Positioning equipment

Motionlink now supplies Micronix USA's range of long-travel linear and accurate rotary piezo stages. The PPS linear piezo stage range offers long travel up to 100mm

Physik Instrumente (PI) Ceramic has introduced encapsulated PICMA multilayer actuators with improved heat dissipation properties

Laser 2000 has introduced the Hybrid Hexapod from ALIO Industries. With the combination of serial and parallel kinematic axes, it is possible to achieve high precision and dynamic, as well as a flexible combination of travel ranges and dimensions

PI (Physik Instrumente) has introduced the H-820 Hexapod. The parallel-kinematic positioning system has been proven to reliably attain a linear repeatability of 20 micrometres

Owis has introduced linear precision stages with a width of 30mm and a working height of 16mm

PI (Physik Instrumente) miCos has launched the LPS-22, a series of linear and rotary positioning systems

Physik Instrumente (PI) has introduced the N-470 linear actuator, which simplifies the automated adjustment of mechanical and optomechanical components

Symetrie has launched NanoPos, a nanometre resolution positioning hexapod developed for applications such as positioning in optics or nanotechnologies

Piezosystem jena has launched stack type actuators series PA, for use in applications such as scanning microscopy, laser fine tuning, micro manipulation or mirror positioning.

ScannerMax has released the Compact-506 model optical scanner, which is built upon ScannerMax's VRAD actuator platform