Miniaturized stages and manipulators are essential in mobile applications for measuring and medical devices, in industrial microassembly or use for research, e.g. PI’s nanopositioning stages and scanners combine nanometer-precision resolution and guiding precision with minimum crosstalk. They guide the piezo actuator and ensure a straight motion without tilting or lateral offset.Magnetic Levitation & Precision Bearings for NanopositioningMagnetic levitation allows excellent guiding accuracy in a plane, both linear and rotational.Multi-axis motion with nanometer precision and without friction.Positioning in High Vacuum (HV) and Ultrahigh Vacuum (UHV)Careful handling, adequate premises: PI does not only have the necessary equipment for the qualification of materials, components and final products, but also has many years of experience with regard to HV und UHV positioning systems.Find useful explanations of technical terms in the PI Glossary.Take the opportunity to experience our products live and discuss your application with our development and sales engineers.Take the opportunity to experience our products live and discuss your application with our development and sales engineers.We would be pleased to welcome you personally at our exhibition stands all over the world. „Sequencing-by-synthesis“, the currently leading method, is based on signal detection by fluorescence microscopes. Ask for your customization! Piezo drives have made these technical advances possible with their performance and reliability.Imaging processes increase efficiency across a number of fields, ranging from medical engineering to pharmaceutical research and manufacturing of semiconductors.Adjustment of the Focal Planes in Confocal MicroscopyConfocal microscopy is used to detect the structure of the sample surface through the shifting of the focal plane, for example in dermatology.Positioning Solutions for Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence Microscopy (TIRFM)Linear stages adjust the laser beam in the TIRF microscope. Positioning solutions for microscope objectives and sample stages play a decisive role in it.Efficiency has become an important buzzword these days. Piezo drivers integrate high-performance amplifiers specialized for different fields of applications.Motion Controllers & Drivers for Linear, Torque, Stepper & DC Servo MotorsPI develops motion control solutions in-house to best adjust the features to the requirements of both drive and application. PIs drive technologies in comparison: Piezo motors, stepping drives, ultrasonic drives, and piezo inertia drives.Rotating electric motors such as DC or stepper motors are used in connection with screw or worm drives. The drive itself is resistant to magnetic fields.

At the same time, the laser beam control requires precision, dynamics, and reliability.Mechanical engineering and manufacturing technology require fast, reliable and energy-saving drive components. Linear Scale Encoders for Nanometrology & NanopositioningPI uses incremental measurement systems for longer travel ranges, starting from approximately one millimeter. Hexapods are used for moving and precision positioning, aligning and displacing loads in all six degrees of freedom, i.e., three linear and three rotational axes.In a parallel-kinematic, multi-axis system, all actuators act directly on a single moving platform.Hexapod platforms are used for precision positioning and alignment of loads in all six degrees of freedom, three linear axes, and three rotational axes.Motion simulators have higher motion dynamics requirements (shakers).The linearity and repeatability achieved are not possible without highest-resolution measuring devices. You can expect a good working environment as well as personal and professional advancement!PI offers interesting activities to also give students insights into a professional career. Integrated routines make it possible to perform single-axis alignments up to complex, multi-axis fiber array positioning within the shortest possible time. PI offers parallel-kinematic hexapods for these tasks.The term "scientific instrumentation" covers a variety of different applications, starting with microscopy via beamline processes through to the wide field of laboratory automation.Under the extreme conditions of the Atacama Desert, PI hexapods align the subreflectors to the large main reflectors of the ALMA radio telescopes.Double-Crystal Monochromator for an X-Ray SpectrometerThe PI Beamline Instrumentation division’s aim is to develop application oriented solutions, e.g., this monochromator for an X-ray spectrometer.PI provides standard and custom high vacuum compatible positioning systems for materials research with high-energy X-rays.Active vibration isolation reduces settling times, increases precision in measurement and production sequences and achieves high throughput rates.The European - Extremely Large Telescope, in short E-ELT, is the largest terrestrial telescope for scientific evaluation of electromagnetic radiation.Lithographic processes are the reason why chips are getting smaller and smaller and why extremely fine structures can be realized on silicon wafers. The spectrum ranges from piezo actuators to six-axis parallel kinematics which can communicate directly with CNC controls.Piezo Actuators Accelerate Electrical Discharge MachiningPrecision components are manufactured using electrical discharge machining, often in large numbers.