Method for making specimen and apparatus thereof

摘要

The present invention is intended to provide a method and an apparatus for making a specimen for use in observation through a transparent electron microscope, including a step for milling part of the specimen into a thin film part, which can be observed through a transparent electron microscope, by scanning and irradiating a focused ion beam onto the specimen, a step for observing a mark for detection of position provided on the specimen as a secondary charged particle image by scanning and irradiating a charged particle beam onto the specimen without irradiating the charged particle beam onto the portion to be milled into the thin film part during the step for milling, and a step for compensating positional drift of the focused ion beam during said step for milling in accordance with a result of the observation. The present invention provides an effect to strikingly raise the efficiency of TEM observation since a specimen for use in TEM observation can be made by precisely milling a thin film part of the specimen even though positional drift of the focused ion beam is caused during milling.