product focus: NANOPOSITIONERS - Nanopositioning equipment answers the call from the world of the very small

摘要

Manufacturers have made strides in stages and flexure design to enable fast, accurate, nanometer-scale motion control in high-resolution microscopy and other short-travel applications. Nanopositioning is the art of motion control on a very small scale at a very fast rate. Moving quickly from one tiny point to the next tiny point with exquisite accuracy is useful in a wide range of applications including super-resolution microscopy, metrology, nanolithography, interferometry, and imaging, among others. We spoke with several manufacturers of nanopositioning equipment to examine the available features and the latest products in the industry.