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Deflecting doom: How Sandia research could save Earth from asteroids

September 23, 2024 • The most efficient way to prevent potentially dangerous asteroids from damaging or even obliterating Earth may involve a coordinated nuclear response based on extensive prior data, according to Sandia National Laboratories physicist Nathan Moore.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: asteroid, z machine

Sandia researcher wins career achievement award from Asian technical society

September 29, 2022 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers has selected Sandia National Laboratories materials scientist Hongyou Fan to receive its 2022 Career Achievement Award. “It is evident that you embody the reason SASE created this category, and we are proud to present you this award,” wrote the organization’s...

Categories: Awards, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: Asian, asian-american scientist, diamond anvil, diversity, materials science, z machine

Truman and Hruby 2022 fellows explore their positions

March 17, 2022 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Postdoctoral researchers who are designated Truman and Hruby fellows experience Sandia National Laboratories differently from their peers. Appointees to the prestigious fellowships are given the latitude to pursue their own ideas, rather than being trained by fitting into the research plans of more experienced researchers. To give...

Categories: Awards, Bioscience / Medical Research, Climate Change, Computing, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: biofuels, chemistry, climate change, fellowship, Hruby Fellowship, postdoc, postdoctoral, pulsed power, quantum computing, Truman fellowship, wearable sensors, z machine

Alicia Magann will explore the possibilities of quantum control in the era of quantum computing during her Truman fellowship at Sandia National Laboratories

Setting gold and platinum standards where few have gone before

June 24, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Like two superheroes finally joining forces, Sandia National Laboratories’ Z machine — generator of the world’s most powerful electrical pulses — and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility — the planet’s most energetic laser source — in a series of 10 experiments have detailed the responses...

Categories: Chemistry, Materials Science, Nuclear Weapons, Science / Technology / Engineering, Space / Astronomy

Topics: gigapascals, gold, NIF, platinum, pulsed power, terapascal, z machine

Four Sandia researchers win Presidential Early Career Award

August 1, 2019 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia researchers Salvatore Campione, Matthew Gomez, Paul Schmit and Irina Tezaur have received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers for 2019. President Donald Trump announced the awards as the U.S. government’s most prestigious for early career scientist and engineers. PECASE includes $250,000 as research...

Categories: Awards, Computing, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: climate modeling, computational engineering, computer engineering, metamaterials, nanophotonics, nuclear engineering, physics, z machine

Three Sandia researchers elected fellows of the American Physical Society

February 8, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers Carlos Gutierrez, Alec Talin and Thomas Mattsson have been elected fellows of the American Physical Society. The honor is afforded each year to no more than one half of one percent of the members of the society. Talin, from Sandia’s California site, was...

Categories: Awards

Topics: electronic transport phenomenom, physics, under-represented minorities, z machine

Three Sandia engineers recognized for contributions to advancing women in STEM

October 24, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Three Sandia National Laboratories engineers have been recognized by the Society of Women Engineers as part of its annual awards program for their support in the enrichment and advancement of women in engineering. Janet Williams won the Distinguished Service Award, which recognizes members who have made significant...

Categories: Awards, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: APS, ASME, diversity, fusion, inertial confinement fuison program, inertial confinement fusion, LDRD, MESA, microscale, Microsystems and Engineering Sciences Applications, nuclear weapons, Sandia, Society of Women Engineers, STEM, SWAN, SWE, women in STEM, z machine

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

Dan Sinars represents Sandia in first energy leadership class

March 13, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Dan Sinars, a senior manager in Sandia National Laboratories’ pulsed power center, which built and operates the Z facility, is the sole representative from a nuclear weapons lab in a Department of Energy leadership program that recently visited Sandia. Members of the Oppenheimer Science and Energy Leadership...

Categories: Awards, Energy / Environment / Water

Topics: Department of Energy, fusion energy, leadership, pulsed power, z machine

Tritium introduced in fusion experiments at Sandia

November 9, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories Z Machine have opened a new chapter in their 20-year journey toward higher fusion outputs by introducing tritium, the most neutron-laden isotope of hydrogen, to their targets’ fuel. When Z fires, its huge electromagnetic field crushes pre-warmed fuel, forcing it to fuse....

