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Compact compliant parallel XY nano-positioning stage with high dynamic performance, small crosstalk, and small yaw motion

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This paper presents a novel XY nano-positioning stage using a compliant parallel mechanism with small crosstalk and yaw motion. A parallel mechanism can implement multi-degree-of-freedom motion with a small footprint. However, this implies crosstalk between the motion axes. In an effort to reduce crosstalk and yaw motion, we proposed a novel flexure guide structure. The proposed stage consists of two flexure displacement amplifiers driven by piezoelectric actuators, two combined double four-bar flexure guides, and two additional parallelogram guides. To prevent the rotational deformation of one amplifier due to the transverse force of the other, we introduce an intermediate leaf spring at the output ends of the amplifiers. This new parallel mechanism is optimally designed based on an analytical model of the stage to assure small crosstalk and yaw motion. The analytical model is verified as being well-described using a finite element analysis. An XY nano-positioning stage of size 150 × 150 × 30 mm3 is fabricated following the optimal design. Experiments are carried out to verify the static and dynamic performances of the proposed XY nano-positioning stage. The proposed stage has an X and Y directional motion range of 120 μm in closed loop. The resolution of the stage is 3 nm in both the X and Y directional motions. The actual crosstalk and yaw were limited to 0.770 μm and 13.5 μrad, while in the optimal design they were estimated at 0.5 μm and 15 μrad, respectively.

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This work was supported by the Industrial Strategic Technology Development Program (10063010) funded by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE) of the Republic of Korea.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Republic of Korea

    Hak-Jun Lee, Siwoong Woo, Jaehyun Park, Jae-Heon Jeong, Jiheun Ryu & Dae-Gab Gweon

  2. Center for Mass and Related Quantities, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Daejeon, Republic of Korea

    Myeonghyeon Kim

  3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ajou University, Suwon, Republic of Korea

    Young-Man Choi

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Lee, HJ., Woo, S., Park, J. et al. Compact compliant parallel XY nano-positioning stage with high dynamic performance, small crosstalk, and small yaw motion. Microsyst Technol 24, 2653–2662 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00542-017-3626-z

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