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PI (Physik Instrumente) L.P. has published these technical articles:
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Ultrasonic motors can avoid sample vibration and provide stable positioning that allows for superresolution imaging of fluorescence during protein binding....
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Ultrasonic handpieces are being used with growing frequency in medical applications, e.g., for minimally invasive surgical procedures and in dentistry. These instruments, which include ultrasonic...
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Terminology of Critical Requirements for Motion Systems used in DNA Sequencers...
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The LISA Project, led by ESA and supported by NASA and other space agencies, is a scientific endeavor to detect and study gravitational waves from space....
(Linear Actuators)
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Piezo Ceramics and Custom Actuator Designs...
(Optoelectronics)
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The study of ultrafast processes is gaining importance. A new generation of delay line stages provides higher temporal resolution and precision....
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Modern image stabilization technology to the rescue...
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Hexapod motion platforms provide a good basis to compensate for motion in 6 degrees of freedom....
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For high-dynamics applications, bandwidth limitations of the controller and the piezo mechanism can be limiting factors. Several control methods are now available in commercially available controllers...
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"What makes magnetic levitation so unique is the contactless virtual bearing we can achieve within our control system." Our expert on parallel kinematics and magnetic drives, Dr. Christian Rudolf,...
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Most of us are familiar with genetic identification for forensic and ancestry investigations, but there are numerous use cases of DNA in biochemistry and nanotechnology which receive much less...
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n this interview, Nikta Jalayer, Director of Business Development, talks about how the engineers at PI's Silicon Valley Tech Center solved the first light detection problem in photonics alignment....
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There are many optics and metrology-related applications which require a stable work surface in an unstable environment, whether that environment is vibrating, in an aircraft, on a vessel at sea, or...
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Parallel kinematics positioning systems are available for high vacuum and high accuracy applications. Use of vacuum compatible material, drives, and sensors was discussed. With linear guided hexapod...
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Fast Scanning and Characterization at Wafer Level...
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In the production of chips and microchips, it is necessary to separate the individual dies from the wafer. In this process, quality and precision are crucial for all further post-fab operations. Laser...
(Machine and Motion Controllers)
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Modular Photonics Alignment Systems Enable Production Advances for SiP Devices...
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Combined Motion Technologies for High Precision, High Aspect Ratio and Fast Drilling...
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In this blog article, we are reporting on new applications of miniature six-axis hexapod positioning systems in the realm of structured microscopy, fabrication of optical elements, and radionuclide...
(Linear Actuators)
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How to make it easier for system integrators to design and build advanced systems for a new age of laser applications...
(Machine and Motion Controllers)
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Advanced motion control algorithms overcome the limits of traditional feedback and feedforward control and can prevent or compensate for repetitive errors by learning from previous executions and thus...
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In this concept, magnetic levitation is used as multi-axis precision positioning concept based on non-contact propulsion and guiding principles. High performance motion control algorithms, low noise...
(Motor Controls and Drives)
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An open and modular controller & software platform supporting different motion control drive technologies and the integration of third-party modules and providing high-bandwidth...
(Linear and Rotary Motion Components)
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Motion control specialists Christopher Mock and Dr. Simon Kapelke give insights into the development process of PI's active damping and vibration compensation solutions....
(Inspection Tools and Instruments)
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Engineers Jonas Reiser and Mathias Winter give insights into the development process of PI's surface shaping solutions for the future....
(Robotics)
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Hexapod 6-axis parallel kinematics positioners are more compact and flexible compared to traditional stacks of single axis stages. Their ability to change the pivot point with a single software...
(Robotics)
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A Hexapod Robot is a 6-axis, parallel-kinematics machine often used for automated precision positioning and alignment of parts and components ranging from miniature optics to large panels. As the...
(Machine Vision Equipment)
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Recent research has revealed that image-based methods can enhance accuracy and safety in laser microsurgery. In this study, non-rigid tracking using surgical stereo imaging and its application to...
