Custom NanoPositioning Experience
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Over the last decades, PI has developed many different piezo- driven NanoPositioning stages for applications from precision machining to semiconductors, to fiber alignment.
   
The following examples illustrate the depth of our experience. Some of the systems depicted are standard catalog items, others were designed for a special customer application and are not available off the shelf, and some are subject to non-disclosure agreements and cannot be shown at all.
 

XYΘz Stage, 100 x 100 µm, ±1 mrad, Capacitive Feedback
 
XYZ Stage, 100 x 100 x 20 µm, Capacitive Feedback
 
XYΘz Stage, 200 x 200 µm, ± 2 mrad, Capacitive Feedback
 
X,Y: 100 µm Clear Aperture: 75 x 75 mm Closed-Loop, Capacitive Feedback Height: 20 mm Application: Optical Inspection
 
X,Y: 100 µm Clear Aperture: 50 x 50 mm Closed-Loop, Capacitive Feedback Height: 25 mm
 
X,Y: 100 µm Clear aperture: 50 x 50 mm Capacitive Feedback Special Z-Runout Compensation Application: Metrology
 
X,Y: 100 µm Clear Aperture: 50 x 50 mm Capacitive Feedback 1 nm Flatness Special Z-Runout Compensation Application: Metrology
 
X,Y: 800 µm, Z: 200 µm Capacitive Feedback 6-Axis Error Compensation 6-Axis Digital Controller Application: Metrology
 
X,Y: 100 µm, Super Invar, Capacitive Feedback Sensors, Active Trajectory Control Sub-nm, Sub-µrad Straightness and Flatness, 6-Axis Digital Controller Application: Metrology
 
 
X,XY,XYZ: Versions with 30, 50 and 100 µm Application: Photonics Alignment, Lifescience
 
XY: 7 x 7 µm and 15 x 15 µm Versions, Stainless Steel 40 x 40 x 40 mm SGS and LVDT Sensors Application: Optics Grinding
   
Several Piezoelectric Tilt stages, 1 to 3 mrad Tilt, Titanium, UHV Compatible, Application: X-Ray Monochromators
 
X,Y: 100 µm Active Trajectory Control Sub-nm, Sub-µrad Straightness and Flatness 8 Actuators, 7 Capacitive Sensors 6-Axis Digital Controller Applications: AFM, ATM, etc.
 
X,Y: 100 µm Clear Aperture: 40 mm Closed-Loop: LVDT & Capacitive Sensors Height: 30 mm
 
Z: 15 µm Clear Aperture: 200 x 200 mm LVDT Sensors
 
X,Y: 100 µm Clear Aperture: 100 x 100 mm Closed-Loop, LVDT Sensors
 
X,Y: 100 µm; Z: 15 µm Dimensions: 100 x 100 x 40 mm Capacitive Feedback Sensors
 
X,Y: 100 µm; Z: 15 µm Dimensions 100 x 100 x 65 mm; 25 mm Clear Aperture Capacitive Feedback
 
XY: 100 µm; Z: 5 µm Stainless Steel, Dim: 150 x 150 x 37 mm Differential Eddy Current Sensors
 
Microscope Turret NanoPositioner Z: 150 µm 90 x 100 x 108 mm Clear Aperture 50 mm Capacitive Feedback Sensor
 
Microscope Objective NanoPositioner, Z: 100 µm LVDT Sensor Application: Optical Scanning
 
Optics NanoPositioner, Z: 50 µm, Diam. 129 x 115 mm; Clear aperture 75 mm, 3 Capacitive Feedback Sensors Straightness< 25 nrad
 
Microscope Objective NanoPositioners Z: 90 and 100 µm Capacitive and LVDT Sensors
 
Microscope Objective NanoPositioner Z: 200 and 350 µm Dim: 60 x 60 x 50 mm LVDT Sensor
 
Z Tip/Tilt Stage. Z: 200 µm, Tip, Tilt: 2 mrad Clear Aperture: 100 mm Height 20 mm
 
Z: 12 µm, Clear Aperture 25 mm Capacitive Feedback Sensor
 
Z Stage. Z: 200 µm, Clear Aperture: 100 mm, Height 20 mm
 
 
X: 140 mm PZT Linear Motor Drive Glass Scale Encoder Up to 150 mm/sec
 
X: 12, 25, 38 µm Stainless Steel 16 x 30 x 44 (62, 80) mm Capacitive Feedback Very Fast Response
 
Z: 30 µm Clear Aperture: 200 x 200 mm Closed Loop, LVDT Sensors Application: Optical Inspection
 
