Auburn, MA, July 2009 – PI’s patented P-653 piezo motor linear slide is significantly smaller than other miniature linear stages and provides significantly higher velocities and resolution. A developer’s kit can now be ordered from PI-USA’s Piezo Basics Online Store at  http://store.pi-usa.us/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=P-653.01D Read the rest of this article »

Super-Resolution Microscopy benefits from new PI nano ™ Nanopositioning Scanning Stage

Auburn, MA, PI (Physik Instrumente) L.P. ( the inventor of Piezo-Z nanofocusing drives ) has extended its line of piezo stages for super-resolution microscopy.

The new PI nano™ series nanopositioning stages feature a very low profile of 20 mm (0.8”), a large aperture and deliver highly accurate motion with sub-nanometer resolution in 2 and 3 axes. A piezo controller is included and comes with a 24-bit USB port, Ethernet, RS-232 and an analog interface, as well as solid software support for all major image acquisition packages. The piezo stage is supplemented by the optional M-545 manual XY microscope stage available in different versions for Olympus, Nikon, Zeiss and Leica microscopes.

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Nanotechnology - also called Nanotech - as per popular literature is a field whose theme is the control of matter on an atomic and molecular scale. Generally nanotechnology deals with structures of the size 100 nanometers or smaller, and involves developing materials or devices within that size.
Extremely diverse from novel extensions of conventional device physics, to completely new approaches based upon molecular self-assembly, to developing new materials with dimensions on the nanoscale, even to speculation on whether we can directly control matter on the atomic scale, Nanotechnology is creating wonders and analysts say that future lies in Nanotechnology. Read the rest of this article »