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Piezoelectric stages boast bigger travel

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Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Jun 8, 2006

New x-y piezoelectric stages provide a record travel range of 1000um and allow nanometrology/precision microscopy instrument designers to probe much larger areas than before.

PI (Physik Instrumente) offers the new closed-loop P-628.2CD x-y piezoelectric stages.

These precision flexure-guided scanning stages provide a record travel range of 1000um and allow nanometrology/precision microscopy instrument designers to probe much larger areas than before.

A lower cost, single axis version is also offered.

Typical applications include scanning probe microscopy, nanometrology, biotechnology, interferometry, nanopositioning, quality assurance and semiconductor technology The long travel range is achieved with a newly designed, friction-free and extremely stiff flexure system, which also offers rapid response and excellent guiding accuracy with trajectory precision in the low-nanometre range.

High acceleration forces are provided by multiple, newly-developed high-force multilayer piezo-stack actuators.

A variety of ultra-low-noise 32bit digital controllers provide fast communications and come with a wide selection of software tools.

Because flexure guides, actuators and sensors are all frictionless and maintenance-free, these nanopositioning systems achieve outstanding levels of reliability.

The integrated multilayer piezo drives are protected against humidity by a patented ceramic encapsulation.

The stages are equipped with noncontact capacitive-sensors and provide motion linearity to 0.02% with effective resolution in the subnanometre range.

PI capacitive sensors are absolute-measuring, direct-metrology devices that boast very high bandwidth and exhibit no periodic errors.

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