Science / Technology / Engineering

December 11, 2000 • Albuquerque, N.M. — If you wanted to build your own micromachine — gear teeth as small as red blood cells, individual device as big as a grain of pollen — how would you even know what you wanted to draw, let alone write the code? And where would you get...

December 5, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories have released updated computer software that models the complex physical phenomena that occur as a nuclear power plant accident progresses through time.

November 10, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A lightweight, portable chemical vapor detection system developed by the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Sandia National Laboratories is in final preparation for the big test — a field test simulating a chemical release. The system is designed to identify...

October 31, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.—More powerful than an ordinary locomotive and expected to climb steep mountains without losing traction, Seraphim - a simpler, less expensive US alternative to the magnetically levitated (maglev) trains of Europe and Japan - is now funded for development at...

October 27, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A tiny bar that in appearance resembles cheesecloth has bent infrared beams with very little loss of light in laboratory experiments at the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories. The bar is fabricated from gallium arsenide.

October 17, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Hopping machines inspired by the clumsy jumping of grasshoppers may soon give robots unprecedented mobility for exploring other planets, gathering war-fighting intelligence, and assisting police during standoffs or surveillance operations.

October 17, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. The first ultra-violet (UV) solid-state microcavity laser has been demonstrated in prototype by scientists at the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories working with colleagues at Brown University.

October 5, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In a “bold and important move,” Sandia National Laboratories has spun off a private company, MEMX, Inc., to commercialize Labs-developed microsystems technology.

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...

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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...