Piezo technology is particularly suitable for fulfilling specific requirements of active microfluidics in wide-ranging medical technology applications. A new white paper from PI Ceramic describes the special characteristics of piezo actuators and their potential use cases in microfluidics.

To further its leadership in enabling the rapid manufacturing scaling of Photonics, Physik Instrumente (PI) introduces at this year’s Photonics West PILightning^TM, the new first light search method with integrated AI-based real-time executive function. As the newest functionality in PI’s award-winning photonics process automation suite, this fully autonomous and virtually instantaneous process (patent applied for) eliminates the need for time-consuming searches or manual intervention. This significantly drives down costs for test and assembly in all industrial photonics alignment applications, from wafer probing to final packaging. The PILightning^TM algorithm is immediately available for PI’s ultra-clean air bearing stages, Nanocube and fast steering mirror mechanisms and leverages the power of ACS controls.