Motion Capabilities & Engineering Resources

Our team of application and design engineers support you from concept to in-depth technical discussion and analysis. Support includes design and application engineering as well as project management. System metrology, on-site installation, documentation and training are also available.

Motion Assemblies - XY, XYZ, Gimbals and More

Application engineers assist you in selecting and modifying standard motion products to create custom solutions such as gimbal assemblies and engineered multi-axis systems. Performance optimization to the application requirements is available along with metrology documentation of the system.

Motorized Gimbal Mounts

To accommodate various types of loads and positioning requirements, Newport Gimbals are offered in either half-yoke or full-yoke configuration in various sizes. Heidenhain encoders can be integrated to provide sub-arcsec level accuracy and sensitivity, metrology services are provided for orthogonality and axis alignment.

Motorized Gantry Solutions

Gantries are built from standard products or are customized to specific customer needs. Gantries provide motion in either 2 axis (XY) or 3 axis (XYZ). Precision rotation stages may also be added for further adjustment of the sample or the tool/sensor.

Air Bearing Motion Solutions

Newport has designed and manufactured high precision motion systems and complex positioning equipment that leading OEMs use for over 1000 facilities around the world. Newport air bearing solutions are offered in three families of products, DynamYX, HybrYX and SinguLYS.

Advanced Motion Products

Custom development solutions are available by modifying standard products such as linear stages, rotation stages, actuators or hexapods for higher speed, higher loads, long travel, higher resolution, different orientations and sensitivity requirements. In addition, manual positioning stages can be used along with actuators to create custom motion systems at lower costs than motorized stages alone.

Advanced Motion Electronics

Newport’s motion controllers provide advanced features of synchronized motion and contouring, trajectories, error compensation, event and triggers function, position capture, interferometric feedback and data acquisition. This covers various levels of applications from simple research that moves an optic, to complex industrial uses that requires coordination of multiple axes with other instruments. Solutions are also available for collision prevention or automation software.

Custom Motion Interfaces

To facilitate the multi-axis assembly using standard products, customized interface plates can be provided on request. It includes the angle bracket, payload adaptor plates, base plates or standard interface plate with special holes specifications.

Environmental Preparation for Motion Control

Special environmental preparation is available for standard as well as custom products including preparation for clean room, vacuum, ultra high vacuum, extreme temperature and EUV requirements.

Synchrotron Solutions

Newport provides solutions to meet the exact needs of various experiments in synchrotron applications, ranging from X-ray scattering, imaging and XAFS to surface, material and thin film diffraction, powder diffraction, crystallography, tomography, inspection and metrology.

Advanced Turnkey Motion Solutions

These are advanced systems are designed to solve complex motion problems with long term, high precision performance, including diffractometry solutions and multi-axis turnkey systems. Leveraging decades of experience and innovative technologies such as air bearing, ceramic materials and advanced control electronics, our advanced systems give customers that competitive edge.