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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....
Black and white image of an explosive shockwave and a video play button.

American Vacuum Society honors Sandia technologist

December 15, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The American Vacuum Society has recognized Sandia National Laboratories technologist Michael F. Lopez with its Thin Film Division Distinguished Technologist Award for his exceptional technical support of thin film research and development. The society’s Thin Film Division presented the award to Lopez at the society’s recent International...
Sandia National Laboratories technologist Mike Lopez received the Thin Film Division Distinguished Technologist Award in 2016 from the American Vacuum Society. Lopez, posing in a Sandia clean room, was recognized for exceptional technical support of thin film research and development. (Photo by Randy Montoya) Click on thumbnail for a high-resolution image.

Thin film work is poster child for getting research and development to industry

May 19, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researcher Paul Vianco sees his work on thin films as a poster child for the way research and development based on nuclear weapons work can boost U.S. industry. Since the 1970s, laboratories researchers have taken studies originally performed to support the weapons program and...