SmartStage™ - Open Frame XY Scanning Stage for Microscopy
The SmartStage™ Open Frame XY Scanning Stage by Dover Motion is a technologically advanced platform designed to provide precise linear motion along two orthogonal axes, ideal for high-performance microscopy and life science applications. Utilizing its linear motor stage with an embedded controller, this stage ensures seamless integration and performance optimization. Constructed with robust elements such as linear motion guides, stepper motors, and real-time encoder feedback, it achieves sub-micron to nanometer-level accuracy. With its open aperture design, it's particularly suited for handling large travel ranges while maintaining rapid and precise positioning, essential for tasks like automated microscopy, high-throughput screening, and sample positioning. This platform supports sophisticated applications requiring coordinated motion and high-resolution image capture, compatible with various operating systems and programming interfaces. Additionally, it offers customization options to accommodate specific needs such as travel range and load capacity, ensuring flexibility and efficacy in diverse scientific and industrial environments.
The SmartStage™ Open Frame xy scanning stage, is the first open aperture linear motor stage with an embedded controller physically integrated inside the stage structure providing increased performance and simplified integration.
Benefits of a SmartStage™ Open Frame XY
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ALL controls inside; ONE external cable
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Easy for prototyping
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Cost-effective for production
Leveraging the proven SmartStage™ linear compact architecture and its precise motion solution capability of choice for high-performance microscopy and life science instruments, the SmartStage™ Open Frame XY scanning stage now allows you a wide travel range for your transmissive microscopy applications.
Key benefits:
- Easy design integration. Leverage a common control architecture for your motion stages, while enjoying reduced part count, size, and complexity, with all the controllers built-in, and serviced by a single cable connection per stage.
- Unique motor design provides the compact linear actuator smoother motion with industry-leading velocity stability.
SmartStage™ Open Frame XY is the product of choice for open aperture applications requiring a large travel range, combined with rapid, precise positioning of large masses.
- Optimized for regular or inverted microscopy applications that require an open aperture.
- Space savings: compact linear motor and physically integrated controller stage designed to fit inside benchtop instruments.
- Suitable for slides, well plates, (also optional accommodation for incubators available)
Support applications include:
- Next-generation sequencing (NGS)
- Digital cell morphology
- Automated digital pathology
- Optical metrology instruments
- Semiconductor and nanotechnology imaging
- Digital microscopes
- High content imaging
- Automated cell counting
High Resolution Trigger On Position for Image Capture or Laser Synchronization
- High speed hardware output with < 1 nm resolution for synchronizing stage position with a camera or laser. Ideal for triggering during motion commonly required for TDI Imaging or laser processing.
- A high-speed Trigger On Position output allows precise synchronization of a camera, laser, or other peripheral device with the exact position of the stage. Triggering is configurable at either fixed incremental intervals, or at arbitrary intervals using a user-defined look up table.
Coordinated Motion
- User defined profile mode (UDP) allows stages to coordinate motion using auxiliary inputs. Stages can be driven by another axis or external source to follow defined motion curves based off the input.