Press Releases from Physik Instrumente (PI) GmbH & Co. KG (62 total)
New piezo nanopositioning system: versatile, fast and compact with large clear a …
Large clear aperture, high control dynamics, fast settling times and compact dimensions: PI launches a new product line of linear nanopositioning systems for a broad…
2 mm Travel Range - 20 Milliseconds Settling Time: New Objective Scanner with Pi …
New microscopy methods, such as two-photon microscopy, make it possible to record 3D stacks with up to 1 mm depth in biological samples. For this…
New Version of M-663 Micropositioning Stage: Benefits of PILine® Drive Technolo …
Cost-effective with 2 µm step size. PI (Physik Instrumente) completes its product line of high-velocity M-663 micropositioning stages.
The new linear stage version M-663.5U is especially…
Small Size and High Resolution: New Miniature Stage is Only 24 mm Wide at a Reso …
Physik Instrumente (PI) has introduced the new LPS-24 series. At only 24 × 33 × 20 mm³, these new miniature positioning stages provide a travel…
Modular Hexapod System for Fast, Economic and Precise Positioning
PI presents a modular concept for six-axis positioning systems. Due to its modularity, the high-precision parallel kinematics can be adapted fast and efficiently to customer…
Convincing by its Price and Performance: New H-820 Hexapod Positions Loads of up …
A linear repeatability of 20 µm, and 200 µrad in the tip/tilt or rotational axes – these are important features of the new H-820 Hexapod…
Dynamic, Precise and Powerful: The New Digital Controller from PI
Thanks to its high output power, the digital single-channel controller E-709.CHG from PI (Physik Instrumente) provides highly dynamic and nanometer-precise operation of piezo-based stages with…
The E-482 Power Amplifier / Controller Outputs 6 Ampere (A) Peak Current for Hig …
For applications, such as material testing for quality control purposes or highly dynamic control of valves in test stands, PI (Physik Instrumente) presents the E-482,…
Award-winning: PI (Physik Instrumente) as exhibitor from the very beginning – …
Precision is the motto – back then and today. PI (Physik Instrumente) has been an exhibitor for 40 consecutive years at the LASER World of…
"The Graceful Elegance of Precision": PI (Physik Instrumente) Combines Aesthetic …
What does it take for humans and technology to make it to the top? What is their driving force? What distinguishes a successful product from…
50 Hexapod systems from PI (Physik Instrumente) for ALMA, largest ground-based t …
50 antennas of the ALMA observatory use high-precision Hexapods from PI. Under extreme ambient conditions of the Atacama Desert, the Hexapods align the sub-reflectors to…
High Precision Linear Positioners
A large variety of high precision linear positioners, XY stages and vertical linear stages is offered by PI miCos. These highly accurate systems are available…
Four Axis Motion Controller: Flexible Device Concept for Specific Adjustments
The new C-884 motion controller from PI permits a vector movement of positioning systems with DC motors in four axes.
The four motor axes are…
Application-oriented research boosts drive technology: A motor of progress
In the coming years, sectors such as the semiconductor industry, life sciences or biotechnology will continue to grow. Increasing requirements in these sectors often affect…
New Linear Positioning Stage from PI miCos Unites Force, Compactness and Positio …
PI miCos has extended its LPS series of linear positioning stages. The drive arrangement of the new, compact LPS-45 stage series is based on a…
Dynamic, Precise and Powerful: The New Digital Controller from PI
Thanks to its high output power, the digital single-channel controller E-709.CHG from PI (Physik Instrumente) provides highly dynamic and nanometer-precise operation of piezo-based stages with…
Extremely Cost-Efficient and Compact - PiezoMove® Linear Actuator P-604 for Ope …
The extremely cost-efficient and compact P-604 lever actuator supple-ments the portfolio of the PiezoMove® series. The linear actuator achieves a travel range of 300 µm…
First Steps Towards a Self-Sufficient Energy Supplier
Does a machine vibrate? Does a plate or a pipe oscillate? In that case, the released energy could be used to locally supply an electronic…
New Compact Controller for Hexapods
Hexapods from PI (Physik Instrumente) are indispensable for high-precision positioning in six axes. The parallel-kinematics Hexapods are offered as a system including a powerful digital…
High Precision in Six Axes
The H-811 miniature Hexapod from PI (Physik Instrumente) has very compact dimensions with a diameter of only 130 mm and a height of 115 mm.…
Cost-Efficient Driver for Cost-Efficient Piezomotors
With the E-870 series for the piezo-based PIShift inertia drives, PI (Physik Instrumente) offers a series of drive electronics at various integration levels. Whether as…
New Compact Linear Drive
PIShift drives are compact and cost-efficient piezo linear drives from PI (Physik Instrumente), the Karlsruhe specialist for positioning systems. The drives use the stick-slip effect…
High-Vacuum Positioning Systems Brochure from PI miCos
Auburn, MA, June 7, 2012 -- PI (Physik Instrumente) LP, a leading manufacturer of precision motion control equipment is now offering the PI miCos vacuum…
New Compact Linear Drive
PIShift drives are compact and cost-efficient piezo linear drives from PI (Physik Instrumente), the Karlsruhe specialist for positioning systems. The drives use the stick-slip effect…
PI USA acquires MICOS GmbH Product Distribution for American Market
Auburn, MA and Irvine, CA, June 21, 2012 -- PI announces the next step in the acquisition of miCos GmbH. PI (Physik Instrumente) LP,…