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When it comes to developing a next generation machine or process, motion system designers often ask the question whether to employ mechanical bearings or air bearings....
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Magnetic levitation, often referred to as maglev, is a frictionless motion technology that uses magnetic fields to levitate and propel objects. It is used in various applications, best known from...
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Emerging technologies like Quantum Communications, Quantum Computing, Nanosats, LIDAR, optical logic, as well as the need to process, store, and convey more data at higher speeds is relying heavily on...
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Ultrasonic transducers are used as very compact instruments in IVD devices. Using ultrasound, they break up cell structures completely without contact and, therefore, without contamination...
(Optical Components)
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When it comes to steering light precisely in two dimensions, optical system designers have several established technologies at their disposal. Examples include galvanometer mirror scanners (galvo...
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Granite-based XY-Theta positioning stages with direct-drive motors and air bearings for ultra-high precision 3-axis motion...
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High Performance XYT 3-Axis Assemblies with Industrial Automation Controllers for Machine Builders...
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High Performance Motion Systems with Industrial Automation Controllers for Machine Builders...
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When it comes to situations where a high-performance multi-axis positioning system with 4, 5, and 6-axis motorized stages is required, the traditional approach of stacking individual single-axis...
Speed up Industrial Camera Manufacturing with Active Alignment: Adimec's Advanced Production Process
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The manufacturing of a high-performance industrial camera is a complex process that requires a lot more than the use of fasteners, connectors, and adhesives to integrate all electrical and mechanical...
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Understanding of the use of PILine® precision motion stages in strong magnetic fields, or in environments where the drive needs to behave neutrally in a magnetic sense....
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Differences and Similarities of High Precision Multi-Axis Positioning Systems Concepts...
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Improving Quality in Laser SEam Welding of Electronic Packages with Galvo Scanners...
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Display Technologies in Comparison: LCD - LED - OLED - MicroLED...
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OCT has long been used in ophthalmology but recently also finds growing application in dermatology, for example to fight skin cancer. In comparison to conventional invasive diagnostic measures, OCT...
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Load and Inertia are the Enemy: The Parallels of Precision Automation and Performance Cars...
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Viruses, especially emerging and re-emerging positive-sense single-stranded RNA ((+)ssRNA) viruses, such as the severe acutre respiratory syndrome coronavirus - 2 (SARS-CoV-2), have caused several...
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Having been predicted by physicists in the early 20th century, it wasn't until the turn of the 21st century that the laser became a standard tool for material scientists and engineers...
XY-Linear Motion - The Difference between Planar XY-Stages, Integrated XY-Stages, and Stacked Stages
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True Planar Motion - What is a Planar XY Stage?...
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Multi-axis precision motion at the micron or sub-micron level is required in many industrial automation processes as well as in test and metrology applications related to optics, photonics,...
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Algorithms, Motorized Fiber Positioners, and Automated Sub-Systems for Silicon Photonics and Optics Alignment...
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Leveraging the multi-axis alignment features of an industry workhorse...
(Linear and Rotary Motion Components)
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The mainstreaming of photonics - the science and application of light waves - keeps accelerating. Pandemic-driven data-consumption has hastened adoption of silicon photonics (SiPh) to enable new...
(Semiconductor Manufacturing Equipment)
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2-Axis Motion Systems based on Polar Coordinates vs. conventional XY Stages...
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How to Consistently Verify the Performance of Nanopositioning Motion Control Equipment...
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The need for higher performance computing and data-communication speed has led to the advent of silicon photonics. In addition, to higher performance, silicon photonics can also reduce the power...
(Specialized Industrial Products)
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The emerging field of quantum technology (quantum computing, quantum photonics, quantum communication) has snapped into view with surprising speed over the past two years. Once the stuff of science...
(Optical Components)
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Optical alignment and micro-optic positioning are challenging, time-consuming processes. Tiny positional variations in photonic and optical manufacturing can mean the difference between success and...
