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Technotes & Papers

PI NanoPositioning and MicroPositioning Solutions have helped customers in many industrial fields and research labs to achieve higher precision faster. Download the papers below or request a catalog for more information on our products.
 
Biotech, Microscopy
PDF  Control Technology Helps Reduce Errors in High-Speed Scanning Applications. Reprint from 2004 issue of Biophotonics International. 1.4 MB PDF.
PDF  Development of an optical tweezer combined with micromanipulation for DNA and protein nanobioscience (260 kB PDF file).
Features P-500 series XYZ PZT nanopositioning stages, and M-126 micropositioning stages
PDF  Adapting a Compact Confocal Microscope System to a Two-Photon Excitation Fluorescence Imaging Architecture (500 kB PDF file).
Features P-721 PIFOC Objective Nano-Focus Devices
Parallel Kinematics Positioning Systems (Hexapods, etc.)
HTML  Low-Inertia Parallel-Kinematics Systems for Submicron 
Alignment and Handling (on www.Parallemic.org) (HTML file)
Nano-Metrology, Semiconductors, Datatech
PDF  IBM Interferometric Metrology Tool for Data Storage and Semiconductors employs  custom PI long-range, multi-axis piezo nanopositioning stage. Paper courtesy Dr. G. Brasen and Dr. M. Löffler, IBM - E&TS - Mainz, Germany
PDF  Repealing Moore’s Law: Trajectory-Control Advancements for NanoPositioning Subsystems (from Semicondutctor Fabtech, Issue 12, 2000)
PDF  Advances in Sensors, Flexure Design and Digital Control significantly increase precision of PZT NanoPositioning Stages (500 kB   PDF)
HTML  New Technology Solves the Resolution/Speed Tradeoff 
InputShaping eliminates the settling phase in data storage nanopositioning applications. 
Article from  Datatech, Isseu 4, p. 155-159
Aerospace Engineering, Piezo Actuation at Cryogenic Temperatures
PDF  Accelerated lifetime test of PI Multilayer PICMA® piezo actuators in ILC superconducting cavities (SC) equivalent to 10 years of operation. By LASA, Milano, Italy.  
PDF  Control of a Particle-Laden Jet Using a PI High-Displacement 
Piezo Actuator and High-Power Linear Amplifier (PDF)
NanoPositioning Technology
PDF 
HTML  		Nanopositioning: Fighting the Myths. From optics.org, OLE (Opto Laser Europe), November 2004
PDF  Why Nanopositioning is not as simple as 1-2-3. (PDF)
Photonics
PDF  High-Speed Photometer and Piezo Scanning Stages increase throughput in alignment, spectroscopy applications. Reprint from the July 2004 issue of PHOTONICS SPECTRA.
PDF  Integrating Real-Time Optical Metrology with high-throughput piezo motions (PDF). This technote features the PI F-130 / F-131 hybrid alignment engine, the CyberAligner™ software and the ultra-compact Small Planet Photonics power meter.
PDF  Microrobotic Packaging Automation of Collimated Photonic Devices 
(6 DOF Hexapod Alignment System) (600 kB PDF)
PDF  Microrobotics Speeds Waveguide Production, Improves Quality  
(600 kB PDF)
PDF  CyberAligner™ Modular OEM Alignment Workstation
A cost-effective solution for photonics production and test (500 kB PDF)