X Stage, 15 µm, Capacitive Feedback, Light Weight, Application: Data Storage
 
X: 100 µm Dim: 80 x 80 x 20 mm Clear Aperture 20 x 20 mm Capacitive Feedback
 
X: 100 µm Dim: 80 x 80 x 15 mm Clear Aperture 20 x 20 mm LVDT Sensor
 
X, Y: 100 x 100 µm Dim: 80 x 80 x 30 mm Clear Aperture 20 x 20 mm LVDT Sensor
 
XYZ Tip/Tilt: 100 µm, ± 2 mrad 80 x 80 x 55 mm LVDT Sensor Clear Aperture 20 x 20 mm
 
XYZ, 100 µm Dim: 44 x 44 x 44 mm SGS Sensors
 
 
X: 30 µm Stainless Steel 40 x 79 x 13.5 mm Capacitive Feedback Sensor, Very Fast Response, Ultra-Straight Motion
 
XY: 150 µm Clear Aperture: 200 x 200 mm Height 28 mm Closed Loop, LVDT Sensors Application: Mask Alignment
 
X: 50 µm Dimensions 20 x 12 x 30 mm
 
X: 10 µm, Capacitive Feedback, Titanium
 
X: 10 µm, Capacitive Feedback, Titanium
 
 
X: 5 µm, Steel, Open-Loop, Ultra-Compact & Fast
 
X: 6 µm, Ultra-Compact SGS Sensor
 
XZ: 7 µm Dimensions: 25 x 30 x 15 mm
 
X: 7 µm Stainless Steel SGS Sensor Dimensions: 10 x 15 x 20 mm
 
X: 2 µm (500 V) Stainless Steel Dim: 70 x 160 x 20 mm Very Stiff, Very Straight Motion Application: X-Ray Interferometry
 
X: 80 µm Stainless Steel Dim: 40 x 50 x 12.5 mm LVDT Position Sensor
 
X: 5 µm Stainless Steel
 
X: 5 µm (1000 V) Stainless Steel Dim: 70 x 70 x 20 mm Very Stiff, Very Straight Motion Application: Phase Shift Interferometry
 
X: 25, 45, 65 µm Stainless Steel, UHV Compatible
X, XY, XYZ-Combinations: ±150 µm Application: Photonics Alignment
 
X: 6 mm Coarse, 30 µm Fine
 
X,Y: 100 µm, Θz: ± 50 µrad, Vacuum Compatible (10 -6 torr) Clear Aperture: 120 x 120 mm Application: X-Ray-Lithography LVDT Position Sensor
 
Z: 300 µm LVDT Sensor Application: Wafer Positioning
 
X: ± 200 µm Application: Micro-Manufacturing
 
Z: 1000 µm Application: Microscopy
Z: 700 µm Application: Wafer Positioning
X,Y: 100 x 100 µm, 1 mrad Clear Aperture: 140 x 160 mm LVDT Position Sensors Application: X-Ray-Lithography
 
X,Y: 15 µm Dim: 120 x 120 x 30 mm Very Stiff, Very Straight Motion Vacuum Compatible 10 -6 torr Application: Lithography
X,Y: 100 µm Stainless Steel, UHV Compatible (10 -9 torr) Capacitive Feedback
X,Y: 100 x 100 µm Vacuum Compatible (10 -6 torr) Clear Aperture: 50 x 50 mm Capacitive Feedback
 

X,Y: 100 µm; Coarse X,Y: 25 mm Vacuum Compatible (10 -6 torr) Clear Aperture: 25 x 25 mm Capacitive Feedback
 
X,Y: 50 µm Invar, Steel and Aluminum Versions 700 Hz Resonant Frequency, Tilt < 5 arc sec
   
X:75 µm Aluminum 115 x 115 x 25 mm Very Stiff, Very Straight Motion
 
X: 15 µm Aluminum and Invar Versions Dimensions: 70 x 70 x 20 mm Closed- & Open-Loop Versions Application: Phase Shift Interferometry
 
X:15 µm Stainless Steel 115 x 115 x 25 mm Very Stiff, Very Straight Motion Capacitive Feedback Sensor
 
X Stage: 100 µm Clear Aperture: 85 mm LVDT Position Sensors
X: 200 µm, Clear Aperture 40 x 40 mm, LVDT Sensor
X,Y: 15 x 15 µm (30 x 30 µm) Stainless Steel Application: ATM
 
X: 2 mm Voice Coil Drive LVDT Feedback Sensor Operating Frequency: 30 Hz
 
Translation Stage with PZT Linear Motor X: 50 mm Glass Scale Encoder Up to 50 mm/sec.