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

Topics: electromagnetics, neutrons, pulsed power, tritium, Z, z 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

Thor’s hammer to crush materials at 1 million atmospheres

January 5, 2016 • Sophisticated features may influence eventual Z-machine rebuildALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A new Sandia National Laboratories accelerator called Thor is expected to be 40 times more efficient than Sandia’s Z machine, the world’s largest and most powerful pulsed-power accelerat…

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Materials Science, Military / Defense, Nanotechnology, Nuclear Weapons, Physics, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: change of state, extreme conditions, magnetic fields, particle accelerator, pulsed power, stockpile stewardship, Thor, Z, z machine

Sandia physicist accepts first joint faculty appointment with Washington State University

September 3, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories physicist Marcus Knudson is the first joint faculty appointee to serve both Sandia and Washington State University (WSU). In the position, Knudson will enhance fundamental research into the compression of materials under extreme conditions, using Sandia’s unique Z machine. “The science of dynamic material...

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

Topics: duvall, high energy density, Marcus Knudson, pulsed power, shock compression, Washington State, z machine

‘Iron Sun’ is not a rock band, but a key to how stars transmit energy

January 6, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M — Working at temperatures matching the interior of the sun, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories’ Z machine have been able to determine experimentally, for the first time in history, iron’s role in inhibiting energy transmission from the center of the sun to near the edge of its radiative...

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

Topics: astrophysics, energy transmission, fusion, iron, physics, Standard Solar Model, stars, sun, z machine

Sandia magnetized fusion technique produces significant results

September 22, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories’ Z machine have produced a significant output of fusion neutrons, using a method fully functioning for only little more than a year. The experimental work is described in a paper to be published in the Sept. 24 Physical Review Letters online. A...

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

Topics: deuterium, fusion, laser, magLIF, magnetic fields, nuclear fusion, Physical Review Letters, tritium, Z, z machine

DOE Early Career award won by Sandia researcher Stephanie Hansen

June 9, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A $2.5 million, five-year Early Career Research Program award from the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science has been won by Sandia National Laboratories researcher Stephanie Hansen for her fundamental science proposal to improve existing atomic-scale models for high-energy-density matter. Thirty-five winners were chosen by peer...

Categories: Awards, Nuclear Weapons, Physics

Topics: DOE, early career award, high energy density, ICF experiments, nano, radiation, z machine

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

American Physical Society names four Sandia fellows

May 7, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Four Sandia researchers have been named Fellows of the American Physical Society, an honor that indicates recognition by scientific peers of exceptional contributions to physics. No more than one half of 1 percent of APS membership can be elected in a given year. Those honored are: Charles...

Categories: Awards, Chemistry, Computing, Materials Science, Nanotechnology, Physics, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: CINT, Z, z machine, ZLASMMPS

Fusion instabilities lessened by unexpected effect

January 9, 2014 • Control of widely recognized distortion may allow greater output at Sandia’s Z machine ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A surprising effect created by a 19th century device called a Helmholtz pair offers clues about how to achieve controlled nuclear fusion at Sandia National Laboratories’ powerful Z machine. A Helmholz coil produces a...

Categories: Physics, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: Helmholz coils, instabilities, magLIF, magnetic fields, nuclear fusion, Rayleigh-Taylor, z machine

High-impact Sandia physicist publishes technical, yet personal, memoir

June 6, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The swan song of retiring Sandia physicist Tom Sanford is in a technical, yet personal, memoir about experiments that changed the course of research at particle accelerators around the world. His experiments in the mid-1990s made the Z accelerator a more effective candidate to achieve peacetime fusion...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: accelerator, autobiography, deuterium, energy, HERMES III, nuclear fusion, Tom Sanford, z machine, z pinch

Japanese city councilor journeys to end furor over Sandia Z tests

May 23, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Yasuyuki Kaneko left his wife and two small children at the end of April to fly from the northern Japanese city of Sapporo to Albuquerque. He stayed overnight at a small hotel a few blocks from the airport. The next morning, Kaneko — a Sapporo city councilor —...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: atomic bomb, Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, Japan, Z, z machine

Sandia physicist wins two national awards

November 29, 2012 • Albuquerque, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories senior manager Mark Herrmann has garnered two national awards for his work in high-energy-density science. In September, the American Physical Society elected him a Fellow, an honor limited to 0.5 percent of the society’s membership in any given year. The citation, formally presented at...

Categories: Awards, Operations / Budget, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: American Physical Society, fusion, inertial fusion, national laboratories, Sandia, z machine

Dry-run experiments verify key aspect of Sandia nuclear fusion concept

September 17, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Magnetically imploded tubes called liners, intended to help produce controlled nuclear fusion at scientific “break-even” energies or better within the next few years, have functioned successfully in preliminary tests, according to a Sandia research paper accepted for publication by Physical Review Letters (PRL). To exceed scientific break-even is...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Materials Science, Military / Defense, Nanotechnology, Nuclear Weapons, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: beryllium, deuterium, energy, magnetic fields, nuclear fusion, simulations, tritium, Z accelerator, z machine