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Nanotechnology experts at Sandia create first terahertz-speed polarization optical switch
September 14, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A Sandia National Laboratories-led team has for the first time used optics rather than electronics to switch a nanometer-thick thin film device from completely dark to completely transparent, or light, at a speed of trillionths of a second.The team led …
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Radiation analysis software makes emergency responders’ jobs quicker, easier
September 5, 2017 • InterSpec helps decision-makers determine source, type, amount of radiation in real time LIVERMORE, Calif. — When law enforcement officers and first responders arrive at an emergency involving radiation, they need a way to swiftly assess the situation to keep the public an…
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Ethan Chan, Alf Morales, and Will Johnson

Black hole models contradicted by hands-on tests at Sandia’s Z machine
August 28, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A long-standing but unproven assumption about the X-ray spectra of black holes in space has been contradicted by hands-on experiments performed at Sandia National Laboratories’ Z machine. Z, the most energetic laboratory X-ray source on Earth, can duplicate the X-rays surrounding black holes that otherwise can be watched only from a...
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World’s smallest neutrino detector finds big physics fingerprint
August 3, 2017 • Sandia part of COHERENT experiment to measure coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scatteringLIVERMORE, California — Sandia National Laboratories researchers have helped solve a mystery that has plagued physicists for 43 years. Using the world’s smallest neutrino detector, …
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David Reyna and Belkis Cabrera-Palmer

New Sandia fellowship named after first female director of nuclear security lab
July 24, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has established a new fellowship program, named after its immediate past director, Jill Hruby, in hopes of attracting and recruiting talented women in engineering and science fields who are interested in becoming technical l…
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Scintillating discovery at Sandia Labs
June 29, 2017 • Bright thinking leads to breakthrough in nuclear threat detection scienceLIVERMORE, Calif. — Taking inspiration from an unusual source, a Sandia National Laboratories team has dramatically improved the science of scintillators — objects that detect nuclear threats. Accor…
Categories: Homeland security, Materials Science, Nonproliferation, Science / Technology / Engineering
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Side-by-side comparison of scintillators made from trans-stilbene and organic glass.

Sandia researchers named IEEE fellows
June 27, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Two Sandia National Laboratories researchers have been named fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, known as IEEE. Bryan Oliver, senior manager of the Radiation Effects Sciences and Applications Department, was named for his contributions to the theory and simulation of intense particle beams and...
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Bryan Oliver

Finding a molecular needle in a haystack
June 26, 2017 • Sandia Labs creates better ‘fingerprints’ to detect elusive, valuable chemical compoundsLIVERMORE, Calif. — Imagine being able to see the entire Statue of Liberty and a small ant on its nose simultaneously. The drastic difference in size between the two objects would s…
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Bálint Sztáray and David Osborn

History of Sandia Labs rocketry told in award-winning film, ‘It Really Is Rocket Science!’
June 5, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The history of rocket testing and aerospace work at Sandia National Laboratories is the history of aero everything.“There was aeroheating and aeroballistics and aerodynamics and all things aero,” said Myra Buteau, a Sandia Labs video producer whose …
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Sandia recognizes top female high school students in math, science in northern California
May 16, 2017 • [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] Sandia National Laboratories researcher Marilyn F. Hawley, right, presents an award to a student from Manteca, California, while Sandia Business Development Manager Annie Garcia, center, announces the recipients of this year’s…
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26th annual Sandia Math and Science Awards

Trash into treasure: Sandia could help biofuel pay for itself with goods made from waste
May 4, 2017 • EMERYVILLE, Calif. — A recent discovery by Sandia National Laboratories researchers may unlock the potential of biofuel waste — and ultimately make biofuels competitive with petroleum.Fuel made from plants is much more expensive than petroleum, but one way to decrease th…
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Sandia National Laboratories researchers Matthew Mills, left, and Ken Sale, center, look on as researcher Amanda Kohler points toward a model of LigM, an enzyme whose structure they have solved. (Image by Dino Vournas).

Better living through pressure: functional nanomaterials made easy
April 18, 2017, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Using pressure instead of chemicals, a Sandia National Laboratories team has fabricated nanoparticles into nanowire-array structures similar to those that underlie the surfaces of touch-screens for sensors, computers, phones and TVs. The pressure-based fabrication process takes nanoseconds. Chemistry-based industrial techniques take hours. The process, called stress-induced fabrication,...
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Joshua Usher

Testing for Zika virus: there’s an app for that
March 20, 2017 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Add rapid, mobile testing for Zika and other viruses to the list of things that smartphone technology is making possible. Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed a smartphone-controlled, battery-operated diagnostic device that weighs …
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Zika box

Power partners: Sandia draws industry into quest for cheaper, cleaner electricity
March 16, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is working with three industry partners to commercialize a distributed power system that can produce cheaper, cleaner, more efficient electricity. The labs signed three-year Cooperative Research and Development Agreements with Peregrine Turbine Technologies of Wiscasset, Maine; Xdot Engineering and Analysis of Charlottesville, Virginia; and...
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Guiding Light: Sandia creates 3-D metasurfaces with optical possibilities
March 9, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Metamaterials don’t exist in nature, but their ability to make ultra-thin lenses and ultra-efficient cell phone antennas, bend light to keep satellites cooler and let photovoltaics absorb more energy mean they offer a world of possibilities. Formed by nanostructures that act as “atoms,” arranged on a substrate...
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Metamaterials

Sandia intern, mentor win chemical society award
February 24, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —Sandia National Laboratories student intern Julian A. Vigil and researcher Timothy N. Lambert captured a 2017 American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Inorganic Chemistry Award for Undergraduate Research. Vigil will receive a financial stipend and a plaque; his mentor Lambert will receive a plaque for permanent display at Sandia....
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Julian Vigil and Tim Lambert
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