Positioning Equipment Videos

1. Live Talk: The Turbulent History Of Interferometric Methods Of Precision Positioning 3/27/2023

   Peter J. de Groot gives a talk on interferometric precision positioning recorded live at the European Precision Engineering Society (euspen) Special Interest Group meeting on Precision Motion Systems & Control.

2. 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.

3. Achieving Sub-Nanometer and Picometer Measurements With Unrivaled Precision 2/1/2023

   Shannon Gohrbani of Mad City Labs details PicoQ Position Sensor technology for displacement measurements on Day Two of Photonics West 2023.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. Video: Nanopositioners, What Are They Good For? 6/9/2022

   This presentation, from the APS March 2021 Meeting by Shannon Ghorbani, will give an overview of what a nanopositioning system is, and more importantly, how this versatile tool can be used across a range of physics applications.

10. 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.