PI (Physik Instrumente) LP, a manufacturer of nanopositioning and precision motion-control equipment for photonics and nanotechnology applications, is offering the F-131 compact, low-inertia, XYZ nanoalignment engine, which it said allows cost-effective high-precision alignments for customers who do not want to invest in a fully automated packaging solution.

The F-131 combines up to 25x25x25-mm motor-driven, coarse range (50-nm resolution) with ultraprecise piezonanopositioning technology (1-nm resolution) to enable ultralow inertia, fast-scanning speed, small dimension and closed-loop piezoelectric flexure guided stages. The advantage of this coarse/fine approach is that during the final alignment process, only the small mass of the PZT scanner has to be moved, allowing for much higher scanning rates, better precision and shorter alignment times than conventional "high-inertia" solutions, which PI said are limited by the low dynamics of bulky stages.

The F-131 is available with a variety of drivers and CyberAligner LabView alignment software.

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