June 13, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Researchers and entrepreneurs will gather in Albuquerque June 27 for the second Southwest as a Region of Innovation conference, where sponsors will make their case for establishing the Southwest as the center of a new national microsystems industry cluster.
June 12, 2000 • LIVERMORE, CA. and BILLERICA, MA. -- The Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories/California is licensing its technology in a unique, emerging MEMS technology known as LIGA to photonic subsystem provider AXSUN Technologies.
June 6, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Researchers at the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories have developed the first 1.3-micron electrically pumped vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) grown on gallium arsenide. It promises to reduce the cost of high-speed fiber...
June 5, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Two technologies developed at the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories have been selected to receive Discover Awards for Technological Innovation by Discover magazine, the magazine's editors announced today.
May 23, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A recent Department of Energy (DOE) study headed by Sandia National Laboratories suggests that major power emergencies like Monday's statewide conservation alert in California might be averted if power companies adopt new command and control software that...
May 18, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- In the movie "The Matrix," malevolent but intelligent security agents -- personifications of computer programs able to learn -- defend an evil worldwide web.
May 17, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Researchers at the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories and the University of Kentucky are developing enabling technologies for a new thin-film, ultralight deployable mirror that may be the future of space telescopes and surveillance satellites.
May 11, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Elaine Raybourn, a member of the Advanced Concepts Group (ACG) think tank at the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories, is exploring new on-line communication methods that will allow her "to be in two places at once."
May 4, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Observed through a microscope, dried ink appears as a jumble of particles. Now an ink has been produced that, as it dries, can be seen under very powerful microscopes to self-assemble into orderly layers of very tiny caves -- actually, nanoscopic pores...
April 24, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- When a lake freezes over, how do trillions of randomly oriented water molecules know at almost the same time to align themselves into crystalline form? Similarly, when iron becomes magnetized, how do trillions of atoms know to align themselves almost...
April 20, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- In a Hollywood-style biological attack, Bruce Willis or, better yet, George Clooney would be expected to render a killer virus harmless in 90 minutes.
April 13, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Technology developed at the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories to remove toxins from groundwater contaminated by nuclear waste may offer clues about how to resolve a catastrophic environmental crisis in Bangladesh where arsenic-polluted...
March 31, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- The Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories will join forces early next year with one or more Native American tribes to test a new solar electricity generating system that will be the power source for a water pump.
March 30, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Government and business officials responsible for safeguarding their communities or companies against the threat of a terrorist attack now can visit a virtual information booth for advice on ways to improve security against terrorism and provide facilities...
March 26, 2000 • SAN FRANCISCO, CA. -- A powerful new portable chemical analysis device that fits in the palm of a hand is being developed by the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories and will be presented Sunday, March 26, at the annual meeting of the American Chemical Society.
March 23, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A "smart scalpel" mechanism intended to detect the presence of cancer cells as a surgeon cuts away a tumor obscured by blood, muscle and fat has been developed in prototype by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories.
March 17, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Some 275 experts representing the United Nations, NATO, and more than 40 countries will gather in Albuquerque April 14-16 to discuss the spread of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons and the technologies required to monitor and control them.
March 16, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- An innovative "natural" alternative to cleaning up uranium-contaminated sites is being studied by scientists at the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories as a way to replace costly and sometimes ineffective traditional techniques.
March 13, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A Department of Energy research satellite designed and built at Sandia National Laboratories was successfully placed into orbit early Sunday morning, March 12, by a Taurus rocket launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.
March 9, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Vandenberg Air Force Base officials today gave the green light for an early Sunday morning, March 12, launch of a Department of Energy research satellite designed and built at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico.
March 9, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Team Specialty Products (TSP), an engineering design and new product development company, will break ground for a new building March 16 at 10 a.m. in the Sandia Science and Technology Park, located just outside Kirtland Air Force Base's Eubank Gate. The...
March 8, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Scientists at the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories are researching ways to use a new semiconductor alloy, indium gallium arsenide nitride (InGaAsN), as a photovoltaic power source for space communications satellites and for lasers...
February 29, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- The Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories and Ford Motor Company have agreed to conduct cooperative technology research and development across a broad variety of areas including manufacturing, materials science, and electronics.