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Sandia July 18-20 photovoltaic symposium aimed at increasing work with US industry

June 15, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — With energy and environmental issues at the forefront of the nation’s consciousness, Sandia National Laboratories’ photovoltaic (PV) research group is hosting a three-day symposium on PV, a technology that can help with both issues.

Categories: Conferences / Symposia

Sandia National Laboratories/Lockheed Martin honor New Mexico science teachers

June 6, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Science teachers from 11 metropolitan area high schools have received Excellence in Science Teaching awards from Sandia National Laboratories and Lockheed Martin Corp. (LMC). One of the 11, Lisa Durkin, who teaches science at Los Lunas High School, was...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Sandia supercomputer program released to public

June 6, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A computer program that enables a collection of off-the-shelf desktop computers to rank among the world’s fastest supercomputers has been released to the public by Sandia National Laboratories. The program, called Cplant™ system software, dramatically...

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Sandia arsenic-catchers could help communities supply safer drinking water affordably

May 24, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers have used supercomputers to design new chemicals with flypaper-like arsenic-trapping properties.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Sandia’s new integrated circuit failure analysis technique is fastest ever

May 7, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An optical beam failure analysis technique that detects integrated circuit defects from both the front and back of the device has been developed at Sandia National Laboratories. The TIVA (thermally-induced voltage alteration)/SEI (Seebeck Effect Imaging)...

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Sandia Labs’ Thunderbird Awards honor 21 local high school seniors for achievement in the face of hardships

May 4, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — With their mentors and supporters at their side, 21 graduating seniors from eleven Albuquerque Public Schools (APS), five alternative schools, and five outlying schools — Bernalillo, Rio Rancho, Los Lunas, Belen, and Moriarty — were honored with this year’s...

Categories: Awards

Patented integrated circuit measures time-of-flight to trillionths of a second

April 26, 2001 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Sandia National Laboratories engineer Ken Condreva has built a better stopwatch. It’s smaller than a dime, accurate to 125 picoseconds, and can be produced far more inexpensively than comparable devices.

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Solution to some of country’s energy woes might be little more than hot air

April 24, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The solution to some of the country’s energy woes might be little more than hot air.

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Intelligent nanostructures report on environment; “nanoskin” may aid in inhabiting Mars

April 19, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Intelligent nanostructures that report on their environment by changing color from blue to fluorescent red under mechanical, chemical, or thermal stress have been created by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico.

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Sandia and UNM collaborate to train more, better information technology professionals

April 18, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Training more and better information technology professionals in New Mexico is the goal of a new Institute for Object Technology (IOT) at the University of New Mexico. Initial sponsor Sandia National Laboratories is collaborating with UNM to ensure that the...

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Partners Unveil First Extreme Ultraviolet Chip-making Machine

April 11, 2001 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Industry and government officials today announced completion of the first full-scale prototype machine for making computer chips using extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light, a breakthrough that will lead to microprocessors that are tens of times faster than...

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Extreme Ultra Violet Lithography (EUVL) Milestone Celebration Background

April 11, 2001 • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories in California have joined efforts as a Virtual National Laboratory to develop technology that arose from research capabilities in the 1980s.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Two Sandia National Laboratories employees receive awards for work with small businesses

April 10, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Cynthia Schneeberger, Manager of Sandia National Laboratories’ Supplier Relations Department, has won two awards from the US Small Business Administration (SBA).

Categories: Awards

Inexpensive disposable fiber optics can relay real-time information about drilling process

April 10, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A new technique developed by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories using an inexpensive disposable fiber optics telemetry system to relay real-time information about the drilling process is capturing oil and gas industry attention.

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Standardized electronic invoicing tested at Sandia National Laboratories is now available to industry

April 4, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Although several outstanding electronic invoice solutions exist, a flexible standard for electronic invoicing that meets industry needs was not available until now. Rapid e-Invoice, the first XML (extensible markup language )-based standard for electronic...

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Sandia, Ardesta join forces to commercialize MEMS and microsystems

April 4, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories and the Ann Arbor, Mich.-based company Ardesta have joined forces through a new partnership agreement to transfer Labs-developed microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and microsystems technologies to start-up companies in the...

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World’s experts to discuss policy dilemmas at International Arms Control Conference

March 28, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Some 275 experts representing the United Nations, NATO, and more than 40 countries will gather in Albuquerque April 20-22 to discuss the threat of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons and the policies required to control them.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Sandia to release enhanced shock wave physics software

March 26, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The latest version of the widely used shock wave physics computer code, CTH, developed by Sandia National Laboratories, will soon be available to customers nationwide. The code simulates high-speed impact and penetration phenomena involving a variety of...

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New Distributed Information Systems Laboratory to be built at Sandia National Labs/California

March 23, 2001 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — A new facility to develop and deploy distributed information systems technologies for the nuclear weapons complex (NWC) is now in design and will be constructed at Sandia National Labs/California by 2003. Design of the new facility, called the Distributed...

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Sandia’s new Gamma Irradiation Facility can test microchips, satellites, and everything in between

March 13, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories this week plans to conduct the first tests at the lab’s new Gamma Irradiation Facility, officially welcoming the GIF into the lab’s family of experimental nuclear facilities.

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Almost 200 New Mexico small businesses apply for help from Sandia under new state-funded assistance program

March 7, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A seven-month-old Sandia National Laboratories program to help small New Mexico businesses solve pressing technical problems is off to a fast start, with more than 110 projects under way or completed. More than 190 businesses have applied for such help, and...

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Picky molecular traps snare problem chemicals from process streams, effluents

February 21, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Researchers studying ways to capture radioactive chemicals swimming in a sea of hazardous waste have created a new class of molecular cages that, like lobster traps, let certain species in while keeping others out.

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Magnetic field shocklessly shoots pellets 20 times faster than rifle bullet

February 21, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A magnetic field that accelerates pellets faster than anything except a nuclear explosion has been developed experimentally at the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories.

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Brave students to spin wafer coatings at zero G

February 21, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Braving almost certain stomach upset, Sandia National Laboratories student intern Jason Brown and three other chemical engineering students from the University of New Mexico will ride NASA’s wild-bronc-bucking KC-135A airplane — familiarly known as the...

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What may be world’s smallest mini-robot being developed at Sandia

January 31, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — What may be the world’s smallest robot — it “turns on a dime and parks on a nickel” — is being developed by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

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