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Red Sky/Mesa wins Oracle green award
September 22, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Red Sky/Red Mesa, listed by Top500 Supercomputer Sites as the 10th fastest computer in the world, has been selected as one of the 15 winners of Oracle’s Enable the Eco-Enterprise award. “Red Sky/Red Mesa is the most eco-transparent (energy efficient) compute platform Sandia has deployed to date,”...
Categories: Awards, Computing, Operations / Budget

Sandia mourns death of former executive, Hall of Fame inductee
September 19, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — W.J. “Jack” Howard, a former Sandia National Laboratories executive vice president who was a valued national adviser on U.S. nuclear policy, passed away Sept. 13 at the age of 88. During his career, Howard, who lived in Albuquerque, was responsible for the early recognition that U.S. nuclear...
Categories: Awards, Operations / Budget

Sandia Labs’ device helps U.S. troops in Afghanistan disable improvised explosive devices
September 10, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A device developed by Sandia National Laboratories researchers that shoots a blade of water capable of penetrating steel is headed to U.S. troops in Afghanistan to help them disable deadly improvised explosive devices, or IEDs — the No. 1 killer and threat to troops in Afghanistan, according...
Categories: Military / Defense, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Sandia National Laboratories helping to safeguard world’s dangerous biological agents
September 2, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Safeguarding the world’s most dangerous biological agents has been a top priority for a dedicated group of Sandia scientists for more than a decade, and now, this team is training laboratory leaders from around the world to secure deadly agents such as anth...
Categories: Homeland security, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Reborn Ion Beam Lab has grand opening, with talk by Sen. Bingaman to follow
August 19, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.—Sandia National Laboratories’ President Paul Hommert welcomes U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman, U.S. Rep. Martin Heinrich and Albuquerque Mayor Richard Berry, who will speak at the grand opening of Sandia National Laboratories’ reborn Ion Beam Laboratory in a ceremony from 9:30–10:30 a.m. Friday, Aug. 20. B-roll of the intense beams...
Categories: Media advisories

Sandia Science & Technology Park’s Applied Technology Associates announces plant expansion
August 18, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Sandia Science & Technology Park and Applied Technology Associates (ATA) will host Sen. Jeff Bingaman, Rep. Martin Heinrich and Albuquerque Mayor Richard Berry on Thursday, Aug. 19, as the company announces a building expansion that has more than doubled the size of its Albuquerque headquarters. The...
Categories: Awards, Operations / Budget, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Kinked nanopores slow DNA passage for easier sequencing
July 30, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —  In an innovation critical to improved DNA sequencing, a markedly slower transmission of DNA through nanopores has been achieved by a team led by Sandia National Laboratories researchers.  Solid-state nanopores sculpted from silicon dioxide are generally straight, tiny tunnels more than a thousand times smaller than the...
Categories: Nanotechnology
This image, taken by a transmission electron microscope at the University of New Mexico, shows the unique kinked nanopore array platform.

Sandia Labs returns to normal operations
July 12, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — All shelter-in-place orders to Sandia National Laboratories employees have been lifted. Earlier today, multiple shootings occurred at the EMCORE facility outside Kirtland Air Force Base. The Eubank employee and contractor security gates are closed although it is believed they will open for business tomorrow as normal. Members of the news...
Categories: Media advisories

Tom Friedmann awarded NASA Exceptional Engineering Achievement Medal
July 12, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researcher Tom Friedmann was awarded NASA’s Exceptional Engineering Achievement Medal (EEAM) at a ceremony June 15 at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif. He received the award for the quality of the diamond-like carbon thin films he contributed to the Genesis science...
Categories: Awards, Materials Science, Nanotechnology, Operations / Budget

Sandia Labs reports first successful integration of a terahertz quantum-cascade laser and diode mixer into a monolithic solid-state transceiver
June 29, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers have taken the first steps toward reducing the size and enhancing the functionality of devices in the terahertz (THz) frequency spectrum. By combining a detector and laser on the same chip to make a compact receiver, the researchers rendered unnecessary the precision alignment...
Categories: Materials Science, Nanotechnology
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