ELECTRON MICROSCOPE AND COMPOSITE IRRADIATION LENS

An object of the present invention is to provide an electron microscope that employs a hologram of a diffraction pattern to reconstruct a microscopic image involving no imaging aberration due to image forming lenses, as well as a combined illumination lens used for such an electron microscope. The electron microscope according to the present invention has an electron source (11), a condenser lens (12), a biprism (13) to split an electron beam supplied from the condenser lens (12) into coherent first and second electron beams (L1, L2) that are parallel to each other, a combined illumination lens (15) to make the first electron beam (L1) into a parallel wave and the second electron beam (L2) into a converging wave that converges at a predetermined distance, a sample stage (16) to hold a sample illuminated with the first electron beam (L1), a detector (17) to detect a hologram of a diffraction pattern formed by interference of the first electron beam (L1) with the second electron beam (L2), a computing unit (18) to conduct a predetermined Fourier transform on the hologram supplied from the detector (17) and reconstruct a microscopic image of the sample, and a display (19) to display the reconstructed microscopic image.