Aug 19th 2025

Large area high-speed atomic force microscopy with arbitrary scan path playback: paper available now

Queensgate and the UK’s National Physical Laboratory (NPL) have developed a novel control system to enable large-area, high-speed atomic force microscopy (AFM) scans. The breakthrough was enabled following their collaboration […]

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Jun 19th 2025

New multi-axis nanopositioning stage from Queensgate offers market-leading dynamic performance

Queensgate Instruments has expanded its range of high-performance nanopositioning stages with a 3-axis high-dynamic positioning stage. The QGNPS-XYZ-100D-20H features Queensgate’s proven NanoMechanism, which provides 100 µm travel in the X […]

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NPS-Z-500 Compact Sample Positioner/Scanner

Jun 11th 2025

Queensgate’s ultra-compact long-range piezo stage offers best-in-class high-performance positioning

The NPS-Z-500C piezo stage from Queensgate provides unrivalled position precision and accuracy for a wide range of microscopy and materials inspection applications. Its small footprint allows easy integration into instrumentation […]

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NPS-Z-250B

Jun 4th 2025

‘Highest precision positioning’: Queensgate launches new heavy-duty piezo stage

Queensgate Instruments has extended its range of high-performance nanopositioning piezo stages with a lever-amplified, heavy-duty stage capable of moving loads of up to 6 kg. The stage has a range […]

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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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