Listing of research core items
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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.
Located within Advanced Prototyping Center at Wright LabJames A. Nikkel, PhD
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Keck Bioinformatics Resource
The Bioinformatics Resource offers software support; consultation on DNA/protein sequence, microarray, protein structure, and pathway analysis; and collaboration.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
Located within Mechanical and Thermal Analysis Instrumentation Core (MTAIC) -
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Dry and plasma etching
Oxford 100 RIE-ICP and Glow Research AutoGlow
Located within West Campus Cleanroom