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Sandia adds augmented reality to training toolbox
February 6, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — When you hear the term “serious gaming” you might envision professional eSports competitors gearing up for a League of Legends World Championship in front of tens of thousands of live fans and tens of millions of streaming fans. At Sandia National Laboratories, serious gaming means something else...
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Tam Le and Todd Noel use augmented reality

Sandia receives ENERGISE award to study how to help utilities better manage power systems
January 31, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories has been awarded a three-year, $2.5 million award to help utility companies better visualize, manage and protect power systems as they include increasing numbers of distributed energy resources (DER) such as wind and solar. The project creates open-source advanced distribution management system (ADMS) algorithms...
Categories: Awards, Renewable energy, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Sandia’s solar glitter closer to market with new licensing agreement
January 31, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An Albuquerque company founded by a Sandia National Laboratories scientist-turned-entrepreneur has received a license for a “home-grown” technology that could revolutionize the way solar energy is collected and used. The licensing agreement was signed Jan. 23 between mPower Technology Inc. and Sandia for microsystems enabled photovoltaics (MEPV)....
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Designing diagnostic labs that are safe, specific and sustainable
January 24, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An outbreak is like a wildfire; the sooner it’s caught, the easier it is to fight, said Vips Halkjaer-Knudsen, a lab design expert at Sandia National Laboratories. To detect an outbreak early — whether Ebola, Zika or influenza — healthcare workers must have a local, trustworthy diagnostic...
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Bill Arndt in biosafety demonstration lab

Small, NM businesses key factor in Sandia’s 2016 economic impact
January 12, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories spent more than $1 billion on goods and services in fiscal year 2016, up more than $56 million from the previous year, and New Mexico businesses received more than $381 million, or 37 percent of the total, according to the labs’ latest economic impact...
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Kirk McWethy, owner and president of SDV Construction Inc. of Albuquerque, has been a Sandia contractor since 2006. His service-disabled veteran-owned small business has 44 employees and has completed numerous construction projects at the Labs, including an addition to Bldg. 905 shown in this photo. “I love being a Sandia contractor because it is a true partnership. Both sides work to make the other successful,” says McWethy, an Air Force veteran. “The people at Sandia want us to succeed and continue to grow.” (Photo by Randy Montoya) Click on the thumbnail for a high-resolution image.

Grand Canyon rim-to-rim hikers provide data for Sandia study of health, performance
January 4, 2017 • LIVERMORE, Calif. – It takes a special type of person to hike from one rim of the Grand Canyon to the other in a single day. These motivated, resilient athletes now are helping researchers at Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico (UNM) to collect an…
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Honey, I shrunk the circuit
December 20, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers have shown it’s possible to make transistors and diodes from advanced semiconductor materials that could perform much better than silicon, the workhorse of the modern electronics world.The breakthrough work tak…
Categories: Materials Science, Science / Technology / Engineering
Sandia National Laboratories electrical engineer Bob Kaplar heads a project studying ultrawide bandgap semiconductor materials. The project is answering such questions as how materials behave and how to work with them steps toward improving everything from consumer electronics to power grids. (Photo by Randy Montoya) Click on the thumbnail for a high-resolution image.

Face to face: Sandia Labs invites businesses to talk contracts
December 12, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Companies that want to supply products and services to Sandia National Laboratories have a new way to learn the ropes. Sandia now is offering open houses where small and diverse suppliers can talk to staff and contracting experts about doing business with the labs. The first open...
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Sandia National Laboratories supplier diversity specialist Patricia Brown, right, and Theresa Carson, senior manager of Policy, Assurance and Outreach, greet business owners at a Sandia supplier open house. (Photo by Lonnie Anderson)

Four Sandia researchers named American Physical Society fellows
December 7, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M — Four Sandia National Laboratories researchers have been named fellows of the American Physical Society (APS) for outstanding contributions to physics. The awardees are: François Léonard: for fundamental studies of the physics of nanoscale electronic…
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Francois Leonard

Sandia Labs, Singapore join forces to develop energy storage
December 6, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the government of Singapore’s Energy Market Authority (EMA) that will tap into the labs’ expertise in energy storage. EMA is the statutory body in Singapore responsible for ensuring a reliable and secure energy supply,...
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Dan Borneo, center in blue shirt, and other researchers from Sandia National Laboratories met with government representatives in the Southeast Asian island city-state of Singapore. Sandia will help Singapore’s Energy Market Authority set up the country’s first grid energy storage test-bed through a Comprehensive Research and Development Agreement. (Photo courtesy of Sandia National Laboratories) Click on the thumbnail for a high-resolution image.

