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Suicide bomb detector moves forward with Sandia engineer’s help

February 18, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — On the chilling list of terrorist tactics, suicide bombing is at the top. Between 1981 and 2015, an estimated 5,000 such attacks occurred in more than 40 countries, killing about 50,000 people. The global rate grew from three a year in the 1980s to one a month...

Ice sheet modeling of Greenland, Antarctica helps predict sea-level rise

February 11, 2016 • Sandia Labs research part of five-year multi-partner project titled Predicting Ice Sheet and Climate Evolution at Extreme Scales (PISCEES) LIVERMORE, Calif. — The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets will make a dominant contribution to 21st century sea-level rise if current…
Ice sheet modeling

Sandia Labs takes home three national tech transfer awards

February 4, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories won the Federal Laboratory Consortium’s (FLC) 2016 Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer for a decontamination product that neutralizes chemical and biological agents and for software that helps emergency responders disable improvised explosive devices (IEDs). Business development specialist Bianca Thayer was named Outstanding Technology...

Algae raceway paves path from lab to real-world applications

February 2, 2016, Media Advisory • [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] The new algae raceway testing facility at Sandia National Laboratories will help scientists advance laboratory research to real-world applications. Shown here is one of the three 1,000-liter ponds, outfitted with custom lighting…

Nondestructive testing: Sandia looks inside composites

February 1, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Researcher David Moore holds a rectangle of hard carbon composite material, smooth with a faint woven pattern on its surface. The sample shows normal wear and tear until he turns it over to reveal a circular impact mark with cracks radiating from it.The…
Sandia National Laboratories technologist Andrew Lentfer passes a roller probe over a composite as researcher David Moore checks data on a screen. The nondestructive testing technique sends sound waves into the composite material, returning data with each swipe of the roller probe.

Enormous blades could lead to more offshore energy in U.S.

January 28, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A new design for gigantic blades longer than two football fields could help bring offshore 50-megawatt (MW) wind turbines to the United States and the world. Sandia National Laboratories’ research on the extreme-scale Segmented Ultralight Morphing Rotor (SUMR) is funded by the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced...
Todd Griffith

Sandia Labs spending, economic impact up in 2015

January 21, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories spent roughly $983 million on goods and services in fiscal year 2015, up nearly $21 million from the previous year, and New Mexico businesses received more than $381 million, or 39 percent of the total, according to the labs’ latest economic impact report. U.S....

Sandia Labs playing key role in grid modernization

January 14, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is leading the Security and Resilience area of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Grid Modernization Laboratory Consortium (GMLC) and bringing its strong research capability in grid modernization to help the nation modernize its power grid. The consortium includes scientists and engineers from across 14...
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Unique phononic filter could revolutionize signal processing systems

January 12, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A unique filtering technology that combines light and sound waves on a single chip is expected to better detect radar and communications frequencies. “We have developed a powerful signal filtering technology that could revolutionize signal processing systems that rely solely on conventional electronics,” said Patrick Chu, manager...
Charles Reinke

Thor’s hammer to crush materials at 1 million atmospheres

January 5, 2016 • Sophisticated features may influence eventual Z-machine rebuildALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A new Sandia National Laboratories accelerator called Thor is expected to be 40 times more efficient than Sandia’s Z machine, the world’s largest and most powerful pulsed-power accelerat…

Supercomputer benchmark gains adherents

December 21, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A software program that ranks supercomputers on their ability to solve complex problems rather than on raw speed alone continues to gain traction in the high-performance computing community. More than 60 supercomputers were ranked by the emerging tool, termed the High Performance Conjugate Gradients (HPCG) benchmark, in...
Michael Heroux

Speeding up the hydrogen highway

December 16, 2015 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Drivers are seeing more hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) on the road, but refueling stations for those vehicles are still few and far between. This is about to change, and one reason is a new testing device being validated at California refuel...
hystep

Government relations manager at Sandia Labs honored by American Physical Society

November 24, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Benn Tannenbaum, manager of Sandia National Laboratories’ Washington, D.C., office, has been elected a fellow of the American Physical Society. He was nominated by its Forum on Physics and Society. Tannenbaum was honored “for outstanding contributions to international peace and security by addressing nuclear arms control, nonproliferation...
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Sandia National Laboratories government relations manager Benn Tannenbaum elected American Physical Society fellow.

Sandia wins 5 R&D100 awards and a green technology gold award

November 19, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Competing in an international pool of universities, corporations and government labs, Sandia National Laboratories researchers captured five R&D100 Awards this year. One entry also won the R&D100’s Green Technology Special Recognition Gold Award. R&D Magazine presents the awards each year to researchers whom its editors and judges...

Sandia researcher elected physics fellow after ‘remarkable impact’ in pulsed power

November 18, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researcher Daniel Sinars has been elected a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) through its Division of Plasma Physics. The distinction is awarded to no more than one half of one percent of the society’s membership. Sinars’ citation reads, “For scientific contributions and...
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Daniel Sinars

Managing the data deluge for national security analysts

November 17, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — After a disaster or national tragedy, bits of information often are found afterward among vast amounts of available data that might have mitigated or even prevented what happened, had they been recognized ahead of time. In this information age, national security analysts often find themselves searching for...
Kristina Czuchlewski

Computer researcher at Sandia wins IEEE early career award

November 10, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researcher Kurt Ferreira has been selected for the 2015 IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing Award for Excellence for Early Career Researchers. The award recognizes up to three individuals who have made influential and potentially long-lasting contributions in the field of scalable computing within...
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Researchers offer consulting to companies that license Sandia inventions

November 5, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In a boost to technology transfer, Sandia National Laboratories has launched a program that lets researchers consult for companies that license their Sandia work. “There is a need for this. We hear often in the business community that it would help a lot if our people could...
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