Physik Instrumente GmbH & Co. KG

As a global market leader, Physik Instrumente (PI) has been developing and manufacturing products in the field of micro- and nanopositioning technology for 40 years. A great variety of piezo-driven nanopositioning systems and motor-driven micropositioning solutions is available as standard, custom or OEM products.  PI’s specific technologies and expertise in high-performance, ultra-precision positioning make possible systems offering sub-nanometer accuracy in combination with superior linearity and dynamics. PI products are used in various application areas such as metrology, microscopy, semiconductors and data storage technology, medical equipment, photonics, and astronomy. PI nanopositioning products are based on piezoelectric actuators, which offer sub-nanometer resolution with millisecond response time. With its subsidiary PICeramic, PI develops and produces all piezoelectric actuators itself—unique in the world of nanopositioning systems. To assure highest quality and flexibility, PI maintains in-house sources not only for the piezo drives, but for all key technologies: precision mechanics, digital & analog control electronics and sub-nanometer capacitive position sensors.