A World Beyond

Microscopy, like no other technology, is constantly expanding our knowledge about what holds the world together at its core, about what the building blocks of life look like. In life sciences, materials research, geology, archeology, mineralogy... again and again, microscopes in the hands of brilliant researches provide the newest findings and so make innovations possible.

PI, as an "enabling partner", supports users and researches worldwide with ever more precise, faster, and reliable motion and positioning systems for samples and objectives. The spectrum ranges from standard microscopes through the most modern superresolution microscopes to atomic force, X-ray, and particle beam microscopes. In fact, many of these technologies were only realized thanks to powerful nanopositioning systems from PI.

It is our goal to push microscopy as a knowledge and innovation engine.

Open Source Microscopy
Open Source Microscopy
Microscopy is one of the technologies that is constantly reinventing itself. The first microscopes from the early 17th century were very simple in design, but countless developments have steadily increased their performance.
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Configure your Microscope Stage
Configure your Microscope Stage
The precise and fast movement of the sample or the objective play a crucial role for achieving good results when working with light microscopes. The demands on stages and scanners are manifold.
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Confocal Microscopy: Adjusting Focal Planes
PIFOC in Microscope
Confocal microscopy is used to detect the structure of the sample surface through the shifting of the focal plane, for example in dermatology.
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Positioning Solutions for TIRF Microscopy
Fluorescence Microscopy
Linear stages adjust the laser beam in the TIRF microscope. Precision positioning of the sample is possible by combining two XY stages.
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Testing at Industrial Speed
Testing at Industrial-Scale Speed
For the first time ever, scientists from the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology IPT in Aachen have succeeded in achieving 100 percent microscopic testing in the industrial environment.
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Atomic Force Microscopy
Atomic Force Microscopy
Atomic force microscopy supplies researchers and developers extremely high resolution topographical data from a large number of different minerals, polymers, mixtures, composite materials or biological tissue.
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IsoView Light Sheet Microscope
IsoView Light Sheet Microscope
Light Sheet Microscopy is a fascinating technology with a huge application potential in life sciences and biotechnology. IsoView is a brilliant interpretation of this technology, especially intended for imaging fast cellular dynamics across large specimens over several hours.
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Electron Microscopy
Electron Microscopy
Applications for electron microscopy cover a broad spectrum from semiconductor inspection through materials research to molecular biology research.
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Flamingo Lightsheet Fluorescence Microscopy
Flamingo Lightsheet
Light Sheet Fluorescence Microscopy (LSFM), also called Single Plane Illumination Microscopy (SPIM ) is a very powerful microscopy technology for gentle in vivo imaging offering low phototoxicity and fast image acquisition.
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High Velocity for Image Stabilization
High Velocity for Image Stabilization and Microscanning
Fast, piezo-based scanners operate with the necessary velocities in the video frequency range for image stabilization and microscanning.
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