Advanced Instrumentation Development Center (AIDC)
About the AIDC
The AIDC’s mission as a specialized hub of technical facilities is to facilitate cross-cutting ideation and innovation; and serve as a resource for engineering expertise, a physical space (or destination) for education and training programs, and a center for community-building efforts, connecting researchers and staff across campus. We work to enable novel and cross-cutting ideation and fabrication activities across a variety of initiatives, including those in quantum science, planetary solutions, and beyond. Our mission stands at the nexus between hardware, computing, and data science.
The Yale AIDC team will support research and teaching through instrument design and fabrication.
Our offerings:
- Professional machining
- Prototype machining
- Electronics
- Research support
Our technical capabilities:
- Custom design and fabrication
- System level design
- Requirement definition and validation
- System level fabrication
- PCB design and testing
Project-based teaching
Coming online in 2026.
Available to Yale researchers & external researchers
Planned new tools
- 5-axis CNC
- 3-axis CNC (larger)
- 3-axis CNC (smaller)
- Suite of new 3D printers
- Water jet (4’ x 8’ bed)
- Laser cutter (50” x 50” 3 kW)
- Wire EDM
- Sinker EDM
- Ultrasonic cleaners
- Vacuum oven
Contacts
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Core/facility
Aberration-Corrected Electron Microscopy (ACEM) Core
Our core's focus is cutting-edge and high-throughput capability in electron microscopy techniques, including TEM, SEM, and FIB.
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Core/facility
Advanced Prototyping Center at Wright Lab
The Advanced Prototyping Center is a fabrication and design support facility to help Yale researchers with custom instrumentation.
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Core/facility
Yale Analytical and Stable Isotope Center (YASIC)
Our analytical services include measurements of stable and radiocarbon isotopes, cations, anions, greenhouse gases, natural γ-radiation, mercury, and nutrients in water or soil extracts.