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Sandia materials model wins R&D 100 award

September 27, 2000 • LIVERMORE, CA — A research group led by the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories has won an R&D 100 award for innovative technology from R&D Magazine. The team created materials modeling software to optimize design of automotive parts and reduce waste in heat...

Categories: Awards

BREAKTHROUGH — Three members of the team that won an R&D 100 award for technological innovation at Sandia this year, (from left to right) Doug Bammann, Mark Horstemeyer and Mike Chiesa, display a control arm from a Cadillac steering system, a part designed with their winning mechanical-property code. This potentially revolutionary code allowed the part to be designed with a nearly 30 percent weight savings, and accurately predicted where the part would break during mechanical testing.

Sandia to pressurize scale model of nuclear reactor containment vessel until it fails

September 18, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Next week researchers at the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories will “test to failure” a structure that took three years to build.

Categories: Nuclear Weapons

Researchers map cracks on the surface of a 70-ft.-high prestressed concrete containment vessel (PCCV) in preparation for a test, during which the structure will be subjected to increasing gas pressure until it fails. The PCCV, built during the last three years at a remote Sandia test area, is a 1/4-scale model of a containment vessel at an operating nuclear power plant in Japan.

Major issue impeding successful magnetic confinement fusion resolved by joint Sandia/General Atomics/UC-San Diego Research

September 13, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A research team from the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Sandia National Laboratories, General Atomics and the University of California at San Diego has resolved one of many issues impeding successful magnetic confinement fusion. The team discovered a way to...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

EROSION MEASUREMENT — Sandia researcher Bill Wampler places a graphite sample that was exposed to divertor plasma into a chamber for ion-beam analysis to measure the erosion.

Method receives thumbs up from industry

September 13, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A new way to safely, simply and effectively connect electricity-producing photovoltaic (PV) solar systems to utility company power grids has been developed by the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories. Already several manufacturers have...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water

NEW CONTROL METHOD — The new technology developed by Sandia researchers will make it more attractive for people to use photovoltaics and other forms of alternate energy because they can be more easily connected to the electric grid.

Antarctica, Sandia’s ‘garage-built’ supercomputer, may become 20th fastest in world

September 6, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The latest version of CplantTM Antarctica, the upwardly mobile computer at Sandia, is expected by researchers to become the 20th fastest in the world after integrating, by early fall, 1,300 off-the-shelf computers recently arrived from Compaq Computer...

Categories: Computing

NOT A MAGIC LANTERN, BUT CLOSE — Ron Brightwell (9223), examines the motherboard of one of Cplant's computers. The board is out of a Digital personal workstation 500A. Digital is now owned by Compaq Computer Corp.

Citizens believe world is more dangerous today than during Cold War

September 5, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Believing the world is a more dangerous place than it was during the Cold War, the US public in a recent survey said it believes nuclear weapons continue to help maintain national security and supports maintaining the quality of the stockpile. At the same...

Categories: Nuclear Weapons

Sandia robotic assembly software licensed to Ultramax

August 30, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A software tool developed at the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories that automatically translates computer designs of complex products into assembly plans for use on the factory floor has been licensed to Ultramax Corporation of Cincinnati...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Caught in the grip of a crushing magnetic force:

August 30, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The physical pressures of rapidly accelerating a jet plane or fast car, or diving several atmospheres beneath the sea’s surface, test human toughness.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

MY BABY — With tender care, Sandia researcher Clint Hall examines one of his group's ICE experiments that created a material response curve for lithium fluoride.

Chem-bio decontamination formulation licensed to EnviroFoam

August 29, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories today announced that its formulation for the rapid decontamination of chemical and biological warfare agents has been licensed to EnviroFoam Technologies Inc. of Draper, Utah.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Tool is miniaturized version of traditional collector

August 28, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A chemical sampling device smaller than the tip of a fingernail promises big results for detecting and analyzing trace chemicals.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

TINY CHEMICAL SAMPLING DEVICE — Sandia researcher Ron Manginell examines a superminiaturized preconcentrator used to collect sample gases for analysis.

