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Piezoelectric actuators offer asolution to many positioning tasks that depend on highest accuracy, speed and resolution.Examples given in this tutorialindicate a selection of themany applications commontoday. The relentless push for more accuracy and speed— whether in the further miniatur- ization of microelectronics, production of optics and high- er-performance data storage devices, precise positioning ofoptical fiber components fortelecommunications, or in the fabrication of micromech- anisms—drives both the appli-cation and the further develop- ment of piezo technology. To use the advantages of piezo positioners to their full extent, it is important to carefully ana-lyze the system in which apiezo actuator is used as a whole. Close contact between user and manufacturer is the best recipe for success.Piezoelectric actuators will inthe future partially replace, par-tially complement, convention-al drive technologies. They will widen the realm of the possi- ble, and will usher in develop- ments in areas like nanotech-nology which would be unthinkable with conventional drive technologies.

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