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World’s smallest, best acoustic amplifier emerges from 50-year-old hypothesis

June 2, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories have built the world’s smallest and best acoustic amplifier. And they did it using a concept that was all but abandoned for almost 50 years. According to a paper published May 13 in Nature Communications, the device is more than 10 times...

Categories: Nanotechnology, Physics, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: acoustic, acoustoelectric, heterogeneous integration, MESA, radiofrequency, signal processing

Largest aerospace society names Sandia researcher ‘Engineer of the Year’

June 1, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, NM — Humberto “Tito” Silva III, a Sandia National Laboratories researcher, has been named Engineer of the Year by the world’s largest aerospace technical society, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Selected by a committee of his peers, Silva was cited for improving failure-rate predictions of aerospace flight...

Categories: Computing, Science / Technology / Engineering, Space / Astronomy

Topics: aerospace, AIAA, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, computer simulation, engineer of the year, failure rate

Experimental Impact Mechanics Lab at Sandia bars none

May 25, 2021, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — There’s a tiny hidden gem at Sandia National Laboratories that tests the strength and evaluates the impact properties of any solid natural or manmade material on the planet. From its humble beginnings as a small storage room, mechanical engineer Bo Song has built a singular Experimental Impact...

Categories: Materials Science, Military / Defense, Nonproliferation, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: Drop-Hopkinson bar, global security, Hopkinson bar, impact mechanics, Kolsky bar, materials performance, materials science, materials testing, mechanical shock testing, national security, test facility

After 40 years, Sandia’s Combustion Research Facility still driving toward the future

May 18, 2021 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — The weather on March 6, 1981, was nothing too remarkable for the San Francisco Bay Area — a little drizzle with temperatures in the 50s and fairly calm wind. The remarkable event that day was taking place on Sandia National Laboratories’ California campus, but even those who...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: Chemical Kinetics, combustion, Combustion Research Facility, CRF, ducted fuel injection, energy, Ion imaging, Rapid Reduction of Nitrogen Oxides

Simulating sneezes and coughs to show how COVID-19 spreads

May 11, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Two groups of researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have published papers on the droplets of liquid sprayed by coughs or sneezes and how far they can travel under different conditions. Both teams used Sandia’s decades of experience with advanced computer simulations studying how liquids and gases move...

Categories: Computing, Coronavirus, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: computer modeling and simulation, COVID-19, fluid dynamics, modeling, stockpile stewardship

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Reusable respirator could ease COVID-19 medical mask shortages

April 1, 2021, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Many medical professionals and other essential, front-line workers have struggled for the past year with persistent shortages of N95 masks. Soon, they might get relief from a Sandia National Laboratories invention — a comfortable, reusable, sterilizable respirator that could ease demand during current or future health crises....

Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research, Coronavirus, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: aerosol science, COVID-19, mask, n95, pandemic, respirator

Forbes magazine again tags Sandia Labs as top large employer

March 29, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories again has been recognized by Forbes as one of the 500 Best Large Employers 2021. Sandia also won the distinction in 2017 and again in 2019, shortly after garnering a separate award as one of the magazine’s top workplaces f…

Categories: HR / Personnel, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: awards, business

Catching energy-exploration caused earthquakes before they happen

March 10, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Geoscientists at Sandia National Laboratories used 3D-printed rocks and an advanced, large-scale computer model of past earthquakes to understand and prevent earthquakes triggered by energy exploration. Injecting water underground after unconventional oil and gas extraction, commonly known as fracking, geothermal energy stimulation and carbon dioxide sequestration all...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: 3-D printing, earthquakes, energy exploration, Geoscience, geoscience modeling, induced seismicity

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Thin explosive films provide snapshot of how detonations start

March 4, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Using thin films — no more than a few pieces of notebook paper thick — of a common explosive chemical, researchers from Sandia National Laboratories studied how small-scale explosions start and grow. Sandia is the only lab in the U.S. that can make such detonatable thin films....

Categories: Computing, Materials Science, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: basic explosive science, computer modeling and simulation, explosives, explosives research, thin films

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Black engineer awards expand Sandia Labs spotlight

March 3, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Ten Sandia National Laboratories engineers received Black Engineer of the Year Awards, including Most Promising Scientist, Modern Technology Leaders and Science Spectrum Trailblazers. Honorees include Sandia systems, chemical, computer, electrical, petroleum, manufacturing and mechanical engineers who excel in their respective fields, powering innovation while flexing their technological...

Categories: Awards, Chemistry, Computing, Cybersecurity, Materials Science, Military / Defense, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: awards, Black Engineer of the Year, diversity, diversity and inclusion, engineering

Airplanes to cellphones: New equipment finds the flaws in everything

February 17, 2021 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Tim Briggs has built a career at Sandia National Laboratories tearing and breaking things apart with his team of collaborators. Now, he’s developed a fracture-testing tool that could help make everything from aircraft structural frames to cellphones stronger. Briggs has filed a patent for a device associated...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: fracture, fracture testing, materials, materials testing

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Tread tester

February 1, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Simulating how a tire’s tread, rubber and size respond to a road’s corners, angles and hills, Sandia National Laboratories and The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. have developed a virtual means of showing a tire’s performance before the first prototypes are ever built. Computer simulations test a...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: computer simulation, Cooperative Research and Development Agreement, CRADA, Flat Trac, Goodyear, modeling, tires, vitual

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Giving campaigns at Sandia shine during pandemic year

January 25, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories employees came together in a big way in 2020, contributing $4.8 million to the annual Sandia Gives campaign, which benefits United Way of Central New Mexico, United Way of the Bay Area and other nonprofits, increasing donations by $324,000 over 2019. A booster from...

