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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.