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January 27, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Researchers from the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico have developed a new way of mimicking photosynthetic proteins to manipulate platinum at the nanoscale. The method has the potential of changing the...

December 17, 2003 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Two hundred sixty-one Sandia National Laboratories inventors and authors earned almost $660,000 in royalty award distributions during FY03, ending September 30, 2003. The award average was $795, and the highest award was $84,124.

December 11, 2003 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Using a method usually more suitable to billiards than atomic physics, researchers from Sandia National Laboratories and Columbia University have created extremely cold molecules that could be used as the first step in creating Bose-Einstein molecular...

December 1, 2003 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Cooperative Monitoring Center-Amman (Jordan), modeled after Sandia’s Cooperative Monitoring Center, officially opened with a recent inauguration ceremony. Sandia germinated the idea for the new center, worked hard to bring it to reality, and continues...

November 19, 2003 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The budget for the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories is on the road to surpassing $2.2 billion for FY2004, a record amount as the Labs expands its efforts in key national security, energy, and defense programs.

November 18, 2003 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — From decontamination to white light generation, semiconductor based ultraviolet (UV) light sources will have many applications, including an important role in America’s security,” says Jerry Simmons, manager of Semiconductor Material and Device Science...

November 18, 2003 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories developing ultraviolet (UV) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) recently demonstrated two deep UV semiconductor optical devices that set records for wavelength/power output. One emits at a wavelength of 290 nanometers...

November 17, 2003 • PHOENIX, Ariz. — At the Supercomputing 2003 show in Phoenix this week, Sandia National Laboratories and an interdisciplinary team of scientists representing seven other institutions are demonstrating a new online data-sharing Web portal that may eventually change the way...

October 29, 2003 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories will conduct a security stand-down at all of its sites in the latter part of November. This is the latest in a series of initiatives to improve security at the lab.

October 21, 2003 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is offering the nation’s outstanding new Ph.D.s in science and engineering an opportunity to conduct independent research of their own choosing within a national security context through a new prestigious postdoctoral research...

October 21, 2003 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers are assisting with NASA’s HyTEx (Hypersonic Technology Experiment) program to create new mature technologies that will benefit next-generation launch vehicles, a follow-on to the current...

October 20, 2003 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Association of University Research Parks (AURP) has presented Sandia National Laboratories its 2003 Excellence in Technology Transfer Award. The association presented the award in September at its 2003 Annual Conference in Vancouver, Canada.

October 16, 2003 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Addressing the need to provide information to the public on an important national security capability, Sandia National Laboratories has launched an external web site devoted to its Chemical/Biological Defense (“Chem/Bio”) program.

October 15, 2003 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories have developed a new lightweight material to withstand ultra-high temperatures on hypersonic vehicles, such as the space shuttle.

October 7, 2003 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Sandia National Laboratories has developed a series of compact, hand-held detection systems that place the capability of a fully functional chemistry laboratory at the fingertips of a trained field operator. Sandia is actively soliciting industry partners...

September 29, 2003 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. As the popularity of wind energy rapidly grows worldwide, researchers at the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories are developing ways to lower the cost of this alternative energy and enable turbines to produce more power.

September 29, 2003 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Wind gusts often provide problems for wind turbines. They cause extraneous blade motion, resulting in additional blade fatigue that reduces the life of the blade.

September 29, 2003 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — New Mexico’s most ambitious wind farm, called the New Mexico Wind Energy Center, recently started producing electricity for the Public Service Company of New Mexico, the state’s largest electric and gas utility. The center, the world’s third-largest wind...

September 23, 2003 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Pursuing commercialization of technologies spawned by its highly successful µChemLab™ project, Sandia National Laboratories is actively soliciting industry partners to license, manufacture, and sell a unique suite of microfluidic connection products.

September 22, 2003 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Anyone visiting a nursing home has seen the horror of humans surviving beyond their brains’ ability to make sense of their surroundings.

September 17, 2003 • INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM, SAN JOSE, Calif. — Sandia National Laboratories today announced at the Intel Developer Forum it will demonstrate an Intel-based next-generation, High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster, the first such cluster to utilize PCI Express visualization systems.

September 16, 2003 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Officials of Sandia National Laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology this week are establishing the Center for Energetic Materials and Energetic Devices (CEMED).

September 9, 2003 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Engineers at Sandia National Laboratories in California have designed a miniature power supply device with potential applications in drug delivery systems, medicine, portable detection and analysis, and a host of electronic devices.