FEI Company

{{Infobox company

| name = FEI Company

| image = FEI Company HQ.JPG

| image_caption = Corporate headquarters

| logo = FEI-LOGO.png

| logo_size = 175px

| type = Subsidiary

| traded_as = {{NASDAQ was|FEIC}}

| genre =

| foundation = {{start date and age|1971}}

| founder = Dr. Lynwood Swanson

| location_city = Hillsboro, Oregon

| location_country = United States

| location =

| origins =

| key_people = {{ubl|Dr. Don R. Kania (CEO), Anthony Trunzo (EVP and CFO)|Bradley J. Thies (vice president, General Counsel)}}

| area_served = global

| industry = Scientific and Technical Instruments

| products = Focused ion beam
scanning electron microscope
transmission electron microscope
DualBeam, light microscope, software

| services =

| revenue = {{loss}} $930M (2015)[http://investor.fei.com/Cache/1500083016.PDF?O=PDF&T=&Y=&D=&FID=1500083016&iid=4623727 2015 Annual Report and Form 10-K], p. 4, investor.fei.com. Retrieved 20 December 2016.

| operating_income = {{gain}} $129.4M (2014)

| net_income = {{gain}} $105.1M (2014)

| num_employees = 2800+ (2015)

| parent = Thermo Fisher Scientific

| divisions =

| subsid = ASPEX Corporation (dba FEI Delmont) (Pennsylvania, United States), Visualization Sciences Group Inc. (dba FEI Houston) (United States) and 26 others.[https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/914329/000091432915000023/feic-10xkxex21x12312014.htm U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Archive, Exhibit 21, FEI List of Subsidiaries], 31-12-2014, sec.gov. Retrieved 20 December 2016.

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| homepage = {{URL|https://www.fei.com/}}

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}}

FEI Company (Field Electron and Ion Company) was an American company that designed, manufactured, and supported microscope technology. Headquartered in Hillsboro, Oregon, FEI had over 2,800 employees and sales and service operations in more than 50 countries around the world. Formerly listed on the NASDAQ, it is now a subsidiary of Thermo Fisher Scientific.

History

The FEI company was founded in 1971 as Field Electron and Ion Company by Dr. Lynwood W. Swanson, Mr. Noel A. Martin and Mr. Lloyd Swenson, as a supplier of electron and ion beam sources for field emission research and electron microscopy.[http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/history2/45/FEI-Company.html FEI Company - Company Profile, Information, Business Description, History, Background Information on FEI Company], Advameg, Inc., 2015 . The name was shortened to FEI Company in 1973. In 1978, Dr. J.H. Orloff, a research specialist in electrostatic optics for field emission ion and electron sources, joined the company as its fourth partner. Swanson was a professor of applied physics at the Oregon Graduate Center, and Orloff's doctoral adviser.J.H. Orloff, L.W. Swanson & M.W. Utlaut, High Resolution Focused Ion Beams: FIB and its Applications: The Physics of Liquid Metal Ion Sources and Ion Optics and Their Application to Focused Ion Beam Technology, 2003 Edition, Springer, 2003, {{ISBN|978-0306473500}}, p 303. FEI's introduction of the liquid metal ion source in 1981 led to its application in the semiconductor industry for mask repair and defect analysis.{{cite web|url=http://www.fei.com/about/company-history.aspx|title=Company History|date=9 March 2015|website=www.fei.com}} The current company was formed by the 1997 merger between FEI and Philips Electron Optics,"[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C06E6DD173BF935A3575AC0A960958260 Dutch Company to Buy 55 Percent Stake in FEI]", The New York Times, September 6, 1996 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. In May 2011, the company announced a second straight quarter of record revenue and profits, with the company totaling nearly $200 million in revenue for their second quarter.{{cite news|title=FEI reports record earnings, revenue|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/news/2011/05/03/fei-reports-record-earnings-revenue.html|access-date=6 May 2011|newspaper=Portland Business Journal|date=May 3, 2011}} The company attributed the growth to a diversification of its clientele.{{cite news|last=Siemers|first=Erik|title=Hillsboro's FEI busts boundaries|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/print-edition/2011/05/20/hillsboros-fei-busts-boundaries.html|access-date=24 July 2011|newspaper=Portland Business Journal|date=May 20, 2011}}

On May 27, 2016, Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. announced[http://ir.thermofisher.com/investors/news-and-events/news-releases/news-release-details/2016/Thermo-Fisher-Scientific-Completes-Acquisition-of-FEI-Company/default.aspx "Thermo Fisher Scientific Completes Acquisition of FEI Company" Press Release], 19-09-2016, thermofisher.com. Retrieved 20 December 2016. its acquisition of FEI Company for US$4.2 billion, which commenced in early 2017."[http://www.asminternational.org/web/ims/news/-/journal_content/56/10180/26580511/NEWS Thermo Fisher Scientific acquires FEI Company for $4.2 billion]," ASM International, 19 Jun 2016. At the time of the transaction, FEI had more than 2700 employees in over 20 countries.{{Cite web|url=https://www.fei.com/about-fei/|title=About FEI|publisher=FEI Company}} The FEI trademark was phased out in favor of the Materials & Structural Analysis division of Thermo Fisher Scientific.

Operations

The products manufactured by the division include focused ion beam workstations, scanning electron microscopes, transmission electron microscopes, and focusing columns, as well as computer software used in image acquisition, reconstruction, and analysis.

The division has research and development centers in Hillsboro, Oregon; Eindhoven, The Netherlands; Munich, Germany; Shanghai, China PRC; Tokyo, Japan; Brno, Czech Republic; Canberra, Australia; Trondheim, Norway; and Bordeaux, France. It has sales and service operations in more than 50 countries.