Positioning Equipment

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.

Improved resolution with 24bit DAC, higher power integrated piezo amplifier, ideal for piezoelectric single-axis nanopositioning systems with capacitive position-feedback sensors, it’s compact, affordable, and new from PI.

The next gen piezo focusing stages, new from PI, have longer travel ranges to 800µm, faster step/settle, better guiding precision, and higher resolution.

PI invented fast focusing stages with nanometer resolution more than 30 years ago. Its PIFOC® product family spans hundreds of standard and custom products, optimized for tasks including surface metrology in semiconductor applications, super-resolution microscopy, slide scanning, genome sequencing, and magnetic tweezers.

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.

Motorized Gantry Stages with Direct Drive motors provide higher speed, performance and precision compared to belt-driven gantries or screw driven gantry stages.

High speed and high precision gantry stages and XYZ motion stages provide the basis for industrial highly accurate laser machining and 3D printing processes. Fast linear motors provide frictionless motion with zero wear, in contrast to screw and belt driven gantries and stages. Non-contact linear motors not only provide higher speed and precision but also increased reliability.

PI's Next Generation objective nano-positioners for microscopy and surface metrology provide higher speed, precision and longer travel ranges up to 800µm, along with easier integration. Applications for nano-focusing stages include multiphoton fluorescence microscopy, optical coherence tomography, wafer surface inspection and laser materials processing.

The A-688 Direct-Drive Air Bearing Rotation Table is motorized with a 3-phase high performance direct-drive torque motor. It is guided by air bearings and provides a large aperture - ideal for transmitted light test and metrology applications.

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.