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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

Primary Standards Laboratory: Sandia’s the word for precision measurements, calibrations

November 15, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — You probably never gave roundness a thought. But when it’s crucial that something be really round, federal labs and agencies can turn to the Department of Energy’s Primary Standards Laboratory (PSL), operated by Sandia. The PSL is often the last word on measurements, particularly in the world...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: DOE, nano, national laboratories, Primary Standards Laboratory, Sandia

Solar test facility upgrades complete, lead to better capabilities at Sandia for power industry

November 13, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – A recent overhaul of the Department of Energy’s National Solar Thermal Test Facility, operated by Sandia National Laboratories, is dramatically improving researchers’ ability to understand and use concentrating solar power. The $17.8 million upgrade to the NSTTF adds state-of-the-art test capabilities, and the resulting research is expected...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy

Topics: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, concentrating solar power, Department of Energy, DOE, molten salt, national laboratories, NSTTF, Sandia, solar

Northrop Grumman, GE partnerships tap wide range of Sandia Labs expertise

November 5, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories has signed a pair of cooperative research and development agreements (CRADAs) that could broadly add to the Labs’ research into combustion, defense, energy and nuclear security. The umbrella CRADAs, which enable Sandia and its partners to pursue multiple projects in a variety of categories,...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Homeland security, Military / Defense, Nuclear Weapons, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, combustion, CRADA, defense, economic development, energy, national laboratories, national labs, nuclear, partnership, research, Sandia, security, tech transfer, technology

Four technology transfer awards go to Sandia Labs

October 22, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories has won four awards from the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) for Sandia’s efforts to develop and commercialize innovative technologies. The FLC’s Far West/Mid-Continent regional awards recognized Sandia’s technology transfer work with crystalline silico-titanates (CSTs), biomimetic membranes, the i-Gate Innovation Hub and DAKOTA software. “It...

Categories: Awards, Chemistry, Computing, Energy / Environment / Water, Nanotechnology, Operations / Budget, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: awards, business, chemistry, computer, computing, economic development, economic impact, energy, nanomaterials, national laboratories, national labs, research, Sandia, small business, tech transfer, technology, water

National Hispanic engineering organization names Sandia manager Engineer of the Year

October 18, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M — A radar systems manager at Sandia National Laboratories who is committed to encouraging youths to pursue science and technology careers has been named 2012 Engineer of the Year by the Hispanic Engineering National Achievement Awards Conference (HENAAC). Steve Castillo, manager of Sandia’s Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Systems...

Categories: Awards, Military / Defense, Operations / Budget

Topics: HENAAC, Hispanic, national laboratories, Sandia

Sandia shows monitoring brain activity during study can help predict test performance

September 10, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Research at Sandia National Laboratories has shown that it’s possible to predict how well people will remember information by monitoring their brain activity while they study. A team under Laura Matzen of Sandia’s cognitive systems group was the first to demonstrate predictions based on the results of...

Categories: Biology, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: brain, cognitive, memory research, national laboratories, Sandia, women in STEM

First Sandia tech showcase shines a light on research, business

September 5, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories’ cutting-edge research and technology will be on display next week at a daylong event. Tips on intellectual property issues and on how to do business with the Labs through licensing, partnership agreements, procurement and economic development programs also will be featured at the first...

Categories: Operations / Budget, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, cybersecurity, energy, nanomaterials, national laboratories, national labs, Sandia, showcase, small business, tech transfer, technology, water

Sandia Science & Technology Park fuels economy with jobs, tax revenue, spending

August 28, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The $1.89 billion in economic activity generated by the Sandia Science & Technology Park (SS&TP) since it was established in 1998 has produced more than $73 million in tax revenue for the state of New Mexico and $10.4 million for the city of Albuquerque, according to a...

Categories: Awards, Operations / Budget, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, community, economic development, economic impact, jobs, national laboratories, national labs, research parks, Sandia, small business, tech transfer

Sandia explosives legend Paul Cooper hangs up his teaching hat

August 27, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Paul Cooper, one of the world’s foremost explosives experts, retired from Sandia National Laboratories more than a decade ago but continued his labor of love, teaching a new generation of engineers everything they needed to know about blowing things up. Cooper taught explosives safety and technology to...

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

Topics: branch davidians, education, engineers, expert, explosives, materials science, national laboratories, oklahoma city, Sandia, training, twa 800, uss iowa

Sandia experts, students explore cyber issues during weeklong summer institute

August 24, 2012 • LIVERMORE, Calif.— Top graduate students pursuing careers in cybersecurity worked alongside Sandia and other prominent cybersecurity experts in a weeklong summer institute sponsored by Sandia National Laboratories at the Livermore Valley Open Campus. Cyber Security Technology, Policy, Law, and Planning for an Uncertain Future, which followed last year’s institute on...

Categories: Community / Education, Computing, Conferences / Symposia

Topics: cybersecurity, national laboratories, Sandia

Sandia Science & Technology Park to host news conference on economic impact results

August 23, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia Science & Technology Park (SS&TP) will host a news conference Tuesday to announce the results of an economic impact report by the Mid-Region Council of Governments (MRCOG). The findings will be reported by the city of Albuquerque, represented by Chief Administrative Officer Rob Perry, and Bernalillo...

Categories: Awards, Operations / Budget, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, economic impact, national laboratories, research parks, Sandia

Alaskan North Slope climate: hard data from a hard place

August 13, 2012 • Researchers examine clouds (from both sides now) and the structure of the atmosphere BARROW, Alaska — Sandia National Laboratories’ researcher Mark Ivey and I (science writer Neal Singer) are standing on the tundra at an outpost of science at the northernmost point of the North American continent. We are five miles northeast...

