Sources for Optical Components for Microassembly Research
CCD Microscopes and Cameras
- Edmund Optics Complete range of lenses, fiber optic illumination, cameras, tables, fixtures, etc.
- Supercircuits Miniature Cameras
- MicroVideo Miniature cameras and Tx/Rx
- OmniVision Single-Chip Analog & Digital Cameras
- Precision video cameras
- Panasonic Video cameras
Lenses and Optical Components
- Edmund Optics Complete range of lenses, fiber optic illumination, cameras, tables, fixtures, etc.
- Newport Corporation Complete line of lenses, stages, optical tables, etc.
- Thor Labs Complete line of lenses, stages, optical tables, etc.
Force Sensors
- ATI Force Sensors, grippers, quick-change end effectors
- JR3 Force Sensors
- A.L. Design Miniature Load Cells, force sensors
- Entran Miniature Load Cells, force sensors, accelerometers, pressure
- Contrinex Proximity sensors
Actuators
- Micro Mo DC Motors
- Maxon DC Motors
- Escap DC Motors (R/A gearmotors)
- Smoovy Miniature (3mm, 5mm, 8mm) Brushless Motors
Frame Grabbers
- Sensoray, Inc. Motion Control and Frame Grabbers
- InSync Technologies, Inc. Frame Grabbers
- Imagenation Corp. Frame Grabbers
- Sensoray, Inc. Motion Control and Frame Grabbers for ISA, PCI
Nanopositioning
- PI (Physik Instrumente) Piezo actuators, sub-nanometer position sensors, precision stages
- Mad City Labs Piezo actuators, precision stages
- Piezosystem Jena Piezo actuators, multi-axis assemblies
- Sutter Instrument Micropositioning multi-axis stages
Gross Positioning
- Parker Products and Technology
- NEAT can be found in search
- Sutter Instrument Micropositioning multi-axis stages
Motion Control
- Galil, Inc. Motion Control
- Real-Time Devices, Inc. Motion Control, GPS, CPUs
- Sutter Instrument Micropositioning multi-axis stages
- Sensoray, Inc. Motion Control and Frame Grabbers for ISA, PCI
Local Reps
Useful Links
- Voyles' PUMA Page
- Brad Nelson Advance Microsystems Lab
- Sysmelec MEMS Assembly Systems
- IMM German Microtechnology Institute
- IMM American Molecular Manufacturing Institute
- CSEM Micro stuff (ice-based gripper)
rvoyles [at] purdue [dot] edu