MESA

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The race to build the world’s smallest atomic clock, again

August 29, 2023 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Yuan-Yu Jau is on a quest to build the world’s smallest atomic clock, a device that measures time with extreme accuracy. If successful, he and his team at Sandia National Laboratories will have made one smaller than a sugar cube. But he’s not the only one pushing...

Categories: Military / Defense

Topics: atomic clock, DARPA, GPS, MESA

World’s fastest burst-mode X-ray camera hits the road

March 13, 2023 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Nuclear reactions are fast. Really fast. Faster than billionths of a second. Your best shot at catching one is with a high-speed X-ray camera that can only be obtained from the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories. But these cameras could soon become more widely available. Sandia...

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

Topics: Entrepreneurial Separation of Transfer Technology program, fusion, imaging, MESA, microelectronics, sensors, small business, TRGR, X-ray

Sandia-developed solar cell technology reaches space

September 29, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Somewhere among the glitter of the night sky is a small satellite powered by innovative, next-generation solar cell technology developed at Sandia National Laboratories.[caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] Former Sandia National Laboratories s…

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

Topics: DragonSCALES, Entrepreneurial Separation of Transfer Technology program, ESTT, MEMS, MEPV, MESA, mPower, satellite, satellites, solar cells, solar glitter, solar power, tech transfer, technology transfer

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

Rare open-access quantum computer now operational

March 15, 2021, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A new Department of Energy open-access quantum computing testbed is ready for the public. Scientists from Indiana University recently became the first team to begin using Sandia National Laboratories’ Quantum Scientific Computing Open User Testbed, or QSCOUT. Quantum computers are poised to become major technological drivers over...

Categories: Computing, Physics

Topics: ion trap, MESA, quantum computing, qubits

National security chip plant gets an upgrade

October 3, 2019 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has completed phase one of an anticipated three-year upgrade at its plant responsible for making integrated circuits, similar to computer chips. The facility is now fully compatible with industry-standard, 8-inch silicon wafers — thin, round starting materials used for making chips. Previously, Sandia used...

Categories: Computing, Nuclear Weapons, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: integrated circuits, MESA, upgrades, wafer fabrication

Generating electrical power from waste heat

July 9, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Directly converting electrical power to heat is easy. It regularly happens in your toaster, that is, if you make toast regularly. The opposite, converting heat into electrical power, isn’t so easy. Researchers from Sandia National Laboratories have developed a tiny silicon-based device that can harness what was...

Categories: Nanotechnology, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, heat, infrared, MESA, Microsystems and Engineering Sciences Applications, power, radioisotope thermoelectric generator, silicon, silicon dioxide

Tiny rectangular chip with etch patterns next to a plasma shere.

Sandia light mixer generates 11 colors simultaneously

June 28, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A multicolor laser pointer you can use to change the color of the laser with a button click — similar to a multicolor ballpoint pen — is one step closer to reality thanks to a new tiny synthetic material made at Sandia National Laboratories. A flashy laser...

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

Topics: Center for Integrated Nanotechnology, gallium arsenide, MESA, metamaterials, National Security Photonic Center, optics, Photonics

Polina Vabishchevich and Igal Brener in a dark room with blue, green, and red laser light reflecting off of a table full of optical mirrors.

Three Sandia engineers recognized for contributions to advancing women in STEM

October 24, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Three Sandia National Laboratories engineers have been recognized by the Society of Women Engineers as part of its annual awards program for their support in the enrichment and advancement of women in engineering. Janet Williams won the Distinguished Service Award, which recognizes members who have made significant...

Categories: Awards, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: APS, ASME, diversity, fusion, inertial confinement fuison program, inertial confinement fusion, LDRD, MESA, microscale, Microsystems and Engineering Sciences Applications, nuclear weapons, Sandia, Society of Women Engineers, STEM, SWAN, SWE, women in STEM, z machine

MESA complex starts largest production series in its history

March 25, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has begun making silicon wafers for three nuclear weapon modernization programs, the largest production series in the history of its Microsystems and Engineering Sciences Applications complex. MESA’s silicon fab in October began producing base wafers for Application-Specific Integrated Circuits for the B61-12 Life Extension...

Categories: Nuclear Weapons

Topics: ASICs, fabs, MESA, nuclear weapon modernization, wafer fabrication

Watching neurons fire from a front-row seat

July 28, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — They are with us every moment of every day, controlling every action we make, from the breath we breathe to the words we speak, and yet there is still a lot we don’t know about the cells that make up our nervous systems. When things go awry...

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

Topics: brain, MESA, microscale, Microsystems and Engineering Sciences Applications, neural probe, neurons, Sandia National Laboratories

Modern-day cleanroom invented by Sandia physicist still used 50 years later

November 26, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — When Willis Whitfield invented the modern-day cleanroom 50 years ago, researchers and industrialists didn’t believe it at first. But within a few short years, $50 billion worth of laminar-flow cleanrooms were being built worldwide and the invention is used in hospitals, laboratories and manufacturing plants today. The...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: clean room, cleanroom, engineering, inventor, MESA, national laboratories, Sandia, Whitfield