The apparatus for ion beam fabrication, which has been able to detect any
anomalous condition of ion beams only by means of the current irradiated
on the specimen, could not compensate the failure by investigating the
cause and could not realize stable processing. To solve the problem
described above, the present invention includes the first and second
blankers and Faraday cups switches ON and OFF the first and second
blankers and monitors beam current at two positions above and below the
projection mask. By adopting this configuration, it will be possible to
acquire the information on failure in ion beam, sort out the cause of the
failure and to compensate the failure while limiting damages to the
projection mask. As a result, it will be possible to realize stable
processing by means of ion beam, and to use the ion beam fabricating
device on a stable basis.