Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, recently completed the acquisition of Phenom-World, a leader in desktop scanning electron microscopy (SEM) solutions. Thermo Fisher will integrate the business into Thermo Fisher's Analytical Instruments segment.

The addition of Phenom World's leading desktop SEM platform strengthens Thermo Fisher's leadership in electron microscopy and expands the company's entry-level and desktop SEMs offerings for customers working in the materials science, industrial manufacturing, life sciences and electronics industries. 

Based in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, Phenom-World delivers best-in-class desktop SEMs, and imaging and analysis packages, for research and industrial markets.

Phenom is a small, table-top sized Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) originally developed by Philips and FEI and further developed by Phenom-World. The microscope features a combination of optical and electron-optical images; the optical image enables a Neverlost function so operators may navigate to any point on the sample.