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. (read more)

Multi-Axis Alignment Stage for Silicon Photonics Applications (read more)

Ideal for Indexing, Positioning, Scanning, Measuring Technology (read more)

Laser Drilling: Achieving Fast and Precise Laser Beam Focus and Dynamic Workpiece Positioning Using a Unified Controller Approach (read more)

Large selection air bearing rotary tables (spindles) motorized and non-motorized air bearing rotation stages. Standard and custom, for high precision motion control and automation. (read more)

Upcoming technologies for precision motion control including learning-based control algorithms, integration of motion and active damping, active surface shaping and magnetic levitation (read more)

The resolving powers of leading-edge microscopic instrumentation vary dramatically given the sheer variety of tools available to modern scientists. (read more)

PI Introduces a UHV Compatible High-Force Piezo Linear Motor with Nanometer Precision (read more)

The compact M-110, M-111, and M-112 miniature linear stage family from PI is designed for precision positioning, alignment, and micro-motion applications in confined spaces. (read more)

Fast linear stages for flexible multi-axis motion systems strike a favorable balance of performance and price. Ideal for OEMs in industrial automation, laser processing, 3D printing, etc. (read more)

PI now offers new solutions for customers looking for power ultrasonic transducers, such as Langevin transducers. The focus is on high mechanical quality and low power consumption. (read more)

Flexible, Fast Platform for Large-Area Photonic Test & Assembly (read more)

The printing process of individual cells and bio materials requires highly precise 3-axis motion systems to move and position the print head in 3 degrees of freedom, but also exact dosing technologies for the extremely small droplets.

In both cases PI technology can help (read more)

XYT Precision Motion and Positioning Assemblies based on Mechanical Bearing Stages (read more)

XYT 3-Axis Assemblies Improve Quality and Throughput in High Precision Test, Manufacturing, and Quality Assurance Applications (read more)

XYZ Nanopositioning Stage with Air Bearings – Compact 3-Axis Linear Stage with High Dynamics for 24/7 Automation (read more)

Low Cost, High Performance Stepper Motor Translation Stages / Linear Slides for Automation (read more)

Improving Laser Seam Welding Performance for Electronic Packages (read more)

Gyroscopic Stabilization of Working Surface with a Hexapod 6-DOF Motion Platform (read more)

Cost efficient direct-drive linear motor slides provide long travel ranges to 1200mm (72") and high speed of 5m/sec.

Significatnly higher performance compared to ball screw and belt drives. Zero-Maintenance, non contact 3-phase linear motors. (read more)

If optical fibers and silicon photonic chips are enablers for quantum computers of all types, then the photonics industry’s familiar (former) chokepoint of precision alignment is sure to become an issue. (read more)

Multi-Axis Stages – Why Custom Aligned, Tuned, and Error-Corrected XYZ Assemblies are Better (read more)

What's the difference between parallel positioners and stacked serial kinematics? (read more)

Active Fiber Optic Alignment Stages, Micro Manufacturing: Mini Hexapod 6DOF Robotic Motion Platform (read more)

Air Bearing Rotary Table, Rotary Spindle with Large Aperture for Test, Metrology, and Precision Manufacturing (read more)

Lightweight, fast and stable, the unique new ultrasonic motor stages from PI are easy to control and integrate into industry and research applications. (read more)

Motorized Linear Stages for Vacuum and Ultra High Vacuum (read more)

Meet our MVG — most valuable (and popular!) gantry robot
A-341 XY/XYZ platform has speed, high load capacity and accuracy; for 3D printing, laser machining (read more)

What is the Difference between Parallel Positioners and Stacked Serial Kinematics? (read more)

PI has developed a powerful 3D Print System Interface software working direct from STL files. It uses the ACS motion controller’s Smart Processing Commander (SPC) software that offers complete system control in an intuitive interface that draws on all the capabilities of the ACS controller, including XSEG, Advanced Gantry Control, LCM (EtherCAT^® Laser Control Module)... (read more)

Ultra-High Precision Positioning Stages: Linear Motion and Rotary Motion Solutions for the Semiconductor Industry (read more)

Better solutions for system integrators to design and build advanced laser processing systems. (read more)

Applications of PI motion systems are found in the automation of processes in industries including:
Optics & Photonics, Semiconductor, Laser Machining, Micro-assembly, Electronics Test & Measurement, Medical Engineering, Bio-Tech, Life Sciences (read more)

This is a wafer prober made by Cascade Microtech, a Division of Form Factor, and it shows how the hexapod micro robots that are manufactured by PI (Physik Instrumente) are used in an embedded application to validate the health of chips prior to the packaging process. (read more)

The V-508 Series of direct-drive precision linear motor stages provide an ideal platform for integration in optical delay lines combining PI proprietary nanopositioning technologies to achieve sub-nanometer resolution and single nanometer MIM. (read more)

Optical Delay Line Stages – How Do They Work?

Turning Nanometers into Femtoseconds and Attoseconds (read more)

Since piezo motion is based on a solid state effects, piezo-driven systems and scanners can offer greater acceleration and dynamic bandwidth than other drive techniques. (read more)

High_Accuracy Electromagnetic linear motors are often used in performance automation and precision motion control applications. They provide long travel motion, precision and high speed, and acceleration when installed in precision positioning stages. (read more)

Gyroscopic Stabilization of Working Surface with a Hexapod 6-DOF Motion Platform (read more)

Hexapods Enable Precise 6-Axis Patient Positioning Couches for Radiotherapy (read more)

Ultra-responsive automated systems like smart ventilators require highly dynamic elements such as piezoelectric transducers and other piezo components. (read more)

Intensive care is an increasingly important area of hospital patient care, especially in global medical crises like the current COVID-19 pandemic. Viruses and other infections particularly affect people with pre-existing conditions such as renal or cardiovascular diseases. In regard to the treatment and therapy of such illnesses, the demands on the medical devices used are ever increasin... (read more)

5-Axis Stage for Alignment of Optics, Fibers, Photonics and Optomechanical Components (read more)

Compact, Affordable Optical Power Meters for Photonics Alignment Provide High Bandwidth (read more)

Fight Against COVID-19: Precision Motion Control to Enable Genome Sequencing (read more)

PICMA® Stack piezo actuators offer an alternative to piezo tubes: By placing them in a printing head, micro assays can be produced in a very high speed with high accuracy. (read more)

In the fight against virus pandemics like the one we are experiencing at the moment with COVID-19, IVD testing is becoming increasingly important: fast, easy and widely accessible testing methods open up the possibility to adapt therapeutic interventions in terms of personalized medicine to help cure, treat, and prevent diseases. (read more)

PI’s Fast Multichannel Photonic Alignment (FMPA) technology was introduced in 2016. It quickly amassed prestigious honors like the R&D 100 Award and the Lightwave Innovations Award for its revolutionary ability to perform multiple alignment processes in parallel. (read more)