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Look who’s turning 25

September 2, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is celebrating 25 years of research conducted at its Z Pulsed Power Facility — a gymnasium-sized accelerator commonly referred to as Z or the Z machine. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, only a limited number of former leaders of the pulsed power program at Sandia...

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

Topics: ions, magnetic, X-ray, Z

Lighting up the study of low-density materials

July 17, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — It’s hard to get an X-ray image of low-density material like tissue between bones because X-rays just pass right through like sunlight through a window. But what if you need to see the area that isn’t bone?Sandia National Laboratories studies myriad…

Categories: Materials Science, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: Condensed Matter, optics, Photonics, physics, X-ray

X-ray vision: Bomb techs strengthen their hand with Sandia’s XTK software

September 6, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In the chaos that followed the terrorist attack at the 2013 Boston Marathon, bomb squads scanned packages at the scene for explosive devices. Two homemade pressure cooker bombs had killed three people and injured more than 250, and techs quickly had to determine if more were waiting...

Categories: Homeland security, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: bomb squads, defense, Homeland security, national labs, tech transfer, X-ray, XTK