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Sandia wins four R&D 100 Awards
June 22, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers — competing in an international pool of universities, corporations and government labs — captured three prestigious R&D 100 Awards in this year’s contest, and were cowinners of a fourth. R&D Magazine presents the awards each year to researchers whom its editors and independent...
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Dust-size dragonflies and microvalves make mark at annual MEMS student design contest
June 17, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A dragonfly as small as a dust mote, its four tiny wings beating like it had momentarily alit on a lily pad, and a highly sensitive microvalve were the big winners in this year’s student design contest for extraordinarily tiny devices at Sandia National Laboratories. The winners...
Categories: Awards, Materials Science, Operations / Budget, Science / Technology / Engineering
TTU Novel design

Z researcher Dan Sinars awarded $2.5 million DOE Early Career grant
May 25, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Pursuing a fruitful line of inquiry, Sandia National Laboratories researcher Dan Sinars has been awarded a $2.5 million, five-year  “Early Career Research Program” award for measuring fundamental instabilities in magnetically driven Z-pinch explosions.  Sinars’ team was the first to capture, in a series of 3-D images separated...
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Dan Sinars

Supercritical carbon dioxide Brayton Cycle turbines promise giant leap in thermal-to-electric conversion efficiency
March 4, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers are moving into the demonstration phase of a novel gas turbine system for power generation, with the promise that thermal-to-electric conversion efficiency will be increased to as much as 50 percent — an improvement of 50 percent for nuclear power stations equipped with...
Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering

Sandia Labs’ director re-dedicates Pete V. Domenici National Security Innovation Center
February 18, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In recognition of Sen. Pete Domenici’s decades of advocacy and support for the role the national laboratories play in protecting the nation’s security, officials at Sandia National Laboratories today re-dedicated the still relatively new Weapon Integration Facility building as the Pete V. Domenici National Security Innovation Center. With the...
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The Senator in front of the Pete V. Domenici National Security Innovation Center

Sandia MOU to assist MEMS students at University of Guadalajara
February 3, 2011 • Tiny microelectronic mechanical systems to improve Mexican economy, aid US defense  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories will help Mexican engineering students learn to design tiny microelectromechanical devices (MEMS), according to a memorandum of understanding between Sandia and the University of Guadalajara. The rationale for the agreement is that the...
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10 Mexican professors and three Sandia researchers at a SUMMit design course for MEMS devices held at Sandia in December, 2009. Ernest Garcia is third from right.

Registration open for Sandia-sponsored 4th International Conference on Integration of Renewable and Distributed Energy Resources
November 19, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Registration is open for the 4th International Conference on the Integration of Renewable and Distributed Energy Resources, the premier event for technical discussion of electric integration of new energy resources. Jointly sponsored by Sandia National Laboratories, the U.S. Department of Energy, Natural Resources Canada, Public Service Company...
Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Materials Science, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering

Nanoscopic particles resist full encapsulation, Sandia simulations show
October 11, 2010 • Sandia researcher Matt Lane stands before computer simulations of 2-nm. gold particles too small to measure experimentally. The particles aggregate to produce cigar-shaped objects that prefer to sit at the water’s surface. Red represents oxygen, blue  carbon, white hydrogen, yellow the sulfur coating. The gold particles are  not modeled directly....
Categories: Nanotechnology, Science / Technology / Engineering

Sandia National Laboratories helping to safeguard world’s dangerous biological agents
September 2, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Safeguarding the world’s most dangerous biological agents has been a top priority for a dedicated group of Sandia scientists for more than a decade, and now, this team is training laboratory leaders from around the world to secure deadly agents such as anth...
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Sandia to play major role in DOE-funded simulation of “virtual” nuclear reactor
June 14, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories computational scientists will lead two of five technical areas in a U.S. Department of Energy effort to create a “virtual” nuclear reactor, to be headquartered at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). This state-of-the-art simulator will use advanced capabilities of the world’s most powerful computers...
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Breaking the logjam: improving data download from outer space
May 18, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Satellite systems in space keyed to detect nuclear events and environmental gasses currently face a kind of data logjam because their increasingly powerful sensors produce more information than their available bandwidth can easily transmit. Experiments conducted by Sandia National Laboratories at the International Space Station preliminarily indicate...
Categories: Computing, Science / Technology / Engineering

Biofuel combustion chemistry more complex than petroleum-based fuels, say Sandia and Lawrence Livermore researchers
May 12, 2010 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Understanding the key elements of biofuel combustion is an important step toward insightful selection of next-generation alternative fuels. And that’s exactly what researchers at Sandia and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories are doing. The journ…
Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering
Aspects of biofuel combustion chemistry cover

Sandia National Laboratories leads reliability workshop for growing field of photovoltaic systems integration
May 11, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is using its expertise and long history in photovoltaic (PV) research and development to accelerate the adoption of reliability tools within the growing industry of PV power gen...
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Jennifer Granata and Michael Quintana examine a photovoltaic solar panel at Sandia National Laboratories.

City of Pittsburgh honors Sandia for solar work
May 5, 2010 • Albuquerque, N.M. — The city of Pittsburgh has honored solar researchers from Sandia National Laboratories for training city staff to install and maintain solar thermal and photovoltaic panels on city facilities. The formal proclamation, signed by Mayor Luke Ravenstahl, recognizes the Sandia researchers “who braved sleet, snow, ice, and frigid...
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Powering tribal lands: Sandia researcher to discuss off-grid, green technologies for rural areas at law seminar
April 30, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandra Begay-Campbell, leader of Sandia’s Tribal Renewable Energy Program and member of the Navajo Nation, will present “The Potential for Tribal Energy Resource Development in the Southwest” at the Tribal Energy in the Southwest Conference May 3-…
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Sandra Begay-Campbell stands in front of Window Rock with a solar panel.

MTI satellite continues to serve after 10 years in orbit
April 19, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – For engineers and scientists at Sandia, the evening of Friday, March 12, marked a proud moment in exceptional service to the nation. Hundreds of miles above the Earth, the Multispectral Thermal Imager satellite reached its 10th anniversary of service as it completed its 55,000th orbit — far...
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Brian Post stands under an antenna at the ground station at Sandia National Labs during the MTI satellite’s 55,000th orbit (photo by Randy Montoya).

New Mexico Small Business Assistance Program helps 320 small businesses in 2009
April 5, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The New Mexico Small Business Assistance Program (NMSBA) helped 320 companies in 25 counties in 2009 to solve technical challenges, including creating high-speed video of an exploding frozen pipe and explaining how silver-coated bandages speed healing. A partnership of Sandia National Laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratory and...
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Sandia researchers awarded 73 million supercomputing simulation hours by DOE INCITE program
February 23, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Three computationally based projects proposed by Sandia National Laboratories researchers have been awarded 73 million of 1.6 billion supercomputing processor hours offered by the Department of Energy’s INCITE program to advance cutting-edge work. Another Sandia researcher is participating in a Los Alamos National Laboratory-led proposal that was...
Categories: Awards, Computing, Operations / Budget, Science / Technology / Engineering
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