy in a short period of time.

Abstract: To provide a charged particle beam analyzer enabling an efficient and high-sensitivity analysis of a microscopic light element contained in a heavy metal sample, the charged particle beam analyzer equipped with a WDX spectrometer includes a storage unit 126 having stored therein a correlation database between average atomic numbers and WDX background intensity values obtained with use of a plurality of standard samples and a WDX background processing means 146 including a means 147 for calculating an average atomic number for a sample 129 and a means for eliminating a WDX background intensity value derived from the average atomic number for the sample 129 and the correlation database from a WDX spectrum for the sample 129.

Abstract: To analyze an element to be evaluated with high sensitivity and high accuracy in a short period of time, in an electron beam analyzer including a wavelength dispersive X-ray analyzer in an electron microscope. The electron beam analyzer has one diffraction grating in which a plurality of patterns having maximum X-ray reflectance with respect to the respective X-rays are formed. It simultaneously detects an X-ray as an energy reference and an X-ray spectrum to be evaluated. The positional displacement of X-ray energy due to the installation/replacement of the diffraction grating is corrected using the X-ray spectrum as the energy reference, thereby enabling to perform an analysis with high sensitivity and high accuracy in a short period of time.

Abstract: There is provided a calculating system that can calculate only a gradation image of only a measurement target in monitoring large-scale facility using a transmission imaging on the basis of a cosmic ray. In addition to a gradation image on the basis of a flight track of the cosmic ray, a gradation image of the density length on the basis of structure information of a structural object which is not a measurement target is made and used to correct the gradation image on the basis of the flight track of the cosmic ray.

Abstract: In a charged particle beam analyzer irradiating a charged particle beam to a sample in a vacuum container and detecting an X-ray generated from the sample to analyze the sample, two or more X-ray lenses configured in different manners are provided in the vacuum container. This no longer requires air opening in the vacuum container following X-ray lens replacement and also no longer requires vacuuming, making it possible to perform analysis with high efficiency and high sensitivity.

Abstract: In a specimen analyzing apparatus such as a transmission electron microscope for analyzing the structure, composition and electron state of an observing specimen in operation by applying external voltage to the specimen to be observed, a specimen support (mesh) including a mesh electrode connectable to external voltage applying portions of the specimen and a specimen holder including a specimen holder electrode connectable to the mesh electrode and current inlet terminals as well are provided. Voltage is applied externally of the specimen analyzing apparatus to the external voltage applying portions of the specimen through the medium of the specimen holder electrode and mesh electrode.

Abstract: In a charged particle beam analyzer irradiating a charged particle beam to a sample in a vacuum container and detecting an X-ray generated from the sample to analyze the sample, two or more X-ray lenses configured in different manners are provided in the vacuum container. This no longer requires air opening in the vacuum container following X-ray lens replacement and also no longer requires vacuuming, making it possible to perform analysis with high efficiency and high sensitivity.

Abstract: A charged particle beam microscope device of the present invention is configured such that in a diffraction pattern obtained by radiating a parallel charged particle beam onto a sample (22) having a known structure, a distance (r) between spots of a diffraction pattern, which reflects the structure of the sample, is measured, and the variation of a distance (L) between the sample and a detector, which depends on a diffraction angle (?), is corrected. This enables the correction of distortion that varies with an off-axis distance from the optical axis in a diffraction pattern, and a high precision structural analysis by performing accurately analyzing the spot positions of the diffraction pattern.

Abstract: An electric charged particle beam microscope measures a geometric distortion at an arbitrary magnification with high precision, and corrects the geometric distortion. A geometric distortion at a first magnification is measured as an absolute distortion based on a standard specimen having a cyclic structure. A microscopic structure specimen is photographed at a geometric distortion measured first magnification and at a geometric distortion unmeasured second magnification. The image at the first magnification is equally transformed to the second magnification to generate a scaled image. The geometric distortion at the second magnification is measured as a relative distortion based on the scaled image. The absolute distortion at the second magnification is obtained on the basis of the absolute distortion at the first magnification and the relative distortion at the second magnification.

Abstract: Below 50-nm-diameter extremely narrow electrically-conductive fiber is used instead of the electron beam biprism used in the conventional interference electron microscope method. A phenomenon is utilized where a focus-shifted shadow of this fiber is shifted from a straight line by a distance which is proportional to a differentiation of phase change amount of an electron beam due to a sample with respect to a direction perpendicular to the fiber. The phase change amount is quantified by calibrating this shift amount through its comparison with a shift amount caused by another sample in terms of which the corresponding phase change amount has been quantitatively evaluated in advance. The differentiation amount of the quantified phase change in the electron beam due to the sample is visualized, or eventually, is integrated thereby being transformed into absolute phase change amount to be visualized.

Abstract: Below 50-nm-diameter extremely narrow electrically-conductive fiber is used instead of the electron beam biprism used in the conventional interference electron microscope method. A phenomenon is utilized where a focus-shifted shadow of this fiber is shifted from a straight line by a distance which is proportional to a differentiation of phase change amount of an electron beam due to a sample with respect to a direction perpendicular to the fiber. The phase change amount is quantified by calibrating this shift amount through its comparison with a shift amount caused by another sample in terms of which the corresponding phase change amount has been quantitatively evaluated in advance. The differentiation amount of the quantified phase change in the electron beam due to the sample is visualized, or eventually, is integrated thereby being transformed into absolute phase change amount to be visualized.

Abstract: An electron microscope for simultaneously adjusting the tilt, rotation and temperature of the specimen, and rapidly heating a desired localized section of the specimen. Specimen holders support the specimen on one side, and contain a space on the other side. A laser beam mechanism for heating the vicinity of the specimen irradiates a focused laser beam onto the specimen from this space. The output from a light position sensor installed in the specimen holders is utilized to adjust the irradiation position of the focused laser beam by controlling a fine motion mechanism for inputting light into the vicinity of the specimen stand.