Mounting to standard optical tables
Connect positioners to M6 or ¼"-20 grids for room-temperature setup and testing.

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Opto-Mechanics · Cryogenic Piezo Stages - Installation plates
Pin-aligned installation plate for directly mounting most MultiFields LT motion units to an optical table or base plate; supplied as the cryogenic PinsPlate adapter.
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AP.LT.PinsPlate is listed in the Cryogenic Piezo Stages - Installation plates family.
Full specifications for this product are available on request. Contact us for the datasheet.
Application context
Connect positioners to M6 or ¼"-20 grids for room-temperature setup and testing.
Assemble and align a stack on the bench before it goes into the cryostat.
Pin-aligned versions return the stack to a known position after every service cycle.
Specifying this part
Mounts the assembly to a standard M6 or ¼"-20 optical table grid. The PinsPlate variant adds alignment pins and a pre-routed connector pin-out, so the stage returns to the same place after a thermal cycle — which matters when one cycle costs a day.
Stick-slip inertial drives dissipate energy per step and draw no holding current once stopped, so the steady-state load on the mixing chamber is the wiring loom rather than the motor. Anchor the loom at each temperature stage and thermalise the moving body with an FTC copper braid.
Titanium bodies (BeCu on the .ULT variants) and BeCu fasteners throughout, rated for operation to 35 T and down to 30 mK with the .ULT option, at 2 × 10⁻¹¹ mbar with .UHV. A single steel screw substituted at installation is enough to compromise a high-field assembly.
Full series comparison, controller pairing and mounting hardware on the cryogenic piezo stages overview, or work through the selection with the configurator.
Before you specify
Engineering context for choosing this class of component, with the tradeoffs worked through on real specifications.
Precision motionTranslate temperature, pressure, travel, payload, feedback, and motion requirements into a defensible cryogenic-stage shortlist.
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Precision motionThe practical companion to the selection guide: a requirements worksheet, coarse and fine stage pairing, mechanical stack order, thermal anchoring, the wiring chain to the controller, vacuum and field checks, a commissioning sequence, and three worked configurations.
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NanopositioningWhy an open-loop piezo is wrong by 15 % of its travel, how creep grows with the logarithm of hold time, what strain-gauge and capacitive feedback actually fix — and the bandwidth and sensor noise a servo costs you in return.
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