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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

Sandia establishes collaborative research facility for low-temperature plasmas

December 20, 2019 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is setting up a collaborative facility to help researchers worldwide study low-temperature plasmas, the most pervasive state of matter in the universe. The 5-year, $5.5 million project, called the Sandia Low Temperature Plasma Research Facility, is sponsored by the Department of Energy’s Office of...

Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research, Chemistry, Energy / Environment / Water, Materials Science, Military / Defense, Physics, Science / Technology / Engineering, Space / Astronomy

Topics: arc welding, collaborations, femtoseconds, ionosphere, picoseconds, plasma, plasma lamps

Black hole models contradicted by hands-on tests at Sandia’s Z machine

August 28, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A long-standing but unproven assumption about the X-ray spectra of black holes in space has been contradicted by hands-on experiments performed at Sandia National Laboratories’ Z machine. Z, the most energetic laboratory X-ray source on Earth, can duplicate the X-rays surrounding black holes that otherwise can be watched only from a...

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

Topics: astrophysicists, black holes, plasma, Resonant Augur Assumption, stars, z machine, Z pulsed-power machine

Sandia physicist Jim Bailey wins major physics award for 10-year study of the sun

July 28, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — By testing bits of iron at the temperature of the sun, Sandia National Laboratories physicist Jim Bailey and his team have provided key data to improve the Standard Solar Model, widely used by astrophysicists to help model the behavior of stars. For this work, Bailey will receive...

Categories: Awards, Physics, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: astrophyisical, high energy density, iron, opacity, plasma, pulsed power, solar, stellar, sun, Z, z machine

World’s fastest multiframe digital X-ray camera created at Sandia

June 2, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An adversary who steps inside a boxer’s sense of rhythm may land a punch the boxer never saw coming. A similar problem faces physicists struggling to achieve laboratory-scale nuclear fusion: A rogue event occurring between successively monitored images may knock an otherwise promising experiment off-kilter without anyone...

Categories: Nanotechnology, Physics, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: CCD cameras, HED, high energy density, inertial confinement fusion, NIF, NRL, plasma, pulsed power, University of Rochester, UXI, X-ray imager, Z, Z-Beamlet

Sandia plasma-materials researcher wins DOE Early Career Award

May 10, 2016 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Sandia National Laboratories researcher Robert Kolasinski has received a $2.5 million, five-year Early Career Research Program award from the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science to support his work on how intense fusion plasmas interact with the interior surfaces of fusion reactors. Kolsinski’s research will develop...

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

Topics: California Institute of Technology, Early Career Research Program, fusion, fusion energy, fusion reactors, Office of Science, plasma

Sandia’s Z machine receives funding aimed at fusion energy

June 29, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A two-year, $3.8 million award has been received by Sandia National Laboratories and the University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) to hasten the day of low-cost, high-yield fusion reactions for energy purposes. High-yield means much more energy emerging from a fusion reaction than is put...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Physics, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: ARPA-E, laser, LLE, magLIF, plasma, pulsed power, University of Rochester, Z

Amplified light passes through the large tubes of Sandia National Laboratories’ Z-Beamlet laser, one of the most powerful in the world.

IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Society Merit Award honors Sandia radiation effects expert

July 17, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia radiation effects researcher Jim Schwank has won the 2014 IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society Merit Award, which recognizes outstanding technical contributions to the fields of nuclear and plasma sciences. “I feel highly honored,” said Schwank, who is the second active Sandia employee to win the...

Categories: Awards, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: ieee, nuclear, plasma, radiation, space radiation

Sandia researcher Mike Desjarlais wins 2014 IEEE Plasma Science and Applications Award

May 23, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The 2014 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Plasma Science and Applications Award has been won by Sandia National Laboratories researcher Mike Desjarlais. His work was cited for “pioneering contributions to the understanding of electrical and thermal transport properties, and [for] equations of state for materials...

Categories: Awards, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: density functional theory, National Ignition Campaign, plasma, warm dense matter, z machine, z-pinch physics

Plasmonic crystal alters to match light-frequency source

October 30, 2013 • A device like a photonic crystal, but smaller and tunable ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Gems are known for the beauty of the light that passes through them. But it is the fixed atomic arrangements of these crystals that determine which light frequencies are permitted passage. Now a Sandia-led team has created...

Categories: Homeland security, Materials Science, Military / Defense, Nanotechnology, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: crystal, metamaterials, photonic crystal, plasma, plasmonic