New live demonstrations on air bearing stages, direct drive motorized motion systems, and sub-nanometer precision piezo stages backed by decades of PI’s nanopositioning experience.

The PI Group continues its vertical integration strategy to provide a competitive advantage for customers while improving the odds of supply chain sustainability.

PI, a global leader in multi-axis nano positioning and precision motion control, has extended its selection of high resolution XY-tables for applications including laser processing, semiconductor metrology, bio-technology, microscopy, and life sciences.

PI’s new compact 3-axis nanopositioning stage fits in the palm of a hand, provides 10mm XYZ travel, nanometer resolution, and is well suited for high duty cycle 24/7 automation applications. Its high reliability, speed, and precision are supported by non-contact, frictionless linear motors and air bearing guiding systems.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The pivot point demo shows the advantages of a programmable pivot point in hexapod parallel kinematics active alignment systems. The PI H-811 Hexapod 6-axis motion system and P-616 piezo nano-scanner are mounted on a Cascade Microtech wafer prober.

PI's Hexapod 6DOF Parallel Motion platforms have a very useful feature for active alignment and optimization applications - a user programmable pivot point. A high performance hexapod motion controller handles all the necessary coordinate transformations, very easy for the user.

Shannon from Mad City Labs takes you through the company's product line of nanopositioning systems. Learn about nanopositioners and their key attributes with this informative video.