FEI Company supplies products and instruments for nanoscale imaging, analysis, and prototyping to enable research, development, and manufacturing. The company’s products and systems include hardware and software for focused ion beam systems, scanning electron microscopes, transmission electron microscopes, and DualBeam systems. Its products are used in range of industrial, academic, and research institutional applications. The company’s products are used primarily in laboratories to speed new product development and increase yields by enabling 3D wafer metrology, defect analysis, root cause failure analysis, circuit edit for modifying device structures, pathology, and quality control applications. Its solutions provide researchers and manufacturers with atomic-level resolution images, and high resolution imaging, which allows cell biologists and drug researchers to create detailed 3D reconstructions of complex biological structures enabling them to map proteins within cells. The company serves semiconductor, data storage, and related industries, such as printers and micro electromechanical systems, and universities and research institutes engaged in biotech and life sciences applications, as well as pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device, and hospital companies. It also serves universities, public, and private research laboratories; and a wide range of industrial customers, including automobiles, aerospace, metals, mining, and petrochemicals. FEI Company sells its products through independent agents, distributors, and representatives in North America, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific. The company was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in Hillsboro, Oregon.