Typical applications for Queensgate products
Semiconductor Industry
Our sensors, translators and stages are used extensively in semiconductor test equipment including
- UV, EUV, E-beam and X – Ray
- Mask and Wafer Inspection systems (including critical dimension CD)
- Mask and Wafer manufacturing systems
- Wafer Chuck nanometre alignment, measurement and control
- Auto focussing
Disk Drive Industry
NanoMechanisms are used for testing and grading disk drive read write heads and for characterising magnetic media and recording methods.
- MR Head Testing
- Tribiology studies
- Advanced read write head research
Scanning Probe Microscope (SPM)
Linear XYZ stages with subnanometer resolution are used to probe molecular and atomic features.
- Objective Scanning
- SPM, AFM and NSOM stage control
Space Qualified NanoMechanisms
Our sensors and translators are combined with sophisticated mechanical, electronic and optical design to produce high performance mechanisms and interferometers for pointing, positioning and control applications
Others Applications include
- Precision beam steering
- Vibration Control
- Material Testing
- Synchrotrons
- Molecular Biology
- Interferometry