Positioning Equipment

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.

Cleanroom-compatible, this new high performance noncontact miniature linear slide from PI is suited for applications like wafer inspection, scanning/metrology, fiber alignment, laser micromachining and marking, autofocusing, and genome sequencing.

New long-travel addition to PI’s large range of nanopositioning slides for fast focusing tasks in semiconductor metrology, microscopy, life sciences, and slide scanning applications.

Z-tip-tilt nanopositioning stage for precision alignment is ultra-low profile, fast, precise, and maintenance-free with air bearings. Cleanroom-compatible, this high-performance noncontact positioner is well-suited for wafer inspection, fiber positioning, optics positioning, flat screen inspection, maskless lithography, and µ-LED manufacturing.

Prior Scientific is proud to announce the release of its new NanoScan-SP400/SP600 Piezo Sample Scanner, delivering the best positioning performance and fastest recovery between Z stacks. 

As the demand for higher data transmission rates is growing, communication via laser beams, terrestrial, ground-to-satellite, and satellite-to-satellite is opening up new possibilities. Fast fine steering mirrors keep laser beams stabilized and pointed in the right direction, making sure they reach their targets exactly, over thousands of miles.

Vacuum chambers are limited in volume and products that go inside are better when they are smaller. PI offers 6-axis precision motion systems, based on parallel kinematics. These hexapod positioners are more compact than conventional multi-axis stages and provide more versatility at the same time, ideal for vacuum based high precision motion and alignment tasks with optics, fibers, and semiconductors.

High performance piezoelectric transducers were sent to the Mars after testing their reliability for 100 Billion cycles. The help to find out if there once was life on Mars.

Piezolelectric sound transducers can be used for wireless downhole communication, sonar applications, and long distance underwater communication up to several kilometers.  PI’s piezo transducer division specializes in the design and manufacture of standard and custom piezoelectric transducers for industrial, medical and research applications.

Ultrasound can be used for industrial inspection and automation - the technology is similar to the one know from medical ultrasonic imaging. Piezoelectric ultrasonic transducers also find applications in non-contact distance measuring, structural health monitoring, object recognition and measuring instruments for volume, filling level, distance and acceleration.

Ultrasound transducers can generate nanoliter droplets, faster and more precise than other technologies. These advantages are used in high performance industrial ink-jet digital printing.  PI's piezoelectric design and manufacturing division specializes in custom designs for industrial applications from non-contact precision dosing to ultrafast drop-on-demand generation.

Active Yaw Control with Gantry XY and XYZ stages allows for error compensation with better straightness and orthogonality. Active yaw control can also be used to make the two bottom linear module stages of the gantry actively rotate over small angles, if the necessary flexure elements have been designed into the gantry system.

Multi-axis stages, and 6-axis hexapod robotic platforms are critical system components for automation in optics, photonics, precision assembly and active alignment type of applications. Hexapod 6-axis stages provide higher versatility compared to conventional multi-axis motion stages.

Direct Drive Linear Stages with Nanometer performance are important components in automation and research, from semiconductor technology to photonics automation.  The video shows different types, with mechanical bearings and air bearings,  3-phase and voice coil linear motors.