New PI brochure on air bearing technology

Air-bearings have no rolling or sliding elements and deliver completely frictionless, non-contact motion, resulting in negligible hysteresis or reversal error, better straightness, flatness and velocity stability, which are useful prerequisites for high-end industrial inspection and manufacturing operations. Air bearing stages are well suited for many high-precision applications, such as metrology, photonics alignment, semiconductor, flat panel display, precision scanning applications, and cleanroom applications.

Nanometer precision and multi-axis motion stages designed with high straightness / flatness are the hallmarks of PI's standard and custom-designed air bearing products. The PI group develops and manufactures all air bearing products at their Hopkinton, MA and Milford, NH facilities.

PI has in-house engineered products from over four decades of experience working with customers to provide a standard product or to modify existing product designs to fit the exact requirements of the application with a custom product. Applications include metrology, photonics alignment, semiconductor, flat panel display, precision scanning applications, cleanroom applications.

To learn more about air bearing technology, you can watch a video animation, or download the PIglide Air Bearing Technology Catalogue.