JEOL 7000F

Exploring the

JEOL Control Program

Goals

• Look at all of the menu items and their functions.– Note where icon brings up the same function.

• Look at any items not in menu but brought up by icons and vice versa.

• Other items of interest?

Basic Screen

Title Bar

File Menu - 1

• User Login• Image File Handling

– We will look at elsewhere

• Image Save As …• Quick Save Options• Auto Batch Export• Print - NO PRINTER• Exit

File Menu - User Login

• Advantage is storage of your individual image observation conditions.

• List of users.• Login as user brings

up password.

File Menu – Quick Save Options

File Menu - Image Save As …

• Brings up the fairly typical “Save As” Dialog Box.

File Menu - Auto Batch Export

• Allows transfer of image files in a batch.

• Non-exported files do not contain associated text and scale bar on the image.

Edit Menu

• Copies the image to the clipboard.

• Example, the can be pasted to MS Paint

Control Menu

• Column• Contrast/Brightness

– Need live image– Use knobs on JEOL

Operation Pad

• Add Images• Alignment

– See JEOL Operation Pad

– We will discuss later

Control Menu – Column 1

• Column Control can be reached either through the Control Menu pull down or,

• Clicking the Column Icon on the Tool Bar.

Control Menu – Column 2

• Accelerating Voltage• High-light and type in new value

• Click arrows– From 0.5 – 2.9 kV steps are 0.01 kV– From 3.0 – 30 kV steps are 0.10 kV

• OL Aperture– Set to the same value as the OL Aperture on column– For most users, almost always “4”

Control Menu – Column 3

• SEI Detector• Usually On (green)

• Mode• Sets the bias on the Faraday cage in front of the SE

scintillator.• Normally at “3” but set to a lower value if using high beam

currents (Large spot sizes).

Control Menu – Column 4

• Column Mode:• SEM - Leave it here (green)• ECP – Electron channeling - No body does this now.• ALP – Alignment usage for service engineer.

• Focus:• Can course focus using the numbers and slide

• Probe (beam) current:• Higher the number the more current in the electron beam hitting the

sample.

Control Menu – Column 5

• Scan Rotation:– Normally this is OFF (0)

• DFC– Almost always OFF

Control Menu – Add Images

• Allows mixing of different signals.

• For example, backscattered and secondary electron.

• Not often used.

Image Menu – General – 1

• Image File Handler …• Display Thumbnails

– Self explanatory

• Use 24 Bits for Export– Self explanatory

• Save to AnalySIS– AnalySIS is an imaging

database program.

• Select SIS Database

Image Menu – General – 2

• Show Pan Window with 2K Image– Opens pan window

with large 2k x 2k images

• Overlap …– Overlaps 2 images

• Contrast/Brightness/Gamma …

• Image Processing– Various image filters

Image Menu – Image File Handler

• Several ways to get there:– Icon on Tool bar– Image menu– File Menu

Image File Handler – 1

• Select a folder for saving images,

• Print - No printer• Export

– Adds scale bar and other information to stored image

– Much easier to use theAuto Batch Exportin the File Menu drop down if you have many images you want to export.

• Other options are generally self explanatory

Image File Handler – 2

• Saw this window before in looking at the File Menu.

• You see the same thing if you go to File Menu, then Image Save As

Image Menu – Contrast/Brightness/Gamma

• Tool bar icon• Histogram

– Gray scale– Gain adjustment slider

• Correction curve• Hi – Lo Thresholds• Linearize – Equalize –

Invert• Contrast/Brightness/

Gamma Sliders

Tools Menu

• Annotate and Measurement– Add and edit text– Measure distance

between two arbitrary points

• Cursor Measurement– Measures distance

between two points specified by the cursor.

Tools Menu – Annotate and Measurement

• Append Annotate and Measure– USE ICON

• Load Annotate and Measure– Loads saved text

• Save Annotate …– Saves the text created

• Delete All Annotate …– Deletes all text and figures

on the screen

• Set Measurement …

Append Annotate and Measurement

Append Annotate and MeasurementExample

Set Measurement Magnify Parameters

Measurement Using the Cursors

Stage Menu • Exchange• Control• Map Control• Motion Abort

– ESC Key stops movement of the stage.

• Alarm Recovery– If specimen holder

comes in contact with a detector then Alarm Sounds; holder stops.Alarm Recovery frees stage to move

Stage Menu – Exchange

• Described previously• Specimen Exchange

operations

Stage Menu – Control• Step Movement of the

stage• Relative position

indicator• Stage movement

operation• STOP & Center

buttons– Stop – stops stage

movement– Center – moves to

specimen exchange

Stage Menu – Control (Detail)

Stage Menu – Map Control

• Snap Shot– Designate an

observation range on a saved image, then move the stage to the range

• Stage Map– Movement of stage

through Points File orStage Map

Snap Shot (Detail)

Stage Map (Detail)

Setup Menu

• Recipe Setup• Operation• Stage

• User Login– Sets user login

conditions

Setup Menu – Recipe

Setup Menu – Operation

Setup Menu – Stage

Maintenance Menu

• Normally these should not be altered.

• Gun• Stage• JEOLS …

– for JEOL engineer only

Tool Bar

Other Items

• REPLACE ALL TOOLS

• Dispose of trash

• Leave the lab in good order.

• LOG IN / LOG OUT

• Note any problems