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New Mexico veteran-owned small business nominated for Department of Energy award

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Grant and Award Announcement

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Pluma, LLC, has been nominated by Sandia National Laboratories as the Department of Energy’s Protégé of the Year as part of its Mentor-Protégé Program. Pluma, a general construction business started in Albuquerque, is one of five businesses Sandia accepted into the program with the mission of helping them grow with the labs’ guidance, knowledge, leadership and resources.

Ultrafast beam-steering breakthrough at Sandia Labs

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

n a major breakthrough in the fields of nanophotonics and ultrafast optics, a Sandia National Laboratories research team has demonstrated the ability to dynamically steer light pulses from conventional, so-called incoherent light sources.

Journal: Nature Photonics
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Ultrafast beam-steering breakthrough at Sandia National Labs

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers show for the first time that incoherent light emitted by most light sources — incandescent bulbs, LEDs, flashlights— can be reconstituted as a focused, steerable beam of light much like lasers.

Journal: Nature Photonics
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Qubits put new spin on magnetism: Boosting applications of quantum computers

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Research using a quantum computer as the physical platform for quantum experiments has found a way to design and characterize tailor-made magnetic objects using quantum bits, or qubits. That opens up a new approach to develop new materials and robust quantum computing.

Journal: Science Advances

How can we tackle the biggest challenges? Ask a plant

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Without plants, we’d have no air to breathe or food to eat, yet plant science lingers in the shadowy wings while other fields take center stage. With the goal of shining the spotlight on plants, a new study presents the field’s top 100 most pressing questions for research to address the greatest challenges facing humanity.

Journal: New Phytologist

Sandia scientists help enhance advanced nuclear reactor analysis

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia National Laboratories engineers have developed a standardized screening method to determine the most important radioactive isotopes produced by an advanced nuclear reactor in the unlikely event of an incident.

Funder: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Hackers could try to take over a military aircraft; can a cyber shuffle stop them?

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A cybersecurity technique that shuffles network addresses like a blackjack dealer shuffles playing cards could effectively befuddle hackers gambling for control of a military jet, commercial airliner or spacecraft, according to new research.

Journal: IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing

Studying ship tracks to inform climate intervention decision-makers

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists from Sandia National Laboratories are studying ship tracks — clouds that reflect sunlight and are formed by moving ships, similar to contrails from planes — to help inform decision-makers of the benefits and risks of one technology being considered to slow climate change.

Journal: Environmental Data Science
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

New superalloy could cut carbon emissions from power plants

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers from Sandia National Laboratories have shown that a new 3D-printed superalloy could help power plants generate more electricity while producing less carbon.

Journal: Applied Materials Today

Securing supply chains with quantum computing

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New research in quantum computing at Sandia National Laboratories is moving science closer to being able to overcome supply-chain challenges and restore global security during future periods of unrest.

Journal: Physical Review A

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