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Electro Scientific Industries Adds Expertise to Its' Scientific Advisory Board

News - 27 Aug 2007

Electro Scientific Industries, Inc., a leading provider of world-class photonic micro-engineering solutions, today announced that Dr. Ming Wu has joined the Company’s Scientific Advisory Board...

Polytec

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For over 40 years Polytec has provided high-technology, laser-based measurement solutions to researchers and engineers. Our commitment is to provide the most precise and reliable optical instruments...

James Webb Space Telescope Mirrors Have a Complicated Anatomy

News - 24 Mar 2014

When you think of a mirror, there really isn't that much needed to describe it, but when you look at a mirror that will fly aboard NASA's next-generation James Webb Space Telescope,...

Piezoelectric Nanopositioning and Scanning Systems with Frictionless Drives Offer Superior Performance

Article - 6 Aug 2008

PI Nanopositioning and scanning systems with frictionless flexure guidance are decidedly superior to positioners with conventional guiding systems.

Ultra Precision Piezoelectric and Motorized Actuators for Nanopositioning and Micropositioning Applications

Article - 5 Aug 2008

PI is the leading manufacturer of ultra precision actuators for nanopositioning and micropositioning applications in industries such as: Semiconductors; Biotechnology and Medicine; Lasers, Optics,...

Cambridge Technology, Inc.

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While Cambridge Technology has always been the scanning innovator and leader, the key to our market success and growth and the resultant success of our customers has been our operating principles...

Noliac Providing Solutions to UK Astronomy Technology Centre's Proof of Concept Deformable Mirror

News - 15 Sep 2010

A giant telescope design is being developed by the European Southern Observatory and will in future revolutionise our understanding of the universe and its origins. Noliac bending actuator rings have...

PI Offers PiezoMike Linear Actuators Equipped with Position Sensors

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This video offers a glimpse into the features of PiezoMike series of linear actuators by Physik Instrumente (PI). Based on low-cost inertia principle, the PiezoMike linear actuators are distinguished...

PiezoMove® Flexure Actuators from PI

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This video shows the operating principle of the Piezomove® flexure actuators from PI. In nanopositioning technology, flexure guides have shown to be appropriate for positioning tasks of up to several...

Multilayer Piezo Actuators from PI Ceramic

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This video shows the operating principle of PI Ceramic’s Disk Actuator. The multilayer contracting plates can be manufactured in various shapes, for example, disk-shaped (circular) or rectangular, and...