Exploration of small footprint stick-slip piezoelectric actuators for use in the FLEX fibre positioner system for the Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope (WST)

Joseph W. Barrow, Suryansh Saxena, Jon S. Lawrence +2

This work presents a novel stick-slip piezoelectric actuator for the FLEX fibre positioner, addressing the challenge of reducing footprint while maintaining precision in next-gener…