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Sandia’s solar glitter closer to market with new licensing agreement

January 31, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An Albuquerque company founded by a Sandia National Laboratories scientist-turned-entrepreneur has received a license for a “home-grown” technology that could revolutionize the way solar energy is collected and used. The licensing agreement was signed Jan. 23 between mPower Technology Inc. and Sandia for microsystems enabled photovoltaics (MEPV)....

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, economic impact, energy, licensing, national labs, renewable energy, solar, solar glitter, tech transfer

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

Sandia Labs tapped again to lead national solar evaluation centers

May 3, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories won a three-year renewal of a Department of Energy contract to manage the U.S. Regional Test Centers (RTCs), a network of five sites across the country where industry can assess the performance, reliability and economic viability of solar photovoltaic (PV) technologies. The program currently...

Categories: Renewable energy, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, economic impact, energy, partnerships, PV, renewable energy, RTCs, solar, solar electricity, tech transfer

U.S. rooftops get a thumbs-up for solar after Sandia testing

April 14, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Most U.S. rooftops in good repair can take the weight of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems. That’s the conclusion of a three-year study by a research team led by Sandia National Laboratories. “There is a misperception in the building industry that existing residential rooftops lack the strength to...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy

Topics: PV, renewable energy, roof strength, rooftop, solar, solar energy

Testing heats up at Sandia’s Solar Tower with high temperature falling particle receiver

July 1, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are working to lower the cost of solar energy systems and improve efficiencies in a big way, thanks to a system of small particles. This month, engineers lifted Sandia’s continuously recirculating falling particle receiver to the top of the tower at the...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy

Topics: concentrating solar power, energy production, falling particle receiver, solar, solar tower, sunshot

Combining ‘Tinkertoy’ materials with solar cells for increased photovoltaic efficiency

November 3, 2014 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have received a $1.2 million award from the U.S. Department of Energy’s SunShot Initiative to develop a technique that they believe will significantly improve the efficiencies of photovoltaic materials and h…

Categories: Materials Science, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: electricity, energy, metal-organic framework, MOF, renewable energy, solar, sunshot

Sandia National Laboratories researcher Vitalie Stavila inserts a substrate patterned with electrodes into a temperature-controlled liquid-phase reactor for depositing MOF thin films. Sandia's research team plans to combine MOFs with dye-sensitized solar cells, a technique it believes will lead to advancements in photovoltaic technology. (Photo by Dino Vournas)

Clearing up cloudy understanding on solar power plant output

March 19, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories engineers have been studying the most effective ways to use solar photovoltaic (PV) arrays — a clean, affordable and renewable way to keep the power on. Systems are relatively easy to install and have relatively small main…

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

Topics: electrical grid, PV, solar, sunshot, University of California

Sandia Labs harnessing the sun’s energy with tiny particles

September 16, 2013, Media Advisory • [caption id="" align="alignright" width="313"] Joshua Mark Christian working with the falling particle receiver, which more efficiently converts the sun’s energy to electricity in large-scale, concentrating solar power plants. (Photo by Randy Montoya) Click on the thumbnai…

Categories: Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: concentrating solar power, energy production, falling particle receiver, solar, solar tower, sunshot

Sandia and Arizona State University sign MOU

August 30, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories and Arizona State University have signed a formal partnership agreement on important renewable energy challenges. The goals of the memorandum of understanding are to encourage collaborative research, build educational and wo…

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: collaboration, energy, national laboratories, partnerships, renewable, solar

Sandia researchers bring lab experience to world of business

March 28, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Three Sandia National Laboratories workers were recognized for taking technology out of the labs and into the private sector. Laurence Brown, Matt Donnelly and Jim Pacheco received Entrepreneurial Spirit Awards for their participation in a Sandia program that encourages researchers to take jobs at startup or expanding...

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

Topics: awards, business, community, economic development, energy, engineers, entrepreneur, materials science, materirals science, national laboratories, national labs, Sandia, small business, solar, tech transfer, technology

Cool Earth Solar and Sandia team up in first-ever public-private partnership on Open Campus

February 20, 2013 • LIVERMORE, Calif.— In a public-private partnership that takes full advantage of the Livermore Valley Open Campus (LVOC) for the first time, Sandia National Laboratories and Cool Earth Solar have signed an agreement that could make solar energy more affordable and accessibl…

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: Cool Earth Solar, energy, LVOC, national laboratories, Sandia, solar

Sandia helps DOE bring large-scale solar systems to market

November 27, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is advancing viable, low-carbon power through collaborating on five U.S. Regional Test Centers (RTCs) where industry can assess the performance, reliability and bankability of large-scale photovoltaic energy systems. “With the trend in the solar industry toward larger systems and greater capital investment – substantial...

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

Topics: business, economic development, energy, national laboratories, national labs, partnerships, power, PV, renewable, research, Sandia, solar, testing

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

November 13, 2012 • [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250" caption="The Molten Salt Test Loop is the only test facility in the country that can provide real power plant conditions and collect data about the interactions of pressure, temperature and flow rates. (Photo by Randy Montoya) Cl…

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

Sandia solar researcher chosen as one of continent’s ten most brilliant scientists

September 24, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia researcher Greg Nielson is “one of the 10 most promising young scientists working today,” says Popular Science magazine. Nielson garnered one of the magazine’s “Brilliant 10” awards for helping lead the Sandia effort to create solar cells the size of glitter. Past Brilliant 10 honorees have...

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

Topics: Brilliant 10, efficiency, energy, photovoltaic solar glitter energy Brilliant Ten 10 Popular Science, photovoltaics, solar

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

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