Wright Lab shared laboratory facility.

Facilities

We support research in fundamental physics by providing shared, on-site facilities for instrumentation development, experimental investigations, and training. Wright Lab is an integral part of the core facilities for instrumentation at Yale.

Explore Instrumentation at Yale

Wright Lab hosts both campus-wide facilities and facilities for the Yale Physics Department. Yale’s research cores provide researchers access to state-of-the-art scientific instrumentation with the intent to help push scientific research to the cutting edge. Each core employs highly trained staff that may provide training and assistance with use of instrumentation as well as aid in experimental design. More information on our facilities is below. 

Yale University Core Facilities at Wright Lab

  • Advanced Prototyping Center

    Advanced fabrication facility and design support for custom instrumentation at Yale with laser and water jet cutting, 3D printing, tube welding, project support, and more.

  • Research Support Shop

    For use by students and researchers with professional supervision. Hands-on training available.

  • Teaching Shop

    For use by students and researchers with professional supervision. Shop classes available during the semester. Professional advice for design and fabrication of projects.

  • J.W. Gibbs Professional Shop

    Staffed by professional machinists. Precision machining, CNC capability, work with plastics and exotic metals. Temporarily relocated, see above link for more information.

Access to Machine Shops

Access for the Yale community to use the teaching shop requires an Environmental Health and Safety orientation, offered regularly at Wright Lab, for both users & their supervisors, and a demonstration of sufficient shop skills to the shop supervisors. Yale offers an introductory shop course PHYS 762: Laboratory in Instrument Design and the Mechanical Arts. For more information, contact Craig Miller. For projects requiring the Gibbs Professional Shop, contact Vincent Bernardo for a consultation.

How to Access and Use the Wright Lab Research Support Shop: Procedures & Rules

Research Cores at Yale

Discover state-of-the-art scientific instruments and services for your research.

Explore Yale research cores

Physics Research Facilities at Wright Lab

  • CAD and Remote Operations Room

    High performance CAD computers with SolidWorks and AutoCAD. Remote operations system with videoconferencing capability.

  • Clean Rooms

    Permanent class 1,000 clean rooms. Customizable soft wall clean rooms for high bay.  Fume hoods and liquid handling.

  • Cryogenic Laboratory

    With mezzanine for large refrigeration equipment. Dilution refrigerator. Laser room.

  • Detector Development Laboratory

    Low Background Facility. Configurable high bay space with cranes and utility support.

  • High bay area "The Vault"

    For large-scale instrument assembly and testing.

  • Laser Rooms

    Several laser rooms and optical laboratories.

  • RF Shielded Room

    8’x8’x8’, with two doors and two panels for RF feed-throughs. Consists of copper screening material and has filtered AC power to 30A.

  • Wood and Plastic Shop

  • Investigator Laboratories

  • Server Rooms for Physics and Astronomy

  • Access to High Performance Computing

    The Wright Lab community also has access to high performance computing at Yale’s Center for Research Computing.

Access to Physics Research Facilities at Wright Lab

For use of Physics Research Facilities at Wright Lab, please contact Jeff Ashenfelter and/or director Karsten Heeger. 

Facilities Contacts