Categories: Community / Education, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: charitable giving, community, donations, fundraisers, volunteers

Sandia nuclear physicist selected fellow of AAAS

January 13, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Susan Seestrom, associate laboratories director for advanced science and technology and chief research officer at Sandia National Laboratories, has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The physicist was cited “for her pathbreaking work in nuclear physics, especially using ultra cold...

Categories: Awards, Physics, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: AAAS Fellow, deuterium, LDRD, neutrons, ultracold

Advanced materials in a snap

January 5, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — If everything moved 40,000 times faster, you could eat a fresh tomato three minutes after planting a seed. You could fly from New York to L.A. in half a second. And you’d have waited in line at airport security for that flight for 30 milliseconds. Thanks to...

Categories: Computing, Materials Science, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: machine learning, materials science, optics

Sandia to put nuclear waste storage canisters to the test

December 9, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is outfitting three 22.5-ton, 16.5-feet-long stainless-steel storage canisters with heaters and instrumentation to simulate nuclear waste so researchers can study their durability. The three canisters, which arrived in mid-November and have never contained any nuclear materials, will be used to study how much salt...

Categories: Chemistry, Energy / Environment / Water, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: chloride-induced stress corrosion cracking, corrosion, dry storage canister, dry storage cask, Nuclear energy, nuclear waste, salt, spent fuel

Materials developed at Sandia help extinguish solar panel fires before they ignite

November 19, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — As solar panels become popular and their voltages increase, there is a need to have built-in capabilities to extinguish fires caused by arc-faults, which are high-power discharges of electricity that can create explosions or flash events due to damaged …

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: arc-fault generator, arc-fault prevention, arc-faults, Guardian Sensors, in-line connectors, Laboratory Directed Research and Development, LDRD, New Mexico Small Business Assistance Program, NMSBA

Sandia secures six regional technology transfer awards

November 18, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — For responding with innovative solutions during the pandemic, developing solar cell and hydrogen research technology, and creatively working with companies, Sandia National Laboratories won six prestigious regional 2020 Federal Laboratory Consortium awa…

Categories: Awards, Coronavirus, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: BayoTech, Cooperative Research and Development Agreement, coronavirus, COVID-19, CRADA, DragonSCALES, ducted fuel injection, Federal Laboratory Consortium, flc, FLC Awards, intellectual property, IP, licensing, mPower, New Mexico Small Business Assistance Program, NMSBA, Rapid Technology Deployment Program

Students of nuclear security have a problem. Here’s how to help them.

November 12, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Radioactive materials are attractive targets to thieves and other bad actors. These are rare finds, valuable on the black market and relatively easy to weaponize. New security professionals rarely learn practical skills for protecting these targets until they are on the job at nuclear power plants, research...

Categories: Homeland security, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: education, nuclear security, University of New Mexico

Mechanical engineer at Sandia named Asian American Engineer of the Year

November 10, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories mechanical engineer Bo Song has been recognized as an Asian American Engineer of the Year by the national DiscoverE Program, which honors outstanding Asian American professionals in science and engineering for their technical achievements, leadership and public service. “This is a big honor for...

Categories: Awards, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: asian american engineer, diversity, engineers, impact mechanics, mechanical engineering

Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers names Sandia Labs Organization of the Year

October 29, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has been named 2020 Organization of the Year in the government category by the Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers. The award, presented during the society’s virtual conference this month, recognizes organizations with a longstanding commitment to cultural diversity and inclusion in the workplace....

Categories: Awards, Computing, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: awards, community, computer science, diversity, diversity and inclusion, engineer, Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers, STEM

Record neutron numbers at Sandia Labs’ Z machine fusion experiments

October 27, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.— A relatively new method to control nuclear fusion that combines a massive jolt of electricity with strong magnetic fields and a powerful laser beam has achieved its own record output of neutrons — a key standard by which fusion efforts are judged — at Sandia National Laboratories’ Z...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Military / Defense, Nuclear Weapons, Physics, Science / Technology / Engineering, Space / Astronomy

Topics: ;high yield, break-even, energy, fusion, laser, magLIF, magnetic, plasma, Z

Hispanic organization honors nuclear waste management leader, cyber assurance architect

October 15, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Two experts at Sandia National Laboratories have been honored for their achievements and leadership as top engineers and scientists from the Hispanic community. Evaristo “Tito” Bonano, nuclear energy fuel cycle senior manager, and cyber assurance architect Angela “Ang” Rivas were recognized at the 32nd annual Hispanic Engineer...

Categories: Awards, Energy / Environment / Water, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: diversity, HENAAC, Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Conference, nuclear waste, nuclear waste management, software security, STEM

Machine-learning technique from Sandia Labs could improve fusion energy outputs

October 12, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Machine-learning techniques, best known for teaching self-driving cars to stop at red lights, may soon help researchers around the world improve their control over the most complicated reaction known to science: nuclear fusion. Fusion reactions are typically hydrogen atoms heated to form a gaseous cloud called a...

Categories: Climate Change, Computing, Energy / Environment / Water, Military / Defense, Physics, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: clean energy, fusion, fusion reactors, machine learning

Successful crash test meets major milestone for nuclear deterrence program

October 8, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A full-scale crash test involving a semitruck impacting the side of the first prototype of a new weapons transporter successfully took place at Sandia National Laboratories this summer. Using the labs’ sled track, rockets propelled the semitractor-trailer at highway speeds into the prototype, an over-the-road Mobile Guardian...

Categories: Coronavirus, Homeland security, Nuclear Weapons, Science / Technology / Engineering, Transportation

Topics: coronavirus, COVID-19, crash test, MGT, mobile guardian transporter, National Nuclear Security Administration, NNSA, Office of Secure Transportation, P1, sled track

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