(Sensor Chips)
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The first computer link using optical fibers was commissioned four decades ago to safeguard communications from electromagnetic interference at the Cheyenne Mountain strategic command center. Since...
(Machine and Motion Controllers)
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Over the span of forty years, the field of precision positioning and motion control has vaulted forward in broadly beneficial ways....
(Optical Components)
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By giving tomorrow's wheeled computers a 3D view of the world, objects can be more accurately categorized and evaluated in real time. In this way, LIDAR is the enabling technology for the coming...
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Compared to the devices typical of the telecom revolution of two decades ago, today's typical Silicon Photonics (SiP) devices present more channels, smaller form factors, and exponentially higher...
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Advanced motion control algorithms perform rapid tracking and ultrafast fast step and settle operations....
(Lasers)
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High Precision Tip/Tilt Mechanisms Keep Laser Beams Stabilized and Precisely on Target...
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Google's Pixel 2 has one of the most advanced cameras found in smartphones today. In a recent YouTube video by "Nat & Friends" on how Google built the Pixel 2 Camera, PI's H-860 "shaker" hexapod...
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Nanometer precision was not really required when Intel developed their first microchips. The structure widths of the Intel 4004 processor back in 1971 were a generous 10 microns, or 1/100 of a...
(Optical Components)
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Active alignment in 6 degrees of freedom provides the best conditions for high image quality when it comes to aligning multiple lenses. Hexapod micro-motion robots are a novel technology that delivers...
(Optical Components)
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Low light conditions create difficult conditions for imaging applications from astronomy to microscopy. Low light intensity means neither the resolution of the chip nor the exposure time for changing...
(Microscopy)
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3D printing and additive manufacturing are gaining traction in prototyping and industrial manufacturing of complex parts. Typical 3D printers can produce feature sizes down to a few 10 microns....
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Computing's inflection points occur when new user-interface concepts enter the mainstream. The advent of the graphical user interface is one example; the touch interface, now universal on smartphones...
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What Tools are Required...
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Turning Nanometers into Femtoseconds and Attoseconds...
(Motors)
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Linear Motors and Piezo Drives Solve Different Problems...
(Optical Components)
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Today, very precise path length control in optical delay lines are critical to techniques in transient absorption spectroscopy (using pump-probe), Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR), and...
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Laggy Communication via Satellites?...
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Advanced software modules integrate gantry control and laser control....
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Fluorescent microscopy is especially useful for cytodiagnostics - the microscopic examination of cells in body tissue or fluids - and provides insights into fundamental research, for example, the...
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A precision gantry stage or gantry system is sometimes called a linear robot or Cartesian robot. Gantry robots typically provide overhead motion in 2 or 3 linear degrees of freedom (X-Y and X-Y-Z) and...
(Motion and Control Maintenance and Repair)
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Better solutions for system integrators to design and build advanced laser processing systems...
(Material Fabrication and Processing Services)
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When it comes to material processing, less (time) is often more. Ultrafast lasers offer extremely short pulsewidths. Often optimized process parameters include other specs as well such as wavelength,...
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Desktop nanoprinter based on a novel, highly scalable, and versatile photolithographic technology and XYZ piezo-driven nanopositioning stage finds applications in photonics, meta-materials,...
(Motor Controls and Drives)
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Hexapods (derived from Greek for 6 legs) are motion platforms controlled by six actuators (struts). They all act together on one platform and enable movements in six degrees of freedom....
(Motor Controls and Drives)
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Modern laser processing, machine vision, and metrology systems rely on precision motion and automation mechanisms - and the ability to provide synchronized multi-axis dynamic motion performance with...
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Using Gantries and ACS-Based Motion Controllers...
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Hexapod technology and available precision parallel positioners...
(Piezoelectric Devices)
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How PI's Piezo Steering Mirror Technology is Helping ESA and NASA Unlock the Sun's Secret...
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How to Connect a Safety Light Barrier to a Hexapod System...
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Piezo Stage FAQs...