Categories: Biology, Chemistry, Energy / Environment / Water, Science / Technology / Engineering, Space / Astronomy

Topics: arctic, climate change, clouds, national laboratories, Sandia, weather balloon

Sandia Labs names new VP of Business Operations/CFO

August 7, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Bonnie Apodaca is the new vice president of Business Operations and chief financial officer at Sandia National Laboratories. “I am confident that her contributions will move Sandia forward, improve our business efficiencies and ensure continued excellence in mission support,” said Kim Sawyer, Sandia’s deputy laboratories director and...

Categories: Operations / Budget

Topics: appointment, business, cfo, executive, national laboratories, national labs, Sandia, vp

Increased productivity, not less energy use, results from more efficient lighting

August 6, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Two researchers have reprised in the journal Energy Policy their groundbreaking finding that improvements in lighting — from candles to gas lamps to electric bulbs — historically have led to increased light consumption rather than lower overall energy use by society. In an article in the journal...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Military / Defense, Operations / Budget, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: economy, energy, laser diode, LED, light, national laboratories, productivity, Sandia

Sandia researcher Jeff Tsao examines the set-up used to test diode lasers as an alternative to LED lighting. Skeptics felt laser light would be too harsh to be acceptable. Research by Tsao and colleagues suggests the skeptics were wrong.

Fiery research: Sandia computers model rocket fuel fires

July 31, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Walt Gill of Sandia National Laboratories’ Fire & Aerosol Sciences Department calls it a pancake — a disk more than a foot in diameter covered with what looks like the debris you’d scrape off a particularly messy barbecue grill. It’s actually a crunchy, baked-on mixture of aluminum,...

Categories: Chemistry, Computing

Topics: chemistry, computing, NASA, national laboratories, propellant fires, Sandia

Predictions by climate models are flawed, says invited speaker at Sandia

July 25, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Richard Lindzen, a global warming skeptic, told about 70 Sandia researchers in June that too much is being made of climate change by researchers seeking government funding. He said their data and their methods did not support their claims. “Despite concerns over...

Categories: Biology, Chemistry, Computing, Energy / Environment / Water, Homeland security, Military / Defense, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: climate, global warming, national laboratories, Sandia

National workshop brings career development help to Sandia postdocs, student interns

July 17, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The American Chemical Society’s ACS on Campus is bringing career development workshops for scientists and engineers to Sandia National Laboratories’ postdoctoral fellows and interns, only the second time the program has come to a national laboratory. ACS on Campus will kick off the evening of July 19...

Categories: Chemistry, Conferences / Symposia, Media advisories, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: American Chemical Society, chemistry, national laboratories, Sandia, Science Cafe, science workshops

Labs small-business assistance program named Manufacturing Advocate of the Year

July 13, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The New Mexico Small Business Assistance (NMSBA) Program has received the 2012 Manufacturing Advocate of the Year award from the Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) under the U.S. Department of Commerce. The MEP award recognized the program’s “commitment to the business growth and transformation of U.S.-based manufacturing through...

Categories: Awards, Operations / Budget, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: awards, collaboration, national laboratories, national labs, partnerships, Sandia, small business, tech transfer, technology

Sandia SolarTrak technology helps arrays worldwide follow the sun

July 3, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – When Alex Maish was a researcher at Sandia National Laboratories in the early 1980s, he had a pet project, a low-cost, high-precision way to continuously move solar panels into the best possible position to catch sunlight and generate energy. By the early 1990s the technology was ready...

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

Topics: business, energy, national laboratories, national labs, power, renewable, research, Sandia, small business, solar, tech transfer, technology, tracking

Sandia engineer named DOE Energy Pioneer

July 2, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The U.S. Department of Energy named Chris Evans an Energy Pioneer for his work in identifying and implementing energy conservation practices at Sandia National Laboratories. The award recognizes people who go above and beyond their jobs in energy management for the federal government. Evans has been involved...

Categories: Awards, Energy / Environment / Water, Operations / Budget, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: awards, conservation, energy, energy savings, national laboratories, national labs, power, Sandia

Award-winning Sandia Labs engineer trods global path of nonproliferation

June 27, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Adam Williams of Sandia National Laboratories won a 2012 Black Engineer of the Year Award for his work in international security and nonproliferation. Williams was named Most Promising Engineer-Government in the prestigious BEYA program, which recognizes some of the nation’s best and brightest engineers, scientists and technology...

Categories: Awards, Homeland security, Military / Defense, Nonproliferation, Operations / Budget, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: awards, BEYA, engineers, national laboratories, national labs, nonproliferation, Sandia

Graph500 adds new measurement of supercomputing performance

June 25, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Supercomputing performance is getting a new measurement with the Graph500 executive committee’s announcement of specifications for a more representative way to rate the large-scale data analytics at the heart of high-performance computing. An international team that includes Sandia National Laboratories announced the single-source shortest-path specification to assess...

Categories: Computing, Conferences / Symposia

Topics: Sandia, supercomputing

Solar nanowire array may increase percentage of sun’s frequencies available for energy conversion

June 18, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Researchers creating electricity through photovoltaics want to convert as many of the sun’s wavelengths as possible to achieve maximum efficiency. Otherwise, they’re eating only a small part of a shot duck: wasting time and money by using only a tiny bit of the sun’s incoming energies. For...

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

Topics: energy, nanomaterials, Sandia, solar

Small worlds come into focus with new Sandia microscope

June 11, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Paul Kotula recently told a colleague that Sandia’s new aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscope (AC-STEM) was like a Lamborghini with James Bond features. The $3.2 million FEI Titan G2 8200 is 50 to 100 times better than what came before, both in resolution and the time it...

Categories: Chemistry, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: chemistry, nanomaterials, Sandia, scanning transmission electron microscope

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