Queensgate: High speed, high precision applications

Product catalog summary

Introduction
Queensgate, a leader in nanopositioning, has been providing high precision products for over 40 years. Originating from research at Imperial College London, the company is now part of Prior Scientific. Their expertise lies in high-speed, high-precision applications, supported by advanced digital control technology.

Key Features

Enhanced Control Technology: Digital control allows for system optimization in speed, resolution, and payload, with ultra-low noise electronics and high power supply capabilities.
Performance: Queensgate stages are 4 to 5 times faster than competitors, maintaining precision and resolution at high bandwidths.
Custom Solutions: Over 70% of products are custom-made, focusing on precision, accuracy, and dynamic performance, with ISO 9001 certification ensuring quality.

Applications

Microscopy: High-performance piezoelectric stages are used in AFM for sub-nanometre spatial resolution and fast scanning times, essential for reducing measurement times and temperature drift.
Imaging: Long-range piezo sample and objective positioners provide high resolution and fast settle times, beneficial for techniques like live-cell imaging.
Hard Disk Drive Testing: Custom stages and controllers meet high precision needs, with position error budgets less than 0.5 nm.
Semiconductor: Custom UHV wafer scanners with low thermal expansion and high-speed interfaces are available.

Product Range
Queensgate offers a variety of nanopositioning products, including objective positioners and sample scanners, with specifications such as range, resolution, linearity, and repeatability detailed in tables.

Conclusion
Queensgate's nanopositioning systems are designed for demanding environments, offering high accuracy and repeatability. Their products are used in various industries, including microscopy, semiconductor, and HDD testing, providing market-leading performance and custom solutions.

Catalog excerpts

High speed, high precision applications

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Experience Over 40 years of delivering performance-critical components Performance The experts in high speed, high precision applications Queensgate has been a premier supplier of high Digital control provides the flexibility of tuning precision nanopositioning products for over 40 to optimize a system for speed, resolution, and years. The company was founded in 1979 from the payload. Queensgate controllers have ultra-low noise Enhanced control technology A tool kit to deliver the best performance for the application groundbreaking research at Imperial College in London electronics (at low picometres...

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Get the fastest step and settle time and the best positioning performance Queensgate long-range piezo sample and objective positioners provide the best resolution, repeatability, and settle times. Queensgate controller techniques enable performance that is usually only achieved with shorter range stages, cutting scanning times significantly. Long ranges and fast scanning times are beneficial for multiphoton microscopy techiques such as live-cell imaging (see image below). NanoScan OP400 Nanopositioning NanoScan SP400/SP600 Piezo Objective Positioner Nanopositioning Piezo Sample Scanner Atomic-force...

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Industrial solutions Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) Designed for demanding environments Electron microscopes have a higher resolving power than light microscopes and can reveal the structure of smaller objects to picometre levels of resolution. Queensgate provides very low noise piezo systems which are non-magnetic and UHV compatible. Product range Part number Material Range (closed loop) Resolution (typical) Linearity (typical) Repeatability (typical) Aluminium Non magnetic nickel (1) High load custom version for use up to 14 kg , tip tilt Z custom version for platform levelling and scanning,...

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JAPAN Kayabacho 3rd Nagaoka Bldg 10F, 2-7-10, Nihonbashi Kayabacho, Chuo-Ku, Tokyo103-0025, Japan Email: [email protected] Phone: 03-5652-8831 UNITED KINGDOM Prior Scientific Instruments Ltd. Units 3-4 Fielding Industrial Estate Wilbraham Road, Fulbourn Cambridge, CB21 5ET United Kingdom Email: [email protected] Phone: +44 (0)1223 881711 U.S.A. Prior Scientific, Inc. 80 Reservoir Park Drive Rockland, MA. 02370 U.S.A. Email: [email protected] Phone: 781.878.8442 GERMANY Prior Scientific Instruments GmbH Maria-Pawlowna-Str. 4 D-07743, Jena, Germany Email: [email protected] Phone: +49 (0) 3641 24...

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