Cutting-Edge Nano Motion Control Technologies for Industrial, OEM, and Research Applications & Domestic Custom Design

PI USA complies with the US laws for export controlled technologies and provides R&D & engineering & repair services as well as applications support.

The PI family of companies employs more than 500 people world wide. PI is known throughout the high-tech world for its leadership in the design and manufacture of Nanometer-Level Motion Control Products, Piezo Ceramics and NanoActuators, Hexapod 6DOF Positioning Systems and Micro Robots.  
ISO 9001 certified since 1994.

PI (Physik Instrumente) L.P., is the U.S. operation of Physik Instrumente (PI) GmbH & Co. KG. PI has provided world class solutions for industry, OEM and research for 4 decades. 

Talk to a PI Application Engineer for your custom or standard solution:
508-832-3456 (EAST)
508-832-3456 x31 (MID-WEST)
949-679-9191 (WEST)

PI US Headquarters, Auburn, MA

PI (Physik Instrumente) L.P. US Head Office
(Auburn, MA).

Features R&D, engineering, repair, sales, service facilities, application labs, a large warehouse, and nanometrology equipment for test & calibration. Compliant with US laws for export controlled technologies. PI USA is ITAR registered, and equipped to handle your COTS or custom piezo / nanopositioning system requirements.

PI (Physik Instrumente) L.P.
16 Albert Str.
Auburn, MA 01501
Email: info@pi-usa.us
Tel: 508-832-3456
Fax: 508-832-0506
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PI US West Coast Office, Irvine, CA
The PI West Coast Office provides sales and applications support for California and the Western part of the USA, Canada and for Mexico.

PI (Physik Instrumente) L.P.
5420 Trabuco Road
Suite 100
Irvine, CA 92620-5743

Email: info@pi-usa.us
Tel: 949-679-9191
Fax: 949-679-9292
Directions



PI Headquarters, Karlsruhe Germany.

PI employs the world's most experienced nanopositioning design teams.
Contact our International Offices

PI Product Lines 
Nanopositioning / Motion Control / Piezo Technology
PI's Nanopositioning products have won many international industry awards for innovative design. Examples are the Hexapod 6 Degree-of-Freedom Micropositioning and Alignment System, the ultra-high resolution Piezoelectric Scanning Stages and Active Optics (Beam Steering Systems). The PI line of piezoelectric actuators and nanopositioning stages are among the most sophisticated nanopositioning systems in the world, allowing extremely precise motion in the shortest possible time.

Tools for Microscopy, Medical & Biotechnology
  • Well Plate Scanners
  • PIFOCŪ Objective Scanners
  • Super-Resolution Microscope Stages
  • Z-Stack Imaging Stages
  • Laser Autofocus
  • Piezo Steppers
  • Fast Steering Mirrors
  • 6-Axis Robots


Nanopositioning Products
  • Piezo Nanopositioning Stages
  • Ultrafast PZT NanoAutomation® Systems
  • Fast Beam Steering Systems
  • Scanning Stages for Microscopy
  • Mask-Alignment Stages
  • Ultra-fast Piezo Nanopositioning Actuators & Stages
  • Capacitive Sensors, 0.1 nm Resolution
  • Closed & Open Loop PZT Translators, 
  • Piezo Drivers and Controllers.


Micropositoning Products
  • 6-DoF Hexpods
  • Linear Actuators
  • Motorized Translation Stages
  • Rotation Stages
  • Linear Slides
  • Cost-Effective Motion Controllers
  • Photonic Alignment Engines
  • Fiber-Alignment Systems
  • Hybrid Low-Inertia Micro/Nanopositioning Systems
  • Ultra-Low-Inertia Micromotion Robots for Automated Photonic alignment


Piezo Technology:
  • Standard & Custom Piezo Ceramics & Actuators.
  • Closed and Open-Loop Piezo-Ceramic Actuators
  • Piezo Drivers and Power Amplifiers
  • High Voltage Power Supplies.
  • High-Load PZT Ceramics (8 tons) for Machining Applications
  • Multi-Layer PZT Actuators.
  • PZT Benders for Valve and Switching Applications.
  • Special PZT/Piezo ceramics for fiber-optic tuning & filters
  • PZT Fine-Alignment-Engines
Piezo Materials
 


View inside one of PI's Nanopositioning "Fractals"
PI's production is organized in independent entities employing "Kanban" demand flow techniques for optimized work flow. Kaizen seminars help to continuously improve quality.
 
World-Class Million-$ NanoMetrology Lab
PI's Nanopositioning products are world-known for their precision. To continuously improve our products and to verify the performance, we have designed a six-fold-isolated room-in-room metrology lab, on a separated foundation in the basement of the factory.

Sub-nanometer resolution measurements not only require highest precision measuring equipment (we use world-class laser interferometers and capacitive sensors), but also an environment with extremely high temperature stability and total absence of vibration. The acoustic sound waves of a conversation alone can excite vibration in the range of several 10 nanometers. That's why the door to our metrology lab resembles that of a safe.


Six-fold-isolated nanometrology
lab is key to repeatable high-
precision measurements.
 
Custom Piezo Ceramic Production Capabilities for Highest Performance Solid State Actuator and Sensor Applications.

PI Ceramic, a member of the PI family of companies, currently employs more than 80 people dedicated to producing world-class PZT ceramic materials for actuators and sensors. Production equipment includes tape casting, sputtering, automated metallization, grinding and cutting machines.
PI Ceramic offers the only ceramic-insulated multilayer PZT actuators in the world.

Talk to a PI Application Engineer for your custom or standard solution!
Call:
508-832-3456 (EAST)
815-793-3776 (MID-WEST)
949-679-9191 (WEST)