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Piezoelectric transducers are at the heart of many a medical apparatus. Chronic respiratory diseases like mucoviscidosis, asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) but also bronchitis,...
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How PI supports Additive Manufacturing and Laser Materials Processing Applications...
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100 Billion Cycles - Can an Actuator be Designed to Provide this Kind of Reliability?...
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Administering vaccinations is a vital prevention of viral or bacterial infections. The topic was already studied in early Asian cultures and finally experienced its breakthrough in the 19th century...
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Piezo technology offers various possibilities to improve them: Using piezo transducers, for example, makes intensive care devices such as infusion systems smarter and facilitates vital patient...
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Gantry motion systems and split bridge motion systems are often used in industrial production, testing, and additive manufacturing. A gantry usually consists of a base plate (often granite) and two...
(Motor Controls and Drives)
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Piezo, Voice Coil & Linear Motors for High Dynamics & Precision...
(Carbides, Ceramics and Glass Materials)
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In vitro diagnostics (IVD) opens up numerous possibilities to diagnose and detect diseases and other conditions at an early stage. Tests are performed using samples of blood, saliva, urine or tissue...
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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...
(Optoelectronics)
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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...
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A piezo nanopositioning stage is defined as a positioning device capable of nanometer or sub-nanometer resolution....
(Optical Components)
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PI's Fast, Multi-Channel Photonics Alignment (FMPA) technology is a set of firmware-level commands built into its highest-performance digital nanopositioning and hexapod controllers. These commands...
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In order to maintain precision and reliability- the two key factors to the success of industrial processing - motion and positioning equipment has to be designed accordingly. These properties are...
(Microscopy)
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PI explores the key principles of motion platforms in advanced microscopy...
(Linear Actuators)
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Linear stages and automation actuators are essential components in additive manufacturing (AM) processes, providing the quick and precise mechanical responses necessary for generating intricate...
(Motor Controls and Drives)
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When faced with challenging alignment applications, precision motion system designers often have to live with an unsatisfactory compromise between accuracy, force, and dynamics.
A new hybrid approach...
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Precise Sample Positioning is Crucial for Conclusive Images...
(Piezoelectric Devices)
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Piezo ceramics - like all ceramics - are brittle materials, very good at handling compressive loads, but sensitive to shear, bending, and tensile loads. To protect the piezo material from unwanted...
(Optical Components)
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Investigations on interactions and forces at the level of individual molecules assist in gaining a great deal of information on chemical and mechanical properties or biological functions. Special...
(Encoders and Resolvers)
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An In-house Development for Picometer Resolution over Large Travel Ranges...
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How to Combine Motorized Stages, Piezo Stages and Sample Holders...
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Novel Hybrid Actuators Combine High Force, Nanometer Precision, and High Dynamics...
(Piezoelectric Devices)
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Motorized Miniature Actuators based on Piezo-Ratchet Effects Provide Reliable and Remote Alignment of Beam Paths, Sensors, Optical Assemblies...
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During surgery, it is critical that the surgeon has real time evaluation of blood vessels in order to make assessments related to the flow of blood. Piezo transducers are at the core of modern blood...
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The new area of silicon photonics is being driven by us. We walk around with supercomputers in our pockets. We consume streaming media. We participate in social networks. We benefit from personalized...
(Robotics)
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The latest generation of PI hexapod controllers with integrated EtherCAT interface now make it very easy for users to integrate hexapods into automation systems without the need for to perform...
(Machine and Motion Controllers)
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In a recent test, we used a gyroscope to provide feedback to a hexapod controller in order to compensate for multi-degree-of-freedom disturbances and to maintain a horizontal top plate during the...
(Lasers)
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Piezo driven laser focus shifter module advances speed and quality in laser machining applications...
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Motion simulation is crucial in the evaluation of many devices, including vibrating testing of vehicles or airplanes, response testing of accelerometers or gyroscopes and image sensors such as those...
(Linear Position Sensing)
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Precision motion systems always exhibit some amount of positioning inaccuracy (or position error) due to various factors. These errors can be measured using external measurement devices, such as a...
