FEI Company

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FEI Company
Type	Public (NASDAQ: FEIC)
Founded	1971
Headquarters	Hillsboro, Oregon, USA
Area served	global
Key people	Dr. Don R Kania, President and CEO Raymond A. Link, Executive Vice President and CFO Dr. Rob H.J. Fastenau, Executive Vice President; Marketing and Technology Robert S. Gregg, Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Service Bradley J. Thies, Vice President, General Counsel
Industry	Scientific and Technical Instruments
Products	Focused ion beam Scanning Electron Microscope Transmission Electron Microscope DualBeam
Revenue	▲ $592.5 Million USD (2007)
Net income	▲ $57.9 Million USD (2007)
Employees	1,900 (2008)
Website	www.fei.com

FEI Company (NASDAQ: FEIC), founded in 1971, is a supplier of electron microscopy tools to researchers, developers and manufacturers working on the nanoscale.

FEI's tools include ion and electron-beam technologies that enable users to characterize, analyze and manipulate structures down to the sub-angstrom scale. The company's systems include a line of DualBeam systems that combine ion and electron beams in a single system to provide 3D characterization, analysis and sample manipulation, scanning electron microscopes, transmission electron microscopes, focused ion beams, and the world's highest resolution commercially available microscope, yielding powerful sub-angström (atomic scale) imaging and analysis.^[1]

1 Market Divisions
2 Locations
3 History
4 Competitors
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Market Divisions

NanoResearch & NanoIndustry, which includes a broad range of institutes, universities, national laboratories and industrial companies primarily performing research and development in material science

NanoElectronics, which includes developers and manufacturers in the semiconductor, data storage and related fields

NanoBiology, which includes institutes, universities, pharmaceutical companies and hospitals working in life sciences research and development.

[edit] Locations

FEI maintains research and development centers in Hillsboro, Oregon; Eindhoven, The Netherlands; Brno, Czech Republic; and sales and service operations in more than 50 countries around the world.

[edit] History

The FEI company was founded in 1971 as a supplier to the semiconductor industry. The current company was formed by the 1997 merger between FEI and Philips Electron Optics^[2], and the 1999 acquisition of ion beam company Micrion. As such, the company can trace its roots in electron microscopy to the early commercial instruments produced by Philips Electron Optics in the 1940s. On December 20, 2006 Philips Business Electronics International B.V. sold its shares of common stock in FEI Company reducing its shareholding in FEI to zero.