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Unique Sandia facility celebrates 10 years of making the world a safer place

July 28, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories’ Cooperative Monitoring Center (CMC) celebrates its 10th anniversary on Thursday, July 29, with a series of speakers that reflect the Center’s international missions. (See speakers list below.)

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Kent Biringer (center) of Sandia’s Cooperative Monitoring Center (CMC) shows Nazir Kamal (left), an international relations expert from Pakistan, and Pravin Sawhney, a journalist and former major in the Indian army, a model of a nuclear missile in this 1998 photo taken at the CMC. Kamal and Sawhney were at Sandia as visiting scholars investigating missile transparency between their two countries as part of the CMC’s ongoing Visiting Scholars program.

Red Storm to be assembled in New Mexico

July 27, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Red Storm will be faster, yet smaller and less expensive, than previous supercomputers, say researchers at the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sandia National Laboratories, where the machine will be assembled.

Categories: Computing, Science / Technology / Engineering

Sandia Labs locates floppy disk

July 16, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has located a floppy disk that had turned up missing in a recent inventory. The floppy disk, which had been marked classified, was found about 1 p.m. today (Friday). Sandia had reported the disk as missing June 30 in a wall-to-...

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Sandia Labs searches for missing floppy disk

July 15, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is searching for a missing floppy disk that was marked classified.

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Sandia wins two R&D 100 Awards

July 9, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Two Sandia National Laboratories research teams have won R&D 100 Awards in the annual competition sponsored by the Chicago-based R&D Magazine.

Categories: Awards

CHRISTINE MITCHELL looks through a substrate that was made for the new cantilever epitaxy growth process.

Sandia partners with DOE in science education initiative

July 8, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Science Education Initiative announced today by U.S. Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham will have strong support from Sandia National Laboratories, which already has a long history of community, hands-on science learning programs.

Categories: Community / Education

$6 million appropriation to focus Sandia research on drinking water desalination, removal of arsenic

June 28, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Research in the areas of desalination and removal of arsenic in water will step up at the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sandia National Laboratories over the next few years, the result of a $6 million allocation in the FY2004 federal Energy and...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water

Sandia establishes CRADA with FM Global

June 22, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sandia National Laboratories’ Engineering Sciences Center, and its Fire Science and Technology Department, have established a collaborative research and development agreement (CRADA) with FM Global, a large-los...

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Wireless nanocrystals efficiently radiate visible light

June 22, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A wireless nanodevice that functions like a fluorescent light — but potentially far more efficiently — has been developed in a joint project between the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Los Alamos and Sandia national laboratories.

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Energy transfer diagrammed from nano-thin layers of Sandia-grown quantum wells to the LANL nanocrystals above the nanolayers.

Distributed Information Systems Laboratory (DISL) dedicated at Sandia/California

June 10, 2004 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — A dedication ceremony for the new Distributed Information Systems Laboratory (DISL) took place today on the grounds of Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore.

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Located at the heart of the Sandia/California site, and with portions of the building in both the classified limited area and the unclassified property protection area, the state-of-the-art Distributed Information Systems Laboratory (DISL) will be easily accessible to all people on site and to visitors.

Groundbreaking ceremony for joint Sandia/Los Alamos nanotechnology center to be held May 25 at Sandia

May 19, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A DOE groundbreaking ceremony for the 96,000 square foot core facility of the Sandia/Los Alamos joint Center for Integrative Nanotechnology (CINT) — the first Sandia laboratory facilities in Albuquerque built outside Kirtland Air Force Base — will be held...

Categories: Nanotechnology

Sandia helps 296 state businesses in 2003 through New Mexico Small Business Assistance Program

May 18, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories completed its third year of providing technical assistance to New Mexico small businesses last year through a tax credit passed by the New Mexico Legislature. Nearly 300 small businesses were assisted throughout New Mexico in 2003.

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Sandia, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs to collaborate

May 6, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sandia National Laboratories and the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (UCCS) will sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) as a basis for future technical collaborations at 11 a.m. May 11 at the UCCS...

