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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 2011
Filed:
Nov. 03, 2006
Applicant:
James M. Young, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Inventor:
James M. Young, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Assignee:
Bruker Nano, Inc., Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 19/00 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A levitated XY stage with a mechanism to disable the bearing element to allow the physical elements of the stage to come into contact with one another and 'Coulomb weld' together, thereby eliminating drift. Preferably, the XY position shift of the stage that results from disabling the bearing is measured, and feed-forward communication to, for example, the AFM scanner is used to enable an offset and remove the error.