ABOUT US

PI is a privately held company that designs and manufactures world-class nanopositioning, precision motion and automation systems including air bearings, piezo mechanics, hexapods, steering mirrors, gantry systems and motion controllers at locations in North America, Europe, and Asia. PI was founded 5 decades ago and today employs more than 1300 people worldwide. PI’s customers are leaders in high-tech industries and research institutes in fields including photonics, life-sciences, semiconductors, aerospace, and industrial automation.

PI’s in-house engineered solutions have enabled customers around the world to increase their productivity and technological advantage for 5 decades. With access to a large base of technologies and proven methodologies, PI is in the position to quickly modify existing designs or provide a fully customized OEM solution to fit the exact requirements of your application from sensors and transducers to microscope auto-focus units, high performance nanopositioning stages to multi-axis automation systems.

 

PRODUCTS

The N-332 linear stage, powered by PICMAWalk, the longest-lasting piezo-motorized drive principle on the market, delivers an impressive 75 N active force with a 3 nm minimum incremental motion.

The P-725.xCDE1S PIFOC Scanner System offers a dynamic focus solution in the entry-level class, featuring travel ranges of 100 µm or 400 µm.

PI Ceramic offers piezoelectric ultrasound transducers, piezo ceramic components for piezo sensors, and elements made from PZT and lead free material formulations.

PI offers granite-based multi-axis precision motion systems for the automation of wafer metrology, glass substrate inspection and lithography applications.

The H-811.I2 6-Axis Miniature Hexapod is a fast, compact, and highly precise positioning system, ideal for industrial and research applications such as micromanufacturing and medical technology.

The F-143 is a unique photonics alignment system consisting of a multi-axis, frictionless air bearing stage and an ACS / EtherCat-based high-performance motion controller with embedded first light search and alignment algorithms. 

The direct-drive rotation stages of the V-62x series are designed for precision, high stiffness, a long lifetime, and ease of use, and can be mounted in any orientation.

Piezo flexure tip/tilt platforms provide fast response, high resolution and stability - ideal prerequisites for fast steering mirror applications (FSM) and dynamic operation in scanning, tracking and image stabilizing.

Power ultrasonic transducers such as the Langevin transducer can be used in a wide variety of different applications in the fields of industry and life sciences.

The F-716 is a high-precision, high performance air bearing motion system with six degrees of freedom ideal for Fast Multi- Channel Photonics Alignment (FMPA) involving fiber arrays, silicon photonics circuits, and wafer level short range metrology applications.

CONTACT INFORMATION

PI (Physik Instrumente) LP

16 Albert Street

Auburn, MA 01501

UNITED STATES

Phone: (508) 832-3456

Fax: (508) 832-0506

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