PI (Physik Instrumente) Videos
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Closed-Loop Fast Focusing Nanopositioning Drives: Voice-Coil or Piezo - Your Choice
3/6/2023
Voice coil drives with mechanical bearings and Piezo flexure mechanisms offer breakthroughs in travel range, reliability, flexibility, precision, and speed.
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Scaling To Match The Needs Of A Booming Silicon Photonics Industry
1/31/2023
Silicon photonics have become a mainstream technology for everything from LiDAR to smartwatch sensors. With this significant growth, test and manufacturing equipment is scaling to keep pace.
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New Motion And Laser Control Algorithms Improve Quality, Throughput
7/18/2022
Dr. Cliff Jolliffe, PI's head of segment marketing automation, explains how motion and control solutions from PI help address the industry's needs. Advanced motion control algorithms and high performance linear stages and rotary stages can improve the precision, quality and throughput in laser micro hole drilling. The combination of fast focusing and nano-positioning scanning stages allows for a highly controlled hole taper.
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Increasing Semiconductor Wafer Yield With Wafer Stealth Dicing Methods
7/18/2022
The production of computer chips starts with the separation of individual dies from the semiconductor wafer. Laser dicing has many advantages over physical cutting equipment.
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Higher Precision Laser Seam Welding
7/18/2022
Sensitive electronic assemblies and micro-systems are sealed hermetically to increase lifetime and performance. Laser seam welding is the preferred process to allow very accurate seams with small radii. Coordinating galvos with motion stages for the best results, is made easy with latest software, motion hardware and motion controllers from PI.
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Higher Performance Wafer Metrology And Semiconductor Inspection
7/18/2022
Before an electronic chip can be purchased, 400 to 800 production steps have been run through. At all critical points during manufacturing, inspection processes are essential to ensure the high quality and reliability of the final products. This video provides more on wafer inspection and metrology with air bearings and piezo nanopositioning stages.
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Enabling The Production Of Photonic Devices W/ Faster Alignment Automation Stages & Algorithms
7/18/2022
Scott Jordan, Physik Instrumente’s Head of Photonics, explains how PI’s motion systems enable simultaneous active alignment of several optical components achieving 99% reduction in alignment times.
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Addressing The Unique Challenges Of Silicon Photonics Production
1/26/2022
In a follow-up to our first video with Scott Jordan at PI from day 1 at Photonics West 2022, we bring you part 2. He further drove the point home regarding the need for solutions featuring high-speed automation, and high-throughput and cost-effective manufacturing, and showed us tangible examples of how PI is rising to the challenge.
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The Challenges Of Silicon Photonics Production
1/25/2022
On day one of Photonics West 2022, Scott Jordan met with us to discuss the throughput-oriented architecture the photonics industry must adopt in order to address the silicon photonics production bottleneck.
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Video: V-508 Linear Translation Stage Demo
1/19/2022
The demo shows a closed-loop XY-table in high speed scan and alignment. These V-508 linear translation stages are run by an ACS industrial motion controller with intelligent alignment algorithms.