Motorized Microscope Stage is Driven by High Accuracy Ceramic Linear Motors
Self-Locking Piezo Linear Motors and High Resolution Linear Encoders, Up to 10X Higher Stability
The self-clamping ceramic / ceramic linear motors in the M-687 XY positioner…
PI (Physik Instrumente) Expands Company Management
Karlsruhe – Physik Instrumente (PI) GmbH & Co. KG, the manufacturer of high-precision positioning systems, appointed new managing directors in April 2012 as part of…
Piezo for Medical & Life Sciences: New Brochure Available from PI
Auburn, MA, – Piezo specialist PI (Physik Instrumente) has published a new brochure on medical applications of piezo ceramic actuators, transducers and motion components.…
Fast and Efficient Positioning Drives
PI (Physik Instrumente), the Karlsruhe-based specialist for piezoceramic drive and positioning systems, offers ultrasonic piezomotors for different performance classes with their PILine series. Users can…
PI (Physik Instrumente) acquires a majority of shares in miCos GmbH: A big playe …
The Karlsruhe-based company PI has recently become co-owner of miCos GmbH in Eschebach, Germany. This allows PI to supplement its extensive micro- and nanopositioning portfolio…
Precision without Position Sensor
Phase shifters are used in laser measurement to align optical path lengths. These move optics in the range of a wavelength, which corresponds to an…
Low-Cost Three-Channel Controller from PI
The E-563 control electronics provides maximum resolution in three channels for classic nanopositioning systems. Although the price of this system is less than half of…
Perfectly Aligned Precision
With the new N-664 linear positioning stage, PI (Physik Instrumente) has succeeded in developing a further groundbreaking piezo positioning system of the reference class.
A NEXACT®…
Compact Motion Controller: Nanometer Precision for Multi-Axis Piezo Systems
The performance of precision positioning systems equally depends on their mechanical systems and on the way they are controlled. Physik Instrumente (PI) from Karlsruhe, Germany,…
Low-Profile Vacuum Precision Stage
Confined spaces in vacuum chambers require drives and positioning solutions which are particularly compact. With a height of only 21 mm the M-683.2V4 translation stage…
Ultra-Low-Profile Precision Rotation Stage Thanks to PILine® Technology
With just 15 mm construction height, the M-660 rotation stage from Physik Instrumente (PI) is one of the slimmest micro translation stages on the market.…
Precise and Stable M-687 Microscopy Stages with Direct Drive
Physik Instrumente (PI) offers a new, fast, high-precision XY positioning system which has been optimized for applications with inverse microscopes: The M-687 XY stage. This…
Mini-Hexapod from PI: Six-Axis Motion in Vacuums up to 10-6 hPa
In vacuum chambers, there is very little installation space for applications. Since the object to be moved is not permanently accessible, a flexible placement of…
Compact, Digital Motion Controller for Nanopositioning
The single channel E-709 piezo controller from Physik Instrumente (PI) has been already introduced for piezo-based positioners and scanners which use strain sensors. Since the…
Piezo-Based Linear Drive for Automation Technology
Linear direct drives have advantages over rotating electric motors for rectilinear motions in automation technology because the latter always have to use a spindle to…
They Go Through it With a Fine-Tooth Comb: PIFOC® Piezo Drives for Objectives
More and more techniques in microscopy, today, require an improved resolution. This often requires the combination of a large numerical aperture of the objective, that…
Industrial robot turns into precise machining system
Accurate machining is usually carried out with machine tools or machining centers. This means high costs and workpiece sizes limited by geometrical factors. It would…
Fast steps with nanometer precision
Piezo stepping drives from Physik Instrumente (PI) can be combined with a high-resolution linear encoder for nanometer accuracy over the complete scanning range – and…
Piezo controller with digital linearization
In contrast to conventional analog piezo controllers, the E-609 single- channel piezo controller from Physik Instrumente (PI) has a digital controller which can be optimized…
Precise positioning solutions really can be low cost: Piezoelectric actuators fo …
Those who prefer to use OEM products for technical or financial reasons can now keep the investment costs at a relatively low level even for…
Digital motion controller now also available for low-cost piezo systems
The E-709 singlechannel piezo controller from Physik Instrumente (PI) now opens up the digital technology and its advantages to lower-cost systems in the accuracy class…
Fit for use in high vacuum
Positioning systems and linear actuators which operate on the basis of piezo ceramics are particularly suitable for use in high and ultra-high vacuum at pressures…
Piezocube for 3D structuring
PI's range of high-precision stages – the NanoCube P-611 XYZ nanopositioning systems - prove their ability in new fields of application. The cube sides only…
XY stages with piezo linear motors – faster – low-profile – with new contr …
Physik Instrumente (PI) uses piezoceramic ultrasonic linear motors in many of its PILine positioning systems. This gives the stages not only a much lower profile…
Low-Cost Drive Electronics for Piezo Linear Drives
The compact NEXACT piezo stepping drives from Physik Instrumente (PI) push forward into a new performance class for linear drives: with high forces of 10…
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