(Linear Position Sensing)
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Designers of precision motion and positioning equipment usually deal with three types of errors: repeatability errors, non-linear accuracy errors, and linear errors caused by thermal effects....
(Microscopy)
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Super-Resolution microscopy allows insights into intracellular processes and interactions at a molecular level. During the past two decades, advances in the field have led to significantly higher...
(Linear Actuators)
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How 6-DOF Alignment Systems Contribute to the Success of the Event Horizon Telescope...
(Machine and Motion Controllers)
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...gains in productivity and quality come from high performance positioning systems, motion controllers, and software along with higher speed communication and synchronization between motion...
(Motors)
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Piezo motors can provide motion in extremely small increments, smaller than one nanometer. This is due to solid state effects in the piezo material, where small changes in the electric field affect...
(Linear and Rotary Motion Components)
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What machine builders want in a linear stage...
(Linear Actuators)
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Flexure-guided and motion-amplified actuators and positioning stages provide convenience and performance for the OEM designer and scientist....
(Piezoelectric Devices)
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This paper describes the results of self-heating tests for various cooling measures....
(Piezoelectric Devices)
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There are several methods to quantify the surface accuracy of aspheres, both contact and non-contact devices are used by different manufacturers...
(Piezoelectric Devices)
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Medical engineering and life-science disciplines have multi-faceted requirements for motion and positioning equipment: the spectrum spans from ultrasonic transducers to simple low-energy drive...
(Machine and Motion Controllers)
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Traditional linear and rotary "micropositioning" stages are based on servo and stepper motor-driven leadcrews and ballscrews and mechanical bearings. They are classical components for precision motion...
(Machine and Motion Controllers)
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New Motion Control Approaches Deliver Improved Accuracy and Faster Time to Market...
(Machine and Motion Controllers)
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Compact 6-Axis parallel precision manipulator with nanometer resolution helps the goal of designing a single universal instrument for the use in different full-field X-ray diffraction imaging methods....
(Machine and Motion Controllers)
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EtherCAT®: Ethernet for Control Automation Technology and its Advantages for Precision Motion Systems...
(Piezoelectric Devices)
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A discussion with leading piezo experts on ceramics, nanopositioning, intelligent piezo systems, and weather stations...
(Piezoelectric Devices)
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3D Computerized Tomography (CT) and micro computed-tomography (micro-CT) systems are used to study the internal structures of a wide variety of material samples....
(Spectroscopy)
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Dr. Markus Simon, head of the PI miCos beamline instrumentation group explains a special double hexapod PKM system designed for synchrotron x-ray spectroscopy, for complex material testing and...
(Piezoelectric Devices)
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What has become known as the "Incompleteness Theorem" asserts that no statement can prove its own truth. One of the well-known analogies is that no one can lift themselves up in the air by their own...
(Piezoelectric Devices)
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What is the Difference between a Piezo Actuator and a Programmable Piezo Shim?...
(Linear Actuators)
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PI and Fraunhofer IOF Cooperate on New Large Scale Adaptive Optics Project...
(Linear Actuators)
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Motion drive and control technologies are advancing rapidly. This means engineers have access to an expanding spectrum of options to leverage previously unattainable performance and form factors....
(Robotics)
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Optimization of MTF and throughput along with optical image stablization and calibration are benefits of using hexapod micro-motion robots - a novel motion technology that provides all six degrees of...
(Linear Actuators)
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Astronomical telescopes usually employ active position control for primary mirror surfaces using motorized mechanical actuators. The motion needed is generally quasistatic, to compensate gravitational...
(Linear Actuators)
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Hybrid Concept Using Piezo / Voice Coil and Screw Drives for the ELT Telescope...
(Bearings and Bushings)
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Most motion applications are perfectly well-served by mechanical bearing guidance; but there are many cases where precision, angular repeatability, and geometric performance must be optimal or where...
