White Papers
White Paper: Reliability & Lifetime of Piezo Actuators
White Paper: Active Vibration Cancellation
Fast Laser Autofocus
Hexpod in Biomechanical Dental Application
Piezoelectric motors and micro-dispensers for medical and industrial applications.
Piezo Motor in Optical Coherence Tomopgraphy
Medical Design Applications based on PI Technology
Piezo Motors Streamlining Medical Design
Piezo Motor in Optical Coherence Tomopgraphy
White Paper Increasing Imaging Resolution with Pixel Substepping
White Paper: Design of Miniature Piezo Motors
NEW PI Products
PILine® M-663 piezo motor stages are the smallest piezo-motor-driven translation stages with linear encoders currently available on the market.
M-663 stages have a new, patented, ultrasonic drive developed by PI; the highly compact, integrated P-661 piezomotor drive can provide accelerations of up to 20 g and velocities of up to 500 mm/s, together with high resolution and holding force.
PIHera Low-Cost, Ultra-Long-Travel PZT Piezo Stage:
Longest Travel Piezo flexure stage with high linearity capacitive feedback.
Now Available in X, XY, Z, XYZ
- Travel to 1800 µm
- Compact Design
- Resolution <1 nm
- Up to 0.02% Position Accuracy
- Vacuum-Compatible Versions
PICMA® High-Performance Monolithic Multilayer Piezo Actuators (LVPZT):
Work up to 150 deg C. Ceramic insulation (a worldwide first).
Ideal for extreme conditions (high temperature, high humidity, vacuum, etc.) Zero outgassing (no polymer insulation).
- Award-Winning Multilayer Piezo Technology
- Low Operating Voltage
- Superior Lifetime Even Under Extreme Conditions
- Excellent Temperature Stability
- High Stiffness
- UHV Compatible to 10-9 hPa
- Sub-Millisecond Response & Sub-Nanometer Resolution
S-334 Ultra-Long-Range 2-Axis Piezoelectric PZT Fast Steering Mirror:
- Optical Deflection to 100 mrad (~6°)
- 1.0 kHz Resonant Frequency with Mirror
- Closed-Loop for Higher Linearity
- 2 Fixed Orthogonal Axes with a Common Pivot Point
- Excellent Temperature Stability
- Precision Flexure Guides
PicoCube SPM & AFM Piezo Stage / Scanner:
P-363 is the smallest, highest precision closed-loop XYZ piezo scanner for AFM, SPM,
nanotechnology, nanomanipulation.
- Resonant Frequency 9.8 kHz
- Ultra-High-Precision Capacitive Feedback
- Parallel-Motion Metrology for Highest Linearity and Stability
- 50 Picometers Resolution
- 5 x 5 x 5 µm Travel Range
Products for Optical Telecommunications
PI has a range of products that are well suited to the telecommunication component manufacturing.
We have lasers, positioning components and test equipment that have been proven to improve performance and
manufacturing throughput of various optical components.
Space Technology for NanoTech: Eliminate Settling Delays
Developed for the space station, Input Shaping® technology is now available for the NanoWorld:
The exclusive Mach™ Throughput Processor™ eliminates resonant ringing in high-speed Nanopositioning
systems, allowing rapid motion without a settling phase. This technique also eliminates resonances
excited in neighboring components, outside the nanopositioning system's servo loop. The result is
significantly increased throughput.
Laser Based Vibration, Speed Measurement & Analysis
NEW PSV-400 Scanning Vibrometer Completely Redsigned!
Download the OFV-5000 Vibrometer Datasheet
Polytec Scanning & Single Point Vibrometers
Polytec laser vibrometers are the most advanced and widely used non-contact vibration measurement and
analysis systems in the world.
Polytec Laser Surface Velocimeter
Polytec Laser Velocimeters measure speed and length of moving surfaces accurately and without contact.
The LSV works on coils, strips, tubes, paper, foil, composite lumber, even hot steel.
