FEI

Official history

Source: http:www.fei.com/about-fei/company-history/

Retrieved Aug 6, 201

FEI is the world leader in electron optics and focused ion beam technologies. Our market-leading solutions deliver precision imaging for three-dimensional characterization, analysis and modification of materials and structures with resolution down to the sub-Ångström level. But we're far more than the proven technology innovator.

Since our founding in 1971, FEI has persistently advanced its core technologies. The result is a unique, unsurpassed technology base that provides users withgroundbreaking results. Through a partnership with the former Philips Electron Optics division - a part of FEI since 1997 - we pioneered the world's firstDualBeam system , incorporating both a scanning electron column and a focused ion beam. Introduced nearly ten years before any competing system, the DualBeam was a development that changed forever how researchers would work. We are still the only company with both ion beam and electron beam solutions in-house, allowing us to develop more functionally-integrated solutions for our customers. Our heritage also includes industry-leading innovations in transmission electron microscopes (TEMs).

Following the acquisition of Philips Electron Optics, FEI pioneered the Tecnai TEM . As the world's first fully integrated TEM, it provided new levels of productivity and ease-of-use. The Titan, released in 2006, demonstrates how FEI continuously raises the technology performance bar. With its sub-Ångström resolution, the Titan is the most powerful system of its type on the commercial market, and has resulted in a family of instruments, including the Titan ETEM and the Titan Krios, both capable of delivering groundbreaking results in research and life sciences.