Technologien der Mikropositionierung. Stand und Entwicklungstendenzen in Europa Kurzstudie

This short study shows that in the European area high efforts are made to develop more and more precisely working drives and products based on the same. In the process it is shown that piezoelectric, electrostrictive, electrostatic and magnetostrictive drive principles are utilized to an increasing extent to ensure positioning accuracies down to the nanometer range. But also conventional motor, hydrostatic and purely mechanical drive principles are capable of reaching positioning errors of less than one #mu#m. The product range in which highly accurate precision drives are used is very versatile. Applications primarily include optics, production of precision and very small components, production of electronic circuits, precision measurement technique, medical engineering, biology, and aerospace (e.g. positioning of solar cells for energy recovery, positioning of antennas and the like, navigation (course stabilization)). (orig.)Available from TIB Hannover: RR 3532(23) / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekSIGLEBundesministerium fuer Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie, Bonn (Germany)DEGerman