FEI Company
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| Company type | Public (Nasdaq: FEIC) |
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| Industry | Scientific and Technical Instruments |
| Founded | 1971 |
| Headquarters | , |
Area served | global |
Key people | Dr. Don R Kania, President and CEO Dr. Rob H.J. Fastenau, Executive Vice President; Marketing and Technology Robert S. Gregg, Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Service Raymond A. Link, Executive Vice President and CFO Bradley J. Thies, Vice President, General Counsel |
| Products | Focused Ion Beam Scanning Electron Microscope Transmission Electron Microscope DualBeam™ |
| Revenue |  $479.5 Million USD (2006) |
| $20 Million USD (2006) | |
Number of employees | 1,700 (2007) |
| Website | www.fei.com |
FEI Company (Nasdaq: FEIC), founded in 1971, is a leading supplier of advanced Tools for Nanotech™ to a broad range of researchers, developers and manufacturers working on the nanoscale. Nanotechnology is the science of characterizing, analyzing and fabricating things smaller than 100 nanometers (a nanometer is one billionth of a meter). FEI's major markets are:
- NanoResearch & Industry, 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.
FEI's tools feature advanced 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 the world's most powerful commercially-available microscope the Titan™ S/TEM and the company's line of DualBeam™ systems that combine ion and electron beams in a single system to provide 3D characterization, analysis and sample manipulation. FEI is opening nanoscale worlds within our world, bringing the nanoscale within the grasp of leading researchers and manufacturers and helping them turn some of the biggest ideas of this century into reality.
FEI maintains research and development centers in North America and Europe, and sales and service operations in more than 50 countries around the world.
Company History
- FEI Introduces the Titan™ 80-300 kV TEM, the world's most powerful, commercially-available transmission electron microscope.
- FEI breaks the 1 Ångström barrier with a 200 kV Tecnai™ with monochromator and Cs correction.
- FEI introduces application-specific DualBeam™ systems for labs.
- First monochromated TEM.
- First small-stage DualBeam™ launched.
- FEI acquires Micrion Corporation and integrates product lines and operations.
- FEI and Micrion separately offer head trimming solution for data storage manufacturing applications.
- All-in-one TEM (Tecnai) launched.
- FEI and Philips Electron Optics merge.
- First in-line DualBeam™ for wafer fab shipped.
- 5000th LMI source shipped by FEI.
- Micrion releases its 8000 Series FIB for IC mask repair.
- Philips Electron Optics acquires ElectroScan and its ESEM technology.
- Philips Electron Optics acquires Delmi in Brno, Czech Republic.
- FEI ships 100th FIB workstation.
- The first DualBeam™ (FIB/SEM) workstation is produced by FEI and Philips Electron Optics.
- Philips Electron Optics introduces SEM for 6-inch semiconductor wafers.
- FEI ships the first complete ion beam (FIB) workstation.
- Micrion ships its first system
- FEI ships first electrostatically focused electron column.
- Micrion is founded to develop ion beam systems for mask repair.
- FEI ships first LMI focusing column.
- Liquid metal ion (LMI) sources are developed by FEI.
- FEI is founded to provide high-purity, oriented single crystal materials for field emission research.
- Philips Electron Optics breaks the 10 Ångström-barrier on a TEM with an EM200.
- Philips Electron Optics (part of FEI Company since 1997) starts volume production of its first transmission electron microscopes.
Application Areas
Semiconductor & Data Storage
Biology & Life Sciences
Research
- Materials Qualification
- Materials and Sample Preparation
- Nanoprototyping
- Nanometrology
- Device Testing and Characterization
Industry