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With the development of technology, electron microscope has become an important observational tool in different major such as physics, chemistry, biology, and materials engineering. The source of electron microscope, it usually divide into two types, thermionic type and field emission type. Field emission type electron source usually have smaller tip radius than thermal type, so it can produce smaller electron source. Then, electron beam pass by condenser lens, a small spot size source is formed. Therefore, the brightness of the electron gun is much brighter than thermal type source. In addition, field emission source spectral energy distribution is close to monochromatic, and has smaller energy spread. So field emission source has better coherence that lead it obtain higher resolution. Although field-emission type electron gun have above advantages, but it need to maintain in high vacuum condition. Because the tip of the field emission electron gun can easily react with impurities in the air, and lead the needle tip blunt. When the needle tip is blunt, it will cause the field emission gun poor efficiency. So the field emission type electron gun needs lots of high vacuum equipment to maintain it stay in high vacuum condition and high efficiency. The purpose of this research is using cheaper and more convenient ways to produce a field emission electron gun tip. And then set it up on our lab’s group made Desktop Electron Microscope to improve the resolution. In this paper, we successfully fabricated a field electron gun tip using electrolytic machining. The radius of curvature of the electron gun tip is about 100 nm or less, and its reproduction rate is also high. Finally, we also tried to deposit ZrO on the tip to make thermionic (Schottky) type field electron gun. After that, we also design some components installed on our Desktop Electron Microscope to finish field emission microscope.
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