The Solar Orbiter space probe begun its journey in February 2020. Also on board: A tip/tilt unit from PI for the secondary mirror of one of the central experiments, the Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager (PHI).
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How an Industrial Safety Concept Can Be Combined with a Hexapod
Finger, hand, or body protection in automated production processes
The integration of a barrier-free safety concept into the control circuit of the hexapod, e.g. of a PILZ safety light curtain, ensures finger, hand, and body protection depending on the required safety level.
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Israeli Start-Up Healium Medical Receives the Prestigious ICI 2019 Innovation Award for Atrial Fibrillation Treatment
Piezo Ultrasound Elements from PI Are Used for the Award-Winning Treatment Method
Healium Medical was named 1st Prize-Winner of the ICI 2019 Innovation Award Competition (Innovation in Cardiovascular Interventions). Ran Sela, CEO and founder of Healium Medical proudly received $ 100,000 in prize money for its new treatment method of atrial fibrillation.
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PIMag®: Voice Coil, Linear, and Torque Motors Developed In-House
An Interview Gives Insight Why PI also Uses Its Own Motors to Offer Optimized Customer Solutions
For positioning and scanning systems equipped with magnetic direct drives, PI relies mainly on strong suppliers from the motor industry. With the Driven by PIMag® brand name PI is increasingly strengthening its expertise in motor design, construction, and manufacturing. Dietrich Wins, Product Marketing Manager for Motorized Positioners at PI, explains the motivation behind.
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System Overview: Positioning Stages for Inverse Microscopy
Guide for the Perfect Combination of Positioning Stages, Z Stages, and Sample Holders
Positioning samples under the microscope is a complex task for which PI offers numerous products. In order to fulfill the demands placed on the positioning accuracy, travel ranges and velocities, stages that offer long travel ranges are often combined with fine positioning stages. Which systems fit together how, is shown in the system overview for inverse microscopes.
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Stable and Precise Positioning of Mechanical and Optomechanical Components
Piezo-Based Linear Actuators Provide Reliable and Automated Alignment of the Beam Path of Optical Assemblies
How can the beam path of optical assemblies be adjusted with high resolution and stability? Piezo-based linear actuators provide reliable and automated alignment of mechanical and optomechanical components in experiments They offer a lifetime of more than a billion steps, a step size of 20 nm and a holding force of > 100 N.
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How Can the Advantages of Hexapods Be Easily Used in Automation?
Learn in the White Paper "Controlling Hexapods via Ethercat<sup>®</sup>" How Integration into the Process Environment Works
Parallel-kinematic hexapod robots can move and position tools, workpieces, and complex components with weights ranging from a few grams to several hundred kilograms or even several tons in any spatial orientation with high precision. The PI hexapod controller with integrated EtherCAT interface now makes it very easy for users to integrate hexapods into automation systems without it being necessary to perform challenging kinematic transformations.
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Flamingo Light Sheet Microscopes Rely on Drives from PI
Precise Sample Positioning is Crucial for Conclusive Images
Lightsheet microscopy (LSFM) is a powerful platform for in vivo imaging offering low phototoxicity and fast image acquisition. The Flamingo project from Professor Dr. Jan Huisken, Research Group Leader and Director of the Medical Engineering Department at Morgridge Institute for Research in Madison, WI, aims to make this technology easily available to researchers.
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PIOne Sensors – High Performance for Nanopositioning Systems
An In-house Development for Precision over Large Travel Ranges
For conventional nanopositioning with piezo actuators and large travel ranges from 1 mm, incremental position sensors such as PIOne are used instead of capacitive sensors. Dr. Axel Grabowski, Head of Sensor Development at PI and developer of PIOne, explains the advantages of the the incremental position sensor with maximum resolution and moderate energy consumption.
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Enabling Large-Format Industrial Productivity
Award-Winning PI Fast Alignment Technology Comes to ACS Controls
PI’s fast optimization technology has proven to dramatically improve production economics in processes as diverse as photonics wafer probing, device packaging, and chip testing and even laser and optical equipment manufacturing. Now the flexible combination of PI´s industrial stages and new alignment-enabled controls from ACS address additional tough throughput and yield challenges for photonics production.
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