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Calibrating optics
Independent research facility Indianapolis, IN 39.7684° N · 86.1581° W

Matter has a voice.

IndyLabs instruments the very small to engineer the very new — listening to materials, cells, and light until they give up something useful.

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01 — Approach

Most labs publish papers. We publish proof — instruments, materials, and organisms that hold up outside the building.

Est. 2019 · White River North
Former foundry, 1907 m²
ISO 5–7 cleanroom bays

We work in the gap between a measurement and a product. In a converted foundry on the White River, our teams build the apparatus most questions are still waiting for — then use it to push materials, biosystems, and light past their spec sheets. If it survives our floor, it survives the world.

Eight ways in

Divisions · 08
Div.01Spec. CM-114

Condensed matter

Quantum materials, superconducting films, and lattice defects coaxed into doing work — grown, strained, and measured down to single atoms.

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Div.02Spec. SB-207

Synthetic biology

Engineered cell lines and enzymatic pathways treated like industrial machinery — versioned, benchmarked, and scaled from microliters to vats.

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Div.03Spec. PH-330

Photonics & sensing

Light as a precision tool — on-chip interferometry, hyperspectral imaging, and field sensors that read chemistry at a distance.

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Div.04Spec. CP-441

Computation

Simulation and machine learning pointed at the bench — closing the loop between hypothesis, robot, and result, overnight instead of over months.

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Div.05Spec. ES-512

Energy & storage

Electrochemistry without the folklore — cells torn down, cycled to death, and rebuilt until the chemistry tells us why it failed.

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Div.06Spec. RA-618

Robotics & automation

The hands of the lab — gantries, arms, and schedulers that run experiments through the night and hand researchers the morning's answers.

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Div.07Spec. AM-725

Additive manufacturing

Printing in metals, ceramics, and gels with closed-loop melt control — parts qualified layer by layer, not batch by batch.

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Div.08Spec. MT-808

Metrology & standards

The division the other seven answer to — calibration chains, reference artifacts, and uncertainty budgets that make every number defensible.

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Built in the Circle City

Measured here, felt everywhere.

0 Experiments in flight

Concurrent studies across all eight divisions

0 Resident researchers

One floor, no departments between benches

00 Cleanroom bays

ISO 5–7, wafer growth to sterile cell work

0nm Imaging resolution

Atomic-scale microscopy on the cryo-TEM line

The foundry,
refit for atoms

A century-old casting hall now holds six cleanroom bays, a cryogenics line, and a robotic wet lab — heavy industry traded for precision, on the same floor. 02 — Facility · 1907 m²

Bay 02 — Deposition & growth
Cryostat hall — 9 mK
Optics tunnel — 40 m
Robotic wet lab — 24/7
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