Company Profile

PI (Physik Instrumente) L.P.

Physik Instrumente is headquartered in Germany, but has offices in China, Italy, Japan, France, USA, Canada, England, Ireland and Singapore. They manufacture micropositioning and nanopositioning solutions for many high-tech markets, including the semiconductor, biotechnology, medical, microscopy, data storage, aerospace, metrology, machining and photonics industries.

Company Info

Website
pi-usa.us
Phone
508-832-3456
Fax
508-832-0506
Address
16 Albert St.
Auburn, MA 01501

Entries

  • in Actuators

    Physik Instruments manufactures linear actuators and motors. These include Flexure Stages & Lever Amplified, Bender and Stack actuators. Heavy Duty Linear Actuators, Piezo Stack actuators include models with steel casing, and small size like model P-810, 6 mm diameter, with ferromagnetic end pieces. Their bender (bimporph) actuators feature travel ranges to 2mm. Flexure guided actuators feature long travel ranges and compressive/tensile limits of 20/10 to 80/10 N.
  • in Amplifiers

    Physik Instrumente (PI) offers a large selection of digital and analog piezo drivers/linear amplifiers. These include single and multi axis, and modular, bench-top and card type, with analog and digital controllers available, for low voltage (~100 V) and high voltage (~1000 V) positioning systems.

  • in Cables

    Physik Instrumente offers LEMO plug/solderable cables, extension cables, coax cables, and sensor cables.
  • in Linear Actuators

    Physik Instruments designs and manufactures piezoelectric linear actuators including piezo actuators, piezo shear actuator, multi-axis actuators, piezo actuators with casing, and closed-loop actuators. The company's preloaded piezo actuators feature travel range of 90 um, pushing force of up to 3000N, and pulling force up to 700N.

  • in Linear Drives

    Physik Instruments produces piezo linear drives that feature travel ranges up to 150 mm, forces up to 10 N, and velocity up to 0.5 m/s. The drives are used for system integration, automation, handling, micromanipulation, biotechnology, and metrology applications.

  • in Linear Positioning Stages

    Physik Instruments designs and manufactures piezo linear motor positioning stages including miniature and low-profile models. The various linear stages feature load capacity of 0.005kg, 0.5 kg, 0.7 kg, 20 kg, and 5 kg; with travel of 2mm, 20mm, 100mm, 25mm, and 50mm.

  • in Micro Drives

  • in Nano/Micro Positioning

    Physik Instruments is a manufacturer of nano and micro positioning solutions.  Products include nanopositioning and scanning piezo stages, fast pieze top/tilt mirrors, piezoelectric actuators, piezo drivers and nanopositioning controllers and piezo motors and motor stages.

  • in Piezo Actuators

    PI (Physik Instrumente) L.P. manufactures and distributes several piezo actuators designed to combine ultra-high performance with long lifetime in industrial and scientific applications. PI's piezo ceramic design and manufacturing division, PI Ceramic, provides the capability and flexibility to offer highly engineered custom sub-assemblies. Models come in a variety of voltage ranges for many applications.

  • in Positioning Sensors

    Physik Instrumente makes capacitive sensors sub-nanometer resolution position sensors with a measuring range up to 1000 microns and a resolution to 0.01nm, bandwidth up to 10kHz, and custom designs.

  • in Rotary Positioning Stages

    Physik Instruments manufactures miniature rotary positioning stages that feature 360 degree travel, 1.5 kg load capacity, and high resolution. The company also produces continuous travel range rotary stages that feature 50-65 kg load capacity; and a fast positioning, ultra-low profile rotary stage.

  • in Stages

    PI Physik Instrumente offers a wide selection of stage products including micro-stage series, translation stages, linear actuators, vertical stages, rotational stages, and tilt/tip stages.

  • in Translation Positioning Stages

    Physik Instruments supplies manual translation stages, low-cost translation stages, hybrid translation stages, and miniature translation stages. Featuring a manual, DC-servo/stepper motor, or DC motor + piezo drive; the various stages have load capacities of 1 to 100 kg and travel range of 6mm to 300mm.

  • in XY Stages & Tables

    Physik Instruments manufactures a line of XY stages including multi-axis stages (modular piezo flexure nanopositioning stages and high speed piezo stages), linear miniature translation stages, and vertical translation stages. The XY linear miniature translation stages feature all-stainless-steel construction, a travel range of 6 mm, and maximum load of 4 kg.