- Flexure-guided Piezo Stage provides highest precision
- Fast Response (1 kHz Resonant Frequency)
- Stainless Steel Construction
- Frictionless Precision Flexure Guiding System
- 80 µm Travel Range
- Direct Metrology with LVDT Sensor
- Resolution <5 nm
- PICMA® High-Performance Piezo Drives
P-780 flexure-guided piezo stages are extremely compact and fast devices, providing a positioning and scanning range of up to 80 µm with settling times of only a few milliseconds. The P-780 is designed for applications with loads up to 100 g. Closed-loop and open-loop versions are offered to fit your application.
Direct-metrology LVDT sensorP-780.20 models feature direct-measuring, non-contact LVDT sensors (direct metrology).
- Compact Piezo Stage Design, only 44 x 44 x 44 mm
- 100 x 100 x 100 µm Travel Range
- 1 nm Resolution
- Ideal for Fiber-Alignment and Photonics Packaging Applications
- Optional E-760 Controller Card Features Built-In Optical Metrology
- Closed- and Open-Loop Versions
- Flexure-Guided Precision Trajectory Control
- Fast Scanning and Settling
- Large Variety of Controllers
The P-611 NanoCube® is a versatile, multi-axis piezo stage nanopositioning system. Its 100 x 100 x 100 µm positioning and scanning range comes in an extremely compact package of only 44 x 44 x 44 mm. Equipped with a zero-stiction, zero-friction guiding system, this NanoCube® provides motion with ultra-high resolution and settling times of only a few milliseconds. Open- and closed-loop versions are offered to fit your application.
Elliot GoldTM Series XYZ flexure stage fitted with piezo actuators providing 25 µm of piezo and 2mm of manual adjustment in each of the three axes. This system can be controlled either via a simple piezo controller or an Elliot Scientific Device Automated Alignment System (DALi2).
In cell research, particularly in neurophysiology, complex measurement set-ups with fragile glass electrodes, such as those used in the patch clamp method, are gaining a key role for microscopic examination of all kinds of preparations. For example, brain section preparations are observed under an upright-positioned microscope as electrical signals are conveyed. In the experiment, fine glass electrodes are positioned to simulate efferent neurons. While signals are transmitted using these electrodes, the preparation under the microscope may not be moved with respect to the measurement test equipment set-up or the microscope. This means that moving the slide, for example, to position an additional electrode beyond the viewing field, would disconnect the preparation from the electrodes transmitting the signals. In this case, it is necessary to move the entire microscope with respect to the preparation. The microscope must be moved with the same or, ideally, with relatively high accuracy as expected of a conventional microscope X-Y stage used in such applications. The dimensions and load of a microscope that can weigh up to 40 kg pose a special challenge, however.
Available in two versions, the LINOS XY 500 LS X-Y stage overcomes this challenge. The X and Y axes can be moved from the front, from the side or both can be moved from the front. This stage provides a large central hole for using the microscope base port, for example, for a camera in applications that employ an inverse microscope. An attractive option is the customer-specific hole pattern for fastening the particular microscope used – this pattern is available at no extra cost.