New approach promises to shed light about how copper corrodes

August 3, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In a new approach to studying atmospheric corrosion on copper, researchers at the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories are putting multiple corrosion experiments on a single silicon wafer in a type of micro-laboratory.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

NEW APPROACH — Sandia researchers Charles Barbour, left, and Jeff Braithwaite prepare a combinatorial corrosion experiment on a single silicon wafer. The new experimental method promises to shed light on how and why copper corrodes in atmospheric environments.

SBA awards Sandia its Dwight Eisenhower Award for Excellence

July 28, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) has presented Sandia with its Dwight D. Eisenhower Award for Excellence (Research and Development category) at the 33rd Annual Joint Industry/SBA Procurement Conference/Business Opportunity Expo held in Washington..

Categories: Awards

Keep telling yourself: “The Red Team is my friend…”

July 24, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Over the past two years, a group at Sandia National Laboratories known informally as the Red Team has, at customer invitation, either successfully invaded or devised successful mock attacks on 35 out of 35 information systems at various sites, along with...

Categories: Computing

Comin’ at you — Sandia’s Information Design Assurance Red Team, good guys playing bad guys, seeks out weaknesses in computer systems.

Navajo Tribal Utility Authority brings solar electricity to homes in remote areas

July 13, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A new solar power initiative of the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority (NTUA) is bringing electricity to the homes of people living in remote areas of the reservation. The Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories provides technical support.

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water

Summer workshop on school safety draws concerned educators to Dallas July 26-28

July 13, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Theft, vandalism, drugs, and violence on U.S. school campuses have principals, parents, and law enforcement officials wondering what they can do to make their schools safer for students during the coming school year.

Categories: Community / Education

Sandia chem-bio decontamination foam licensed to Modec

July 2, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.— Sandia National Laboratories today announced that its foam for the rapid decontamination of chemical and biological warfare agents has been licensed to Modec Inc., a Denver company specializing in mass-casualty response systems for weapons of mass destruction.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

DOE satellite begins research mission

June 14, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Sandia National Laboratories today announced that the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Multispectral Thermal Imager (MTI) satellite has completed on-orbit checkout and is ready to begin its research and development mission.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

During its three-month checkout period, the MTI satellite collected ground images of a number of U.S. sites. Above is a view of the interchange of U.S. Interstates 25 and 40 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Click here for additional downloadable MTI images. Hard copy prints are available to members of the news media by calling Sandia's Media Relations Office at 505-844-5199.

Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Multispectral Thermal Imager (MTI) Image Gallery

June 14, 2000 • Media are welcome to download and use these images.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Interchange of U.S. Interstates 25 and 40 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Second Southwest as a Region of Innovation conference to focus on microsystems cluster

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.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

MEMS technology licensed by Sandia National Labs to AXSUN Technologies

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.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Alignment structures, less than a 10th of an inch in size in this optical module, make use of Sandia National Laboratories' expertise in the LIGA microfabrication process. This photonic subsystem, by Sandia's licensing partner Axsun Technologies of Billerica, Mass., sits on an electronic assembly that occupies about 60 percent of the area of a business card (2.5 inches long x 1.7 inches wide).

CRADA with Cielo Communications makes development possible

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...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

CRYSTAL GROWTH -- Sandia researcher John Klem stands next to the molecular beam epitaxy system used to grow the crystal structure of the 1.3-micron communications vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL).

Two Sandia inventions named among the year’s best

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.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

DECON FOAM -- Sandia scientist Maher Tadros displays his Discover Award-winning decontaminating foam for neutralizing chemical and biological agents.

Sandia’s tiny canals on chips could expand uses for tomorrow’s ‘microfluidic’ devices

May 25, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- You could say these chips have ridges.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Sandia researchers Carol Ashby (foreground) and Carolyn Matzke prepare to put a wafer sample into a high-density plasma chamber used to deposit thin films on wafers. At the center of the wafer is a thumbnail-sized chip laden with the makings of tiny fluidic canals.

Summer heat spells lights out, but new power company software might keep nation’s power on

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...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water

Record heat waves might cause power outages this summer, officials warn, but new software might help avert them in the future

Could have stopped the I-Love-You virus

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.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Agents in a collective communicate over secured links on the Internet or an intranet. Malicious agents (with horns) are detected and cut off from the collective. Properly authenticated data is allowed into the collective, but bad information is rejected.

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