Sandia Science & Technology Park gives local economy a major boost
December 2, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —The Sandia Science & Technology Park (SS&TP) has generated $2.6 billion worth of economic activity and produced more than $103 million in tax revenue for the state of New Mexico and $15.2 million for the City of Albuquerque since it was established in 1998. That’s the conclusion of...
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Katie Wieck is a student at the Technology Leadership High School, one of the 40-plus businesses and organizations in the Sandia Science & Technology Park. (Photo by Randy Montoya) Click on the thumbnail for a high-resolution image.

Aircraft inspectors have new Sandia course to help detect composite material damage
November 28, 2016, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — As manufacturers build more wings, fuselages and other major commercial aircraft parts out of solid-laminate composite materials, Sandia National Laboratories has shown that aircraft inspectors need training to better detect damage in these structures. So the Airworthiness Assurance Center — operated by Sandia for the Federal Aviation...
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Composite Nondestructive Inspection Techniques course

Former Sandia Labs executive named to National Science Board
November 16, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — President Barack Obama appointed former Sandia National Laboratories acting Vice President and Chief Technology Officer Julia Phillips to a seat on the National Science Board of the National Science Foundation. The president said Phillips and other recent appointees and to national boards are “fine public servants who...
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Julia Phillips, whose career at Sandia National Laboratories spanned 14 years and a variety of management positions, said she will work to keep the U.S. at the forefront of science and engineering as a member of the National Science Board. (Photo by Randy Montoya) Click on the thumbnail for a high-resolution image.

Radiation security team from Sandia works behind the scenes at events to protect public
November 14, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Richard Stump has been to five Super Bowls and hasn't seen a single pass, run or touchdown.[caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] Sandia National Laboratories Radiological Assistance Program senior scientist Richard Stump monitors a football fie…
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Richard Stump in a football stadium.

Nanotechnology manager elected president of Materials Research Society
November 11, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Senior manager Sean Hearne, who leads the Center of Integrated Nanotechnology (CINT) group for Sandia National Laboratories, has been elected president of the Materials Research Society. MRS is an international organization that promotes interdisciplinary materials research with 15,000 members from academia, industry and national labs. Hearne will...
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Portrait of Sean Hearne

American Indian engineers present inaugural award to Sandia diversity specialist
November 10, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Introducing the first recipient of the Blazing Flame Award from the American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) requires a customary introduction. Translated from Navajo: “They call me Marie Capitan. I am Navajo and Alaskan. I am born to t…
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Tritium introduced in fusion experiments at Sandia
November 9, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories Z Machine have opened a new chapter in their 20-year journey toward higher fusion outputs by introducing tritium, the most neutron-laden isotope of hydrogen, to their targets’ fuel. When Z fires, its huge electromagnetic field crushes pre-warmed fuel, forcing it to fuse....
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Dean Rovang

Sandia to evaluate if computational neuroscientists are on track
November 2, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Advanced computers may have beaten experts in chess and Go, but humans still excel at “one of these things is not like the others.” Even toddlers excel at generalization, extrapolation and pattern recognition. But a computer algorithm trained only on pictures of red apples can’t recognize that...
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Sandia's MICrONS team examines a sample test object for IARPA's Machine Intelligence from Cortical Networks (MICrONS) project

Lockheed Martin Mars Experience Bus stops in Albuquerque with virtual tour of red planet
October 24, 2016, Media Advisory • [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] The Generation Beyond: Mars Experience Bus will stop in Albuquerque the week of Oct. 24, giving students a unique opportunity to visit the surface of Mars. (Photo courtesy of Lockheed Martin Corp.) Click on the thumbnail for a h…
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The Generation Beyond: Mars Experience Bus will stop in Albuquerque the week of Oct. 24, giving students a unique opportunity to visit the surface of Mars. (Photos courtesy of Lockheed Martin Corp.)

Diamonds Aren’t Forever: Sandia, Harvard team create first quantum computer bridge
October 14, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — By forcefully embedding two silicon atoms in a diamond matrix, Sandia researchers have demonstrated for the first time on a single chip all the components needed to create a quantum bridge to link quantum computers together. “People have already built small quantum computers,” says Sandia researcher Ryan...
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This stylized illustration of a quantum bridge shows an array of holes etched in diamond with two silicon atoms placed between the holes. (Illustration courtesy of Sandia National Laboratories) Click on the thumbnail for a high-resolution image.
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