Join us on Tuesday 23 February 2021 at 16:00 CET for a virtual tour of epic Paignton – home of our manufacturing. EPIC – European Photonics Industry Consortium is organizing […]
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Feb 16th 2021
Nov 18th 2020
Queensgate: Leading Performance Nanopositioning for Microscopy
Queensgate, a brand of Prior Scientific, has a prolific 40-year history in the design of nanopositioning instruments and sensors, having supplied technology used in the manufacture of the majority of […]
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Nov 2nd 2020
Nanopositioning Systems and Capacitive Sensors with Extreme Reliability for Beamline Applications
Queensgate offers nanopositioning solutions with high precision, accuracy, resolution, and speed that operate for decades in beamline applications. Since its inception in 1978, Queensgate – a brand of Prior […]
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Mar 18th 2020
COVID-19/Coronavirus Update
7 April 2020 Update To: All Employees, Customers, Suppliers, Visitors and Contractors General In light of the global spread of the COVID-19, Prior Scientific/Queensgate is providing this updated notice to […]
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Feb 24th 2020
Queensgate reaches the pinnacle of nanopositioning performance
Seagate’s Ron Anderson says that the data-storage company is using ‘the best nanopositioner on the market’ (Image courtesy: AdobeStock/Vadim) Queensgate – a brand of precision optical and mechanical instrumentation manufacturer […]
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Feb 21st 2020
Introducing the NanoScan OP400 objective positioner – for high speed, high accuracy, repeatable Z stacking
Prior Scientific/Queensgate is proud to announce the release of the NanoScan OP400, a piezo based objective scanner. Prior Scientific acquired Queensgate in 2018 and the NanoScan OP400 combines Prior’s expertise in delivering microscopy solutions with Queensgate’s market leading nanopositioning technology. The NanoScan OP400 provides the fastest step […]
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Feb 21st 2020
Queensgate: collaborating to push the boundaries of measurement science
The National Physical Laboratory and Queensgate share an unrelenting passion for better precision at the cutting edge of measurement science Queensgate XY stage in AFM at National Physical Laboratories Queensgate […]
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Jan 31st 2019
Prior Scientific Introduces the NanoScan NPC-D-6000 Series Multi Channel Controllers
Prior Scientific are pleased to announce the release of our Queensgate NanoScan NPC-D-6000 Series Multi-Channel Closed Loop Controllers. Both the single and multi-channel digital nanopositioning controllers are designed to operate […]
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May 25th 2018
Queensgate Instruments has been acquired by Prior Scientific Instruments Ltd
Prior Scientific Instruments are global leaders in delivering high precision motorized stages, microscope automation products and specialty opto-mechanical automation systems. Queensgate Instruments designs and produces leading performance nano positioning and measurement […]
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Mar 14th 2017
Smaller Worlds – John Andrew Clarke of Queensgate Instruments looks at the shrinking world of nanopositioning
In most fields of engineering, working to micrometre accuracy is considered to be the standard, with typical high-quality bearings having tolerances within hundreds or even tens of microns. But pioneers […]
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