Precision Microscope Stages, Manual, Motorized, Piezo

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Motorized Microscope Stages, Manual Stages
Ultrasonic-Piezomotor equipped Microscope stages are self-locking at rest and provide better long-term stability than conventional lead-screw driven stages (drift caused by viscous flow in the lubricants). They are also significantly more compact and elegant due to the lack of screws and bulky motors.

Ultrasonic motors provide a very large dynamics range from microns/second to 100+ mm/second with extremely smooth motion. The stiff piezo drives allow for significantly faster step & settle than conventional stepper motor or linear motor stages.
PI also offers manual stages. Both versions are compatible with the fast piezo nanopositioning stages.

Video: Direct-Drive XY Motorized Microscope Stage. High Stability, with Piezo Ceramic Motors




Travel [mm] Sensor
XY Piezo Motorized Microscope Stage U-780 XY-Stage for Inverted Microscopes Inverted XY Microscope Stage for, Nikon Eclipse Ti / Ti2, Olympus IX / IX2 / IX3, Leica DMI6000/DMI8. Compact & high stability with ceramic motors, self-clamping. Significantly higher stability than electromagnetic motor stages. High speed, very smooth low speed capability, with joystick & controller
to 135x85mm 0.1 µm Linear Encoder
XY-Motorized Microscope Stage U-760 XY-Motorized Microscope Stage The U-760 is the smaller brother of the U-780 series XY stages. Also driven with ceramic motors for ultra high stability. Very high dynamic velocity range from microns/second to 100mm/second, very smooth low speed capability, with joystick & controller
25x25mm 0.01 µm Linear Encoder
M-686 M-686K Family of Ultra-Stable, Long-Travel XY motorized microscope stages. Self-locking piezo linear motor ensures significantly higher stability than conventional stages. Low profile, compact design. Fast: Velocity to 150mm/sec. With controller, software and joystick.
to 225x85 mm Linear Encoder
M-686 U-751 XY Motorized microscope stage, 25x25mm extremely high stability due to autolocking ceramic motors,
large aperture, linear encoder
combines with PI nanopositioning / scanning stages
Paper on Stability
25 x 25 mm Linear Encoder
M-545 with P-726 on Top M-545 XY microscope stage with 25 x 25 mm travel shown with PInano™ piezo nanopositioner (200 µm motion in X, Y und Z) on top. Stiff, high-stability design, ideal basis for fast piezo scanning stages. Manual and motorized versions. 25x25 mm -
M-545 M-545 XY microscope stage with 25 x 25 mm travel. Stiff, high-stability design, ideal basis for fast piezo scanning stages. Manual and motorized versions. 25x25 mm -
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    for Single Molecule
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    for Atomic Force
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