Core Research Facilities

Welcome to WPI’s Core Research Facilities

WPI provides researchers access to a comprehensive array of research equipment housed within its core facilities, available for both internal and external assisted and unassisted use.

The equipment spans diverse fields, including materials analysis, micro- and nano-fabrication, microscopy, metrology, integrated photonics, high-speed electronics testing, medical imaging, biomechanics instrumentation, and medical device testing.

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Photonics

The Lab for Education and Application Prototypes (LEAP) provides silicon photonics chip-scale testing and characterization services for visible and infrared applications, optical metrology, micro-fludic and two-photon polymerization device fabrication equipment and technical expertise through an open access optics and photonics core research facility.

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Life Sciences & Bioengineering

WPI’s Life Sciences & Bioengineering Center houses instrumentation, histology, and microscopy cores - as well as the vivarium..

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Materials Characterization

The Materials Characterization Laboratory is an analytical user facility, which serves the materials community at WPI and beyond, offering a range of analytical instrumentation (including XRD, SEM, TEM, and FIB-SEM as well as sample preparation tools).

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Cell Engineering

The Cell Engineering Research Equipment Suite is designed to provide WPI researchers, regional industry, and academic partners access to state-of-the-art instruments for quantitative analysis of engineered cells.

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Metal Processing Lab

WPI’s Materials Science and Engineering Laboratories provide a broad range of facilities for internal and external users.

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Medical Engineering and Imaging

The Medical Engineering & Imaging Core (MEIC) is an interdisciplinary research facility supporting medical engineering, device innovation, and translational biomedical research.

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Other Research Facilities

Advanced Manufacturing Facilities

The New England Hub for Advanced Manufacturing, based at WPI, pursues digital manufacturing initiatives to enhance the regional industry competitiveness.

Advanced Research in Drying Facilities and Expertise Additive Manufacturing Capabilities

Fire Protection Engineering

The only facility of its kind at a university, WPI’s Fire Protection Engineering Laboratory advances groundbreaking research in fire science.

Fire Protection Engineering Facility

Innovation Studio

The Innovation Studio’s 78,000 sq. ft. area includes the McDonough Makerspace and the Fitzgerald Prototype Lab and is set up to create, model, and test new ideas and state-of-the-art equipment.

Innovation Studio Makerspace

Microscopes for Hardware Research

Photon Emission/Laser Fault Injection

Researchers using WPI’s AlphaNov microscope system can measure photons emitted by working transistors on an integrated circuit and use lasers to discover fault-sensitive regions on a chip.

Phemos-X

WPI’s Phemox-X is a high-resolution emission microscope that detects weak light and heat emissions in semiconductor devices, enabling researchers to find defects. The system is the first of its kind in New England.

Biomanufacturing Education and Training Center (BETC)

The 10,000-sq.-ft. Biomanufacturing Education and Training Center (BETC) offers space where academia and industry collaborate in innovative partnerships. In this space, biotechnology professionals gain research opportunities and customized workforce development solutions that help advance companies worldwide.

Biomanufacturing Education and Training Center (BETC)

Core Research Facilities

Welcome to WPI’s Core Research Facilities

Internal Users

External Users