Science / Technology / Engineering

July 12, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A 10-foot-high, 13-foot-wide screen that makes high-definition television look as grainy as an old TV in a cheap motel has been unveiled by Sandia National Laboratories.

July 2, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has received the U.S. Department of Energy’s Small Business Special Emphasis Award. The award was presented at the second annual DOE Small Business Conference, “Excellence in Energy with Small Businesses,” in Las Vegas, Nev...

July 2, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have unveiled a wheeled police robot that makes many of the “how to” decisions on its own, freeing up its operator to make the more critical “what to do next” decisions during potentially dangerous bomb-disablement..

June 25, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — You might call it the “science of splat.”

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...

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...

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

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)...

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.

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

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.

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...

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...

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.

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.

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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.

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...

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.

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.

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...