Cores Directory
Search for the resources you need to answer your research questions.
Active Filters:
Listing of research core items
-
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.
Located within Advanced Prototyping Center at Wright LabJames A. Nikkel, PhD
-
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.
-
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.
-
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 -
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.
-
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 -
Core/facility
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 -
Instrument/equipment
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) -
Instrument/equipment
Dry and plasma etching
Oxford 100 RIE-ICP and Glow Research AutoGlow
Located within West Campus Cleanroom -
Instrument/equipment
Dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA)
This instrument measures the dynamic and static deformation of solids in bending and tension.
Located within Mechanical and Thermal Analysis Instrumentation Core (MTAIC) -
Core/facility
Earth Materials Characterization Center (EMC2)
We offer materials physics equipment including microscopy, spectroscopy, deformation tools, and sample-prep tools for sample characterization work.
-
Core/facility
YSM Electronic & Machine Shop
We offer custom design, fabrication, and repair services at the Yale School of Medicine as well as tools for loan. We build prototype devices for medical research.