(Positioning Stages, Slides and Guides)
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Size matters in miniaturization and automation - smaller is usually better. Traditional electromagnetic motors have limitations when it comes to shrinking dimensions while maintaining high efficiency...
(Robotics)
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Hexapods, six-legged parallel-kinematic machines, are quickly gaining ground in a broad range of industrial automation applications after "learning" how to directly communicate with PLC or CNC...
(Positioning Stages, Slides and Guides)
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Many processes in advanced research and industrial manufacturing can only be performed in a vacuum, such as thin-film sputtering and ion milling, and technologies formerly reserved for exotic...
(Machine and Motion Controllers)
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Vacuum applications are of growing importance due to technologies that can only be applied in vacuum or cryogenic environments....
(Linear and Rotary Motion Components)
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Repeatable multi-axis motion simulation can help tweak advanced algorithms in image stabilization systems and verify the performance of opto-mechanical or electronic stabilizers....
(Piezoelectric Devices)
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From the Physical Effect to Industrial Use...
(Piezoelectric Devices)
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Piezo actuators convert electrical energy directly into mechanical energy and vice versa and allow for motions in the sub-nanometer range. There are no friction elements that limit resolution....
(Piezoelectric Devices)
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Flying may once have been a privilege of the gods but today, traveling by air is taken for granted. The motto is larger, faster, and further but also safety first. Whatever component used in an...
(Motors)
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Piezoelectric motors are used in many industrial and commercial applications.
Various piezoelectric motors are available in the market. All of the piezoelectric motors use the
inverse piezoelectric...
(Linear and Rotary Motion Components)
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On December 3, 2015, the European Space Agency (ESA) launched the LISA Pathfinder spacecraft, marking the birth of the next phase of an incredible project that will one day help scientists look at the...
(Linear and Rotary Motion Components)
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Almost 4 years after Curiosity landed on Mars, it is still up and running - and while it has not discovered current life forms, the basic question whether Mars could have once supported an environment...
(Motor Controls and Drives)
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PI found a solution based on its compact, high stability PiezoWalk linear motor - a tried and proven technology used on many semiconductor and high-energy physics applications in the past....
(Piezoelectric Devices)
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Ultrasound has been used in nature for navigation above and under water. Bats and dolphins are but two species who perfected the transmission, reception, and processing over millions of years....
(Optical Components)
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Industry-leading speed and capability is an enabler for "photonomics" from wafer to packaged device....
(Positioning Stages, Slides and Guides)
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PiezoWalk principle shows advantages for Monochromator crystal fine adjustment....
(Positioning Stages, Slides and Guides)
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As new satellite programs become more popular, such as NASA's CubeSat program, the need for satellite test systems is becoming more urgent....
(Positioning Stages, Slides and Guides)
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PI recently built a large 300mm diameter rotary air bearing stage for use in a synchrotron beamline test facility. The beamline, when finished, will be used for Macromolecular Crystallography....
(Optical Components)
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Piezo motion-based mechanisms provide a variety of features that are highly sought after in life-science and medical engineering applications, such sterile ceramic designs and lubricant-free drives....
(Positioning Stages, Slides and Guides)
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An insidious nanoscale instability process is the quasi-asymptotic settling due to lubricant flow processes in drive, alignment and adjustment elements such as lead-screws and micrometer drives. It...
(Positioning Stages, Slides and Guides)
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While conventional positioning systems convert the rotary motion of a motor into linear motion using a spindle, PILine® positioning systems are based on a special direct drive. This completely...
(Positioning Stages, Slides and Guides)
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The single molecule force spectrometer described in this paper uses of fast and highly linear piezo stage. This multi-axis stage (model P-313 PicoCube) can run in open loop and provide closed-loop...
(Positioning Stages, Slides and Guides)
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This white paper is intended to provide a better understanding of what this wear is and what it means in terms of product lifetime. Furthermore, it focuses on showing why and under which circumstances...
