Resolution enhancement at a large convergence angle by a delta corrector with a CFEG in a low-accelerating-voltage STEM

Abstract

Resolution reduction by a diffraction limit becomes severe with an increase in the wavelength of an electron at a relatively low accelerating voltage. For maintaining atomic resolution at a low accelerating voltage, a larger convergence angle with aberration correction is required. The developed aberration corrector, which compensates for higher-order aberration, can expand the uniform phase angle. Sub-angstrom imaging of a Ge [112] specimen with a narrow energy spread obtained by a cold field emission gun at 60kV was performed using the aberration corrector. We achieved a resolution of 82pm for a Ge–Ge dumbbell structure image by high angle annular dark-field imaging.