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Motorised stages position to 1nm resolution

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Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Mar 27, 2006

One of the smallest motorised stages in the world delivers 50nm incremental motion.

PI offers one of the smallest motorised stages in the world delivering 50nm incremental motion.

The M-110 series translation stages provide linear motion of 5, 15 and 25mm.

They deliver 50nm minimum incremental motion and can be equipped with high-speed piezo drives for scanning or positioning with 1nm resolution.

x, x-y and x-y-z systems are available, and can be combined with the M-116 rotary stage.

Typical applications include: biotechnology, metrology, micromachining, medical technology, micromanipulation and photonics packaging.

Lead screws (higher resolution) and ball screws (higher speed/longer lifetime) are offered, driven by stepper motors (lower cost) and closed-loop servo motors (higher precision).

The encoder on the DC servomotor version features 0.007um resolution per count.

For applications requiring extremely high resolution or very fast scanning, a closed-loop piezo scanner can be mounted on the stages.

It provides 1nm resolution and response times of a few milliseconds.

M-110, M-111 and M-112 can be combined to form x-y, x-z and x-y-z systems for multiple-axis positioning and alignment applications; a rotation stage is also available.

A large variety of PC-based and stand-alone controllers are offered to suit all needs.

Software for alignment applications is also available.

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