positioning-equipment-whitepapers
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Speed Up Industrial Camera Manufacturing With Active Alignment
1/22/2024
Learn about the process of active optical alignment with a close look at an evolving sensor positioning system that can help increase production volumes and maintain product consistency.
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How To Improve Active Photonics Alignment Performance
11/28/2023
Explore how FMPA technology is revolutionizing the photonics industry by streamlining the alignment process, reducing time and cost, and meeting the growing demands for high-volume, mass production.
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How Piezo-Based Motion Can Improve The Performance Of Laser Drilling Systems
9/26/2023
The use of ultra-short laser technology is increasingly favored for creating small holes in various materials. Explore different laser drilling system implementations and their pros and cons.
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Piezo Components For Liquid Handling
9/5/2023
Explore the versatile use of piezoelectric microfluidic devices in precise liquid handling for diverse applications including genomics, diagnostics, cytometry, and lab automation.
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How to Use Hexapod 6-DOF Motion And Positioning Systems
8/9/2023
Discover the versatile uses of hexapod positioning systems (Stewart Platforms) for multi-axis positioning, motion simulation, and 6 degrees of freedom with adjustable pivot point.
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Laser Seam Welding Of Electronic Packages Using Galvo Scanners
7/18/2022
In laser seam welding, agalvo scanner helps expand the laser source’s effective fine spot size to the seam width, lays a complex welding pattern over the motion path to create high-quality welds, increases throughput, and takes advantage of higher power laser sources.
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Fast Steering Mirrors (FSM) - Design, Performance, And Tuning Of Piezo-Based Mechanisms
6/7/2022
In free space optical communication (FSO), large amounts of data are “beamed” between two points – on earth, on aircraft or between satellites in space. Fast steering mirrors (FSM) are one means to compensate for disturbances that could keep the laser beam from hitting its target receiver precisely.
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Multi-Axis Stages: Why Custom Aligned, Tuned, Error-Corrected XYZ Assemblies Are Better
4/18/2022
Multi-axis precision motion at the micron or sub-micron level is required in many industrial automation processes as well as in test and metrology applications. Users of such motion systems often ask: Should I just get the individual components and bolt them together myself, or rather specify a complete XYZ system, mounted, aligned, and tested by a specialist? The answer depends on expectations, performance requirements, and budget.
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Piezoelectric Positioning Equipment For Nanoscale Microscopy & Imaging
4/18/2022
The compound microscope has quickly fallen behind alternative tools capable of performing high-precision materials characterization or insights into molecular activities on the nanoscale. PI offers a range of positioning equipment suitable for sub-nanometer resolution microscopy and interferometry.
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How To Connect A Safety Light Barrier To A Hexapod System
11/19/2021
This white paper from PI explains when it is useful and necessary to use a safety device, how a safety light barrier (or light curtain) works, how the risk assessment for hexapods is carried out, and how the safety device can quickly be integrated in the controller environment.