A high-speed head positioner in a hard-disk track profiler; a sensitive tip/tilt planarization mechanism for a semiconductor wafer chuck; a dimensionally-stabilized laser cavity; an active ...

To increase the accessibility of piezoelectric transducers and actuators for OEM designers, manufacturers may package these devices inside a protective arrangement of flexures. This approach offers a ...

The Mach-Effect thruster is a propellantless propulsion concept that has been in development by J.F. Woodward for more than two decades. It consists of a piezo stack that produces mass fluctuations, ...

PI Ceramic, a leader in piezoceramic innovation, has significantly shortened its lead times for its highly reliable PICMA ® Stack multilayer piezo actuators. Furthermore, a polymer-free, monolithic ...

Auburn, MA, - April 2006 - PI (Physik Instrumente) L.P., introduces a new affordable nanopositioning controller for high-speed Z-stack image acquisition. High speed Z-stack image acquisition is the ...

Any instrument to survive the trip to and operating conditions on Mars needs to be designed to withstand the most adversary conditions. NASA’s Rover Curiosity has been analyzing mineral probes on the ...

When encountering complex alignment applications, designers of precision motion systems typically have to endure an unsatisfactory compromise between force, dynamics, and accuracy. A new hybrid ...

TREK, INC. has announced a new High Voltage Power Amplifier - Trek Model PZD700A - that offers wide bandwidth and additional features important in piezoelectric driving, electro-optics, MEMS and ...

Piezo fuel injection systems have become firmly established as the state of the art in passenger vehicles, in particular in diesel and increasingly in gasoline powered cars. Since their market debut ...