PI Releases New Brochure on Air Bearing Technology at Laser 2015 Conference

Nanopositioning specialist PI (Physik Instrumente), a leader and solution provider in motion control and positioning components and systems, releases its latest product line catalog on Air Bearing stages. The new brochure on US-designed and manufactured precision positioning equipment was introduced at this year’s “LASER World of PHOTONICS” – one of the world’s leading international trade shows and conferences for the laser and photonics industry – in Munich, Germany.

Why Air Bearings

Air-bearings have no rolling or sliding elements and deliver completely frictionless, non-contact motion, resulting in negligible hysteresis or reversal error, better straightness, flatness and velocity stability, which are ideal prerequisites for high-end industrial inspection and manufacturing operations. Air bearing stages are ideally suited for many high precision applications, such as metrology, photonics alignment, semiconductor, flat panel display, precision scanning applications, and cleanroom applications.

Nanometer precision and multi-axis motion stages designed with the highest straightness / flatness are the hallmarks of PI’s standard and custom designed air bearing solutions. The PI group develops and manufactures all air bearing products at their Hopkinton, MA and Milford, NH facilities.

Standard and Custom

PI has in-house engineered solutions from over 4 decades of experience working with customers to provide a standard product or to modify existing product designs to fit the exact requirements of the application with a custom solution.

Applications of PIglide Air Bearing Technology

Applications include metrology, photonics alignment, semiconductor, flat panel display, precision scanning applications, cleanroom applications.