Cores Directory

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Listing of research core items

  1. Instrument/equipment

    Abrasive water jet cutting

    The high-pressure abrasive water jet cutter can be best thought of as a computer-controlled bandsaw. It is largely used to cut through flat material stock.

     

     

    James A. Nikkel, PhD

  2. Core/facility
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    Advanced Prototyping Center at Wright Lab

    The Advanced Prototyping Center is a fabrication and design support facility to help Yale researchers with custom instrumentation.

    James A. Nikkel, PhD

    Primary contact Supervisor
  3. 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.

    Brad Erkkila

    Primary contact Director
  4. Instrument/equipment

    Back-end processing

    The cleanroom offers tools for the back-end processing of device fabrication, including a critical-point dryer and scribing and dicing tools, as well as lapping and polishing tools.

    Located within Yale University Cleanroom
  5. Core/facility

    Keck Bioinformatics Resource

    The Bioinformatics Resource offers software support; consultation on DNA/protein sequence, microarray, protein structure, and pathway analysis; and collaboration.

  6. Core/facility

    Keck Biostatistics Resource

    We offer consultation related to statistical and computational analysis of various types of biological and biomedical data, such as gene expression, genotyping, mass spectrometry, and next-generation sequencing.

    Hongyu Zhao, PhD

    Primary contact Director
  7. Core/facility

    CBIC

    The Chemical and Biophysical Instrumentation Center (CBIC) offers NMR spectroscopy, X-ray crystallography, mass spectrometry, and other instruments to characterize and structurally elucidate chemical and biophysical samples.

    Eric Paulson, PhD

    Primary contact Director
  8. Core/facility
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    Chemical Metabolism Core

    Previously called the Islet, Oxygen consumption, Mass Isotopomer flux Core (IOMIC), the Chemical Metabolism Core offers targeted and untargeted metabolomics, stable isotope based metabolic flux analysis, quantitative metabolic panels of central carbon metabolism and adjacent pathways, measurements of cellular bioenergetics,  islet isolation and functional studies. Services include study assistance and data analysis.
     

    Stephan Siebel, MD, PhD

    Primary contact Technical Director
  9. Instrument/equipment

    Chemical vapor deposition

    The chemical vapor deposition (CVD) tools can deposit metal, oxide, and nitride thin films. The cleanroom offers various CVD tools, including plasma-enhanced CVD and atomic layer deposition.

    Located within Yale University Cleanroom
  10. Core/facility
    Wet lab fume hoods

    West Campus Cleanroom

    The cleanroom includes 1200 square feet of wet and dry clean laboratories rated at Class 1000, with features standard to most cleanrooms.

    Lauren McCabe, PhD

    Primary contact Assistant Director, Cleanroom
  11. Instrument/equipment
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    Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC)

    This instrument measures the heat flow of materials across phase transitions​. Technical specifications and limits of the equipment are listed below.

    Amit Datye, PhD

    Primary Contact
  12. Instrument/equipment

    Dry and plasma etching

    Oxford 100 RIE-ICP and Glow Research AutoGlow

    Located within West Campus Cleanroom

    Lauren McCabe, PhD

    Primary contact