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- Others - PI Group

PI (Physik Instrumente) Acquires Majority Shares in ACS Motion Control: Positioning Systems for High-Performance Industrial Applications

PI (Physik Instrumente), a company with headquarters in Karlsruhe, Germany, has stood for technical excellence and continuous progress in precision positioning for a number of decades. The target of the PI Group is to develop this market and technological leadership even further and therefore secure a decisive competitive advantage for its customers. The acquisition of 80 % of the Israeli ACS Motion Control, a developer and manufacturer of high-end motion controllers and drives for multi-axis motion systems worldwide, was an important step forward.                        
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- Products - PI Group

Piezo Systems for Microscopy, the Semiconductor Industry, and Photonics Ready for Use Even Faster

PI (Physik Instrumente) offers shorter lead times for selected piezo-based positioning systems and nanopositioning controllers. This enables even faster prototype set-up and faster integration of products into the application environment for customers of PI.          
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- Others - PI Group

PI (Physik Instrumente) Appoints Scott Jordan as Head of the Photonics Market Segment

With immediate effect, Scott Jordan is head of the newly defined photonics market segment in the globally active PI Group. He is well known in the community for his passion and engagement and has earned himself a very good reputation and his expertise makes him ideally suited for this position.      
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- Company - PI Group

Physik Instrumente (PI) appoints Stéphane Bussa as Vice President of Sales & Marketing

Stéphane Bussa takes over the responsibility for Sales and Marketing at PI (Physik Instrumente) with immediate effect and sets a clear target for the leading supplier of motion control and positioning solutions: He sees technology-independent and solution-oriented customer consulting as the key to satisfying the globally increasing demands for precision motion and positioning and that also includes the industrial markets.        
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- Products - PI Group

Planar Scanner with Air Bearing for High Precision and Velocity

The A-322 XY positioning system from PI (Physik Instrumente) with friction-free air bearing achieves a resolution of up to 1 nm and velocities if 1000 mm/s.        
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- Products - PI Group

The Smallest Parallel-Kinematic Piezo System for Travel Ranges to 100 µm: P-616 NanoCube® for Precision Positioning on Three Spatial Axes

The new P-616 NanoCube® from PI (Physik Instrumente) is extremely compact and offers identical dynamics, precision and velocity on all three motion axes with loads of up to 50 grams. This makes it suitable for example, for use in fiber alignment, microscopy or in precision manufacturing.  
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European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT)
- Applications - PI Group

The Next Generation of Adaptive Optics: PI and the Fraunhofer IOF Support Visualization of Exoplanets in the E-ELT

In cooperation with the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering (IOF), PI (Physik Instrumente) is devel-oping a new actuator concept for the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), which is currently being planned by the Euro-pean Southern Observatory (ESO). It is intended to use 11,000 PICMA® multilayer piezo actuators in extremely accurate adap-tive optics (XAO) to make it possible to get a clear and sharp view into space with pitch of less than 4 mm.                         
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Piezoceramic Disc with Flexible Circuit Board
- Products - PI Group

Easy Integration of Piezo Components with Flexible Printed Circuits

The perfect integration of piezo components into the application is always an important part of the overall product. To make integration as easy as possible for the customer, PI Ceramic now also offers piezo elements with flexible printed circuits if required.            
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N-565 Linear stage
- Products - PI Group

High Precision on Travel Ranges to 52 mm: N-565 Linear Stage Series with Piezomotor

PI uses piezoelectric stepping drives in the N-565 linear stage series. The drive principle enables repeatability in the range of a few nanometers, high guiding accuracy, and high force in a single compact unit.                                
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PI C-885
- Products - PI Group

Bringing together what belongs together: Mixed Operation of up to 40 Axes with One Controller

During operation, it is often necessary for several drive axes to work together. On top of that, further motion controllers are necessary, which have to be started up individually and must be connected to the higher-level control. The time and financial resources required for this should not be underestimated.    
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- Products - PI Group

Spherical Piezo Elements Enable Use in 360° Ultrasonic Applications

PI Ceramic now manufactures piezo components as hemispheres and hollow spheres. These types of components are particularly suitable for use as 360° transmitters such as those used in sonar technology.        
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