NanoScan OP400

Mar 28th 2025

New Queensgate Objective Positioner: affordable market-leading accuracy and superior step-settle time

Queensgate has launched its latest addition to the OP family of piezo objective positioners. The OP200 offers superior step-settle times over the OP400, whilst retaining market-leading positioning accuracy and resolution […]

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OP400

Mar 28th 2025

Popular Piezo Objective Positioners – available with short lead time

Queensgate’s OP series of piezo objective positioners are available to order with lead times as good as 4 weeks – slashing the market average lead time by more than half. […]

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Meetoptics logo

Mar 13th 2025

Collaboration with MEETOPTICS platform

Queensgate is pleased to announce a collaboration with MEETOPTICS, the world’s largest optics and photonics search platform which offers over 95,000 components in its database and has a community of […]

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NPS-XYP-250Q 300 mm wafer-mask alignment stage

Dec 11th 2024

Queengate focuses on move to 300 mm with ‘physically largest’ piezo nanopositioning stage

Queensgate has delivered the ‘physically largest’ piezo nanopositioning stage designed for wafer mask alignment. The NPS-XYP-250Q 300 mm wafer–mask alignment stage provides ultra-stable and high-precision positioning of wafer masks in […]

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NanoScan SP400/SP600

Dec 5th 2024

High-accuracy sample positioner offers fast travel over 200 µm

Queensgate Instruments has introduced a new, short-range nanopositioning Z-axis sample positioner in response to customer requests. The new SP200, part of the NanoScan SP Z Series, offers fast, reliable Z-axis […]

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Image of areas scanned using HS-AFM

Nov 20th 2024

Large-area scanning for high-speed AFM: latest developments announced

Queensgate and NPL revealed their latest breakthrough at Euspen’s Special Interest Conference: Precision Motion Systems and Control in November. The development is a novel control system for a two-axis flexure […]

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Feb 27th 2024

Semiconductor metrology: positioning is key

Specialist positioning subsystems provide core building blocks in 3D surface measurement and inspection solutions for the semiconductor industry. Prior Scientific and Queensgate offer a diversified portfolio of enabling technologies to […]

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Jan 29th 2024

Queensgate awarded funding for fourth research project with NPL

Queensgate, a brand of Prior Scientific, has won funding from Innovate UK, the UK’s innovation agency, for a fourth nanopositioning research project as part of Analysis for Innovators (A4I) program […]

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NanoScan SP400/SP600

Nov 14th 2023

High accuracy sample positioner now offers up to 800 µm travel

Queensgate’s NanoScan SP800 nanopositioning sample scanner offers high-accuracy positioning performance for longer ranges. Queensgate has added a new model to its range of piezo-driven sample positioners. The SP800 offers 800 […]

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An imaging system being built overlaid with the BSI marks

Nov 7th 2023

New ISO certifications demonstrate Prior Scientific’s commitment to improved environmental practices

Prior Scientific is now certified to ISO Environment (14001:2015) and Health & Safety (45001:2018). The company already has Quality Management (9001:2015) which has been successfully renewed. The new certificates apply […]

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