(Inspection Tools and Instruments)
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A common application in which an air bearing is specified is scanning. Scanning involves moving either a work-piece or an optic at a constant velocity, while a reading or writing operation takes...
(Positioning Stages, Slides and Guides)
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The combination of "coarse" precision screw drives for long distance motion and ultra-high resolution actuators such as piezo and voice-coil-based systems allows combining travel ranges up to hundreds...
(Microscopy)
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Electron microscopy allows investigations with extremely high lateral resolution down to a range of less than one nanometer. However, this places great demands on the imaging elements. And, of course,...
(Positioning Stages, Slides and Guides)
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When working with air bearings, we often describe the quality of motion as one of the key factors in selecting an air bearing; specifically, the straightness and flatness of travel of linear bearings...
(Linear Position Sensing)
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The noise measured by the external metrology (laser) contains the sum of all mechanical and electrical sources - the amplifier noise, the servo noise, the sensor noise, the vibrational noise from...
(Microscopy)
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Very often individual classical microscopic methods are no longer sufficient in terms of optical resolution or information content. The combination of different microscopic methods yields more...
(Microscopy)
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Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is used for surface measurements with resolution down to atomic levels - dimensions that are far beyond even the highest resolution optical microscopes. AFM is a...
(Positioning Stages, Slides and Guides)
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Thanks to this study, magnetic linear drives now allow for motion in 6 axes with positioning and guiding accuracy,never before achieved, in the range of a few nanometers. This is based on a...
(Linear Actuators)
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Piezoelectric multilayer actuators are the driving force behind the most challenging nanopositioning applications. These types of actuators have been in use for about two decades and have reached...
(Linear Actuators)
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Increasingly, DAC's are a limiting factor in nanopositioning resolution, especially in the latest millimeter-travel stages. A newly patented technology adds up to 10 bits of resolution to virtually...
(Electrical and Electronic Contract Manufacturing)
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Sub-nanometer precision and accuracy plus high positioning bandwidth have made piezo nanopositioners essential for track profiling applications in spin-stand applications. However,(1) relentlessly...
(Semiconductors)
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Requirements from Semiconductor Industry for Next Generation Actuators...
(Material Handling and Packaging Services)
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Alignment of collimated photonic elements remains a costly manual process for many device manufacturers. Automation here is as attractive as it is in other photonic packaging operations-the improved...
(Electrical and Electronic Contract Manufacturing)
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A breakthrough in multilayer lead zirconate titanate (PZT) production technology replaces polymer coating with ceramic insulation and doubles the operating temperature range....
(Solids and Powder Processing Equipment)
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Nanotechnology requires extreme high resolution and accuracy and at the same time long travel range. Improvement in accuracy can be achieved with mechatronic design principals and integration of piezo...
(Linear Actuators)
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New developments in the semiconductor industry and in the research areas of materials and life sciences are leading to greater and greater need for nanopositioning devices. Many applications like...
(Linear Actuators)
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Astronomical telescopes usually employ active position control for primary mirror surfaces using motorized mechanical actuators. The motion needed is generally quasistatic, to compensate gravitational...
(Optical Components)
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Many scanning, alignment and spectroscopy applications require optical power metrology coordinated with motion, with positioning precisions that often necessitate piezo-class motion devices....
(Medical)
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Dental biomechanics deals with the interactions between dental materials, treatment instruments or dentures and the reaction of teeth, biological tissues, etc. to mechanical stresses. A wide spectrum...
(Linear Actuators)
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PI Ceramic piezoelectric actuators offer today's motion engineer and scientist a practical way to achieve extremely high positioning accuracy, shortest possible response times, best dynamic operation...
(Linear Position Sensing)
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This technote reports on recent advancements in nanopositioning technology, such as parallel kinematics, active trajectory control, new control algorithms for vibration suppression and tracking error...
(Linear Actuators)
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The piezoelectric effect is often encountered in daily life. For example, in small butane cigarette or gas grill lighters, a lever applies pressure to a piezo-electric ceramic creating an electric...