Patent 9640366 was granted and assigned to Hitachi on May, 2017 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The present invention has for its object to provide a charged particle beam irradiation method and a charged particle beam apparatus which can suppress unevenness of electrification even when a plurality of different kinds of materials are contained in a pre-dosing area or degrees of density of patterns inside the pre-dosing area differs with positions.