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Sandia polymer electrolyte membrane brings goal of a high temperature PEM fuel cell closer

May 5, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A new type of polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) is being developed by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories to help bring the goal of a micro fuel cell closer to realization using diverse fuels like glucose, methanol, and...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water

SANDIA RESEARCHERS Cy Fujimoto, left, and Chris Cornelius hold a test micro fuel cell with the Sandia membrane. Next to Fujimoto is a micro fuel test station.

Sandia signs agreement with National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development

May 3, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In an effort to expand teaming efforts with the Native American community, Sandia has entered into a formal Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development (NCAIED).

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Sandia’s VP Jim Tegnelia named chairman of the Army Science Board

May 3, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Jim Tegnelia, VP for Department of Defense Programs at the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sandia National Laboratories, has been appointed chairman of the Army Science Board (ASB) for approximately two years.

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Sandia VP Jim Tegnelia is chairman of the Army Science Board.

Sandia dedicates Joint Computational Engineering Lab

April 30, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sandia National Laboratories’ dedicated its Joint Computational Engineering Laboratory (JCEL) this week.

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EnergyGard Southwest seminar to focus on keeping nation’s electric utilities and gas operations safe

April 29, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Keeping this nation’s electric utilities and gas operations safe will be the topic of a May 3-4 seminar, EnergyGard Southwest, in Albuquerque sponsored by the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories and the Public Service Company (PNM) of New...

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Three Sandia employees named to Hispanic Engineer and Information Technology magazine top 50 list

April 22, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Three employees from the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sandia National Laboratories have been selected as part of the “50 Most Important Hispanics in Technology and Business” list for 2004 by Hispanic Engineer & Information Technology magazine.

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Possible uses include biological labeling, laser light, catalysts, memory storage, and relief for physicists

April 22, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A wish list for nanotechnologists might consist of a simple, inexpensive means — actually, any means at all — of self-assembling nanocrystals into robust orderly arrangements, like soup cans on a shelf or bricks in a wall, each separated from the next by an...

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NOW, SIT UP: Jeff Brinker (left) and Hongyou Fan observe satisfactory fluorescence by their well-trained nanocrystals in water solution. The dark vial holds gold nanocrystals; the orange and green are semiconductor nanocrystals.

Sandia National Laboratories new ‘nanotractor’ actuator allows study of friction at the microscale

March 25, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Creating a tool small enough to measure friction on a microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) device is not an easy task. The tool has to be about the width of a human hair.

Categories: Nanotechnology

Maarten de Boer and Alex Corwin investigate friction at the microscale using a recently-developed nanotractor actuator fabricated using the Sandia Ultraplanar MicroMachine Technology (SUMMiT VTM) process.

Sandia’s ‘TEPIC’ offers pourable, high-strength, high-temperature lightweight support foam for composite manufacturers

March 22, 2004 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, Calif., have developed a high temperature, high strength structural support foam, TEPIC, that has proven to be an exceptionally versatile material for use as molded-to-shape..

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20 kg pour of TEPIC and machined structural part.

Sandia combustion researchers successfully measure particulate emissions on board diesel passenger vehicle

March 22, 2004 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Using a unique laser-based, soot heating technique, a team led by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories’ Combustion Research Facility (CRF) has demonstrated the ability to measure “real world” particulate emissions from a vehicle under actual driving...

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The research team with the Volkswagen Jetta test vehicle. From left: Will Bachalo and Greg Payne (Artium), Greg Smallwood (NRC), Pete Witze (Sandia’s CRF), Gary Hubbard (consultant), Brian Graskow (Chevron), and Mike Fidrich (Artium).

Sandia begins major test capabilities upgrade

March 18, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — New construction is under way at the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Sandia National Laboratories on a $110 million, five-year program to revitalize the Laboratories’ large-scale test capabilities.

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Scott Rowland, of Sandia’s planning organization, studies blueprints for work under way at the Labs’ Aerial Cable Facility. Plans at the site call for replacement of anchors, pulleys, sheaves, control winches, and a new rocket sled catch box.

Sandia and three University of Texas campuses to announce collaboration agreement

March 18, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sandia National Laboratories and the University of Texas at Arlington, The University of Texas at Dallas, and The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, all components of the University of ...

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