PI (Physik Instrumente) News

  1. Low Profile 5-Axis Air Bearing Motion System For Semiconductor, Laser Processing 3/2/2022

    PI introduced a new frictionless direct drive motor motion system at Photonics West that provides superior positioning precision, high speed, and ultra-high reliability for 24/7 duty cycle applications.

  2. James Webb Space Telescope Mirrors Aligned By 6-Axis Precision Hexapod Stage 2/2/2022

    The 6-axis nanopositioning system provides high force and ultra high precision to align the hexagonal mirror segments of the largest and most powerful scientific space telescope ever built.

  3. High Speed, Direct Driver Rotary Tables With High Precision Air Bearings 10/15/2021

    A family of new high Precision, High Speed Rotary Tables with direct drive motors and frictionless air bearings provides superior positioning precision, high speed, and negligible wobble and eccentricity errors.

  4. PI's Digital Piezo Controller Family Grows Again 8/23/2021

    Improved resolution with 24bit DAC, higher power integrated piezo amplifier, ideal for piezoelectric single-axis nanopositioning systems with capacitive position-feedback sensors, it’s compact, affordable, and new from PI.

  5. New Piezo Motor For AutoFocus/Nano-Metrology Applications 8/10/2021

    The next gen piezo focusing stages, new from PI, have longer travel ranges to 800µm, faster step/settle, better guiding precision, and higher resolution.

  6. PI's Silicon Valley Tech Center Opens, Expanding Its Presence In California 8/10/2021

    A new lab for innovation creation, permanent product demos, and conference and training space are all part of the new Tech Center.

  7. PI's New Multi-Channel Piezo Driver 7/2/2021

    PI’s new multi-channel piezo driver is based on 5 decades of piezo transducer and controller experience and is well-suited to operate a wealth of piezoelectric transducers including scanner tubes, shear actuators, and XYZ actuators, in static and dynamic applications.

  8. A-352 XY/XYZ Cartesian Gantry Systems For Large Area Inspection, Assembly, 3D Printing 6/28/2021

    This new XY / XYZ gantry stage motion system from PI provides overhead motion for industrial automation applications in assembly, pick-and-place, alignment, inspection, and custom 3D printer design. The A-352 gantry is designed and manufactured in the USA by PI’s air bearing & precision motion division in Hopkinton, MA.

  9. Direct Drive Nanopositioning Stage For Optical Delay Lines & Ultrafast Time Resolved Transient Studies 6/28/2021

    PI’s new optical delay nanopositioner plays a big part in small increments of time in ultrafast spectroscopy.

  10. Miniature Linear Stage On Mars Rover Helps Provide Precision Focus Control For Supercam 6/3/2021

    The tiny new PI micropositioning stage on the Perseverance rover plays an important role in NASA’s mission to detect traces of former life on the RED planet.