Piezo rotation stages | 'XRT-U'

You’re looking at a Xeryon miniature piezo rotation stage driven by an ultrasonic resonant motor. This is not your regular piezo technology.

Our Crossfixx™ ultrasonic piezo motor uses vibration to move a ceramic tip in an elliptical pattern at a very high frequency (80 kHz - 180 kHz). Spring-loaded against a ceramic strip inside the stage, it generates very small but rapid movements, resulting in high-speed motion and silent operation with a long lifetime.

This gives you the best of both worlds:

1) The lifetime and speed of an electromagnetic motor.
2) The precision and compactness of a piezo rotation stage.

Xeryon’s ultrasonic piezo rotation stages offer the precision and size of traditional piezo stages, without their typical drawbacks.

Our rotation stages are much faster, have a much (much!) longer lifetime, operate noiselessly, consume less power, and operate at a much lower voltage at the piezo element.

Traditional stick-slip piezo stages operate at much lower frequencies, typically within the frequency range of small mechanical components. Apart from being in the human audible spectrum, this introduces the risk of the stick-slip piezo motor making the entire system vibrate, rather than only the motor itself.

Xeryon's ultrasonic rotation stages operate at much higher frequencies (80 - 180 kHz), ensuring silent operation and no unwanted vibrations.

An in-depth comparison of the different types of piezo motors can be found here.

Xeryon’s piezo rotary stages offer a unique combination of high rotational speed, precision and durability in an ultra-compact design, overcoming the limitations of traditional rotary stages where trade-offs have to be made (e.g. size factor or speed). Xeryon’s stages are gearless, self-locking, energy-efficient and operate at low voltages. They don’t produce a magnetic field, are back-drivable, and free from drift or play.

Yes, this is possible. All of our stages can be paired, sometimes even without the need of mounting brackets. Easily build multi-DOF setups using rotary and / or linear stages.

Check out our stages' combination guide here.