Archive

2020

Advances in Piezo Actuators for High Frequency, High Duty Cycle Industrial Applications

Methods to provide higher bandwidth and duty cycles with fast piezo positioning systems

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Methods to Improve Piezo Dynamics, Accuracy and Linearity: Preshaping / DDL / APC

· PI (Physik Instrumente) LP

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Adaptive Optics – the Next Generation. 11,000 Actuators to Aid Search for Exoplanets with the E-ELT

PI and Fraunhofer IOF Cooperate on New Large Scale Adaptive Optics Project

· PI (Physik Instrumente) LP

Adaptive Optics with High Resolution Piezo Actuators for the Extremely Large Telescope

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High-Speed Deformable Mirror for Laser Beam Focus Control in Cutting & Welding Applications

Piezo driven laser focus shifter module advances speed and quality in laser machining applications

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Point-Cloud Surface Reconstruction: What 3D Laser Manufacturing and Lidar Measurements have in Common

How PI supports Additive Manufacturing and Laser Materials Processing Applications

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Custom Motors for Precision Motion Control

When do they make sense? Q&A with PI's Dietrich Wins

· PI (Physik Instrumente) LP

PImag Voice Coil, Linear and Rotary Torque Motors for Special Requirements

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The importance of Automation Actuators and Motion Control in 3D printing

The Importance of Automation Actuators and Precision Motion Control in Additive Manufacturing

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How PI Is Helping to Unlock the Sun's Secrets

· Arne Bramigk· Markus Wiederspahn

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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Smart Vaccine Patch Production with Piezo Elements

· Dr. Annemarie Oesterle

In the wake of the global COVID-19 pandemic, modern vaccination technologies are gaining importance as they promise to protect the world population from future pandemics. Vaccine patches are one of these next generation applications and piezo components or actuators can be used to precisely dispense tiniest droplets on the microneedles.

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Force & Position Control in Precision Automation

· PI (Physik Instrumente) LP

Controlling Force & Position with High Accuracy to Improve Testing of Haptic Devices

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