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Voltage increases up to 25% observed in closely packed nanowires at Sandia Labs
December 7, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M — Unexpected voltage increases of up to 25 percent in two barely separated nanowires have been observed at Sandia National Laboratories. Designers of next-generation devices using nanowires to deliver electric currents — including telephones, handheld computers, batteries and certain solar arrays — may need to make allowances for...
Categories: Nanotechnology
THE EYE OF RESEARCHER

Rankings released for supercomputers doing “big data”
November 15, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.—The list of supercomputers entered in the Graph500 competition now features 50 competitors, up from nine in its initial release a year ago, said Sandia National Laboratories researcher Richard Murphy, chair of the Graph500 steering committee. New rankings were released Tuesday in Seattle at SC2011, the international conference for...
Categories: Computing, Operations / Budget

Cyber workshop at Sandia Labs seeks potential responses to cyberattacks
October 25, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Among other dubious achievements, hackers have stolen identities, broken into bank accounts and breached computer systems of military contractors. They could conceivably interrupt water or electricity service to targeted populations. And worse. To solve these problems, Sandia National Laboratories has plans to increase cybersecurity research over the...
Categories: Computing, Homeland security

Sandia experts available at international conference on electrical energy and storage
October 17, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —  As our nation moves toward a more robust and flexible electric power grid, energy storage is often cited as the solution to allow greater implementation of renewable and alternative energy sources. Researchers from around the world are gathering in San Diego, Calif., at the Electrical Energy Storage...
Categories: Conferences / Symposia, Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy

Hopes high for revitalized agreement between UNM and Sandia Labs
October 17, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A memorandum of understanding (MOU) of unusual depth and content was signed Sept. 23 by Sandia National Laboratories and executives from the University of New Mexico at the jointly occupied Advanced Material Laboratory on University Boulevard. The growing closeness of two major Albuquerque institutions — often not...
Categories: Awards, Operations / Budget

Sandia receives award for electronics stewardship
October 6, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has received an award for reducing the environmental impacts of the computers, printers and other office electronics it uses through its fiscal year 2010 electronics stewardship activities. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Office of the Federal Environmental Executive, which jointly manage...
Categories: Awards, Operations / Budget

Solar glitter, rescue robot and university partnership earn Sandia technology transfer awards
October 4, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories will begin researching how to use glitter-sized photovoltaic cells in utility-scale solar power systems, which eventually could cut the costs of solar panels in half and nearly double their efficiency. Sandia’s work with industry, other labs and universities to improve the design, materials and...
Categories: Awards, Operations / Budget
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FLC Awards

UNM and Sandia broaden collaboration in science, technology and education
September 22, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — On Friday, Sept. 23, Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico and will sign a new memorandum of understanding (MOU) that significantly strengthens collaborative research and development between the two institutions, expanding the opportunities for students to participate in cutting-edge research and preparing them for a...
Categories: Operations / Budget, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Sandia researchers use wind power expertise to help create U.S. industry for tidal, wave energy production
September 14, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M — A dearth of public information, complicated marine environments and even the corrosive effects of bubbles are among the challenges for companies trying to produce energy from river currents, tides and waves, but Sandia National Laboratories is working on solutions. Sandia is helping companies on the frontier of the...
Categories: Awards, Renewable energy
Tidal Power

Big machines: two radiation generators mark major milestones in helping protect the U.S.
September 7, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Two remarkable pulsed-power machines used to test the nation’s defenses against atomic weapons have surpassed milestones at Sandia National Laboratories: 4,000 firings, called ‘shots,’ on the Saturn accelerator and 9,000 shots on the HERMES III accelerator. Saturn — originally projected to last 5 to 10 years — began...
Categories: Military / Defense, Nuclear Weapons, Science / Technology / Engineering
A photo taken from above and at an angle, showing the large blue rings and center section of Saturn with minimal arcing.

Sandia’s CANARY software protects water utilities from terrorist attacks and contaminants, boosts quality
July 25, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Americans are used to drinking from the kitchen tap without fear of harm, even though water utilities might be vulnerable to terrorist attacks or natural contaminants. Now, thanks to CANARY Event Detection Software — an open-source software developed by Sandia National Laboratories in partnership with the Environmental...
Categories: Biology, Community / Education, Energy / Environment / Water
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CANARY

Sandia’s “Cooler” technology offers fundamental breakthrough in heat transfer for microelectronics, other cooling applications
July 7, 2011 • [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] Sandia’s Jeff Koplow makes an adjustment to an earlier prototype of his Air Bearing Heat Exchanger invention. The technology, known as the “Sandia Cooler,” significantly reduces the energy needed to cool the processor chip…
Categories: Computing, Operations / Budget, Technology transfer / Economic Impact
Jeff Koplow
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