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Sandia's 'cooler' technology offers fundamental breakthrough in heat transfer

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Sandia National Laboratories has developed a new technology with the potential to dramatically alter the air-cooling landscape in computing and microelectronics and lab officials are now seeking licensees in the electronics chip cooling field to license and commercialize the device. The "Sandia Cooler," also known as the "Air Bearing Heat Exchanger," is a novel, proprietary air-cooling invention developed by Sandia researcher Jeff Koplow.

Funder: US Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Micro-dragonflies and microvalves make mark at annual MEMS student design contest

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Grant and Award Announcement

A dragonfly as small as a dust mote, its four tiny wings beating like it had momentarily alit on a lily pad, and a highly sensitive microvalve were the big winners in this year's student design contest for extraordinarily tiny devices at Sandia National Laboratories. The winners -- Texas Tech University for the novel insect and Carnegie Mellon University for the valve -- were announced at a recent Sandia awards ceremony.

Funder: International Society for Optics and Photonics, Sandia National Labs

Solar wind samples give insight into birth of solar system

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The first oxygen and nitrogen isotopic measurements of the Sun are complete, demonstrating that they are very different from the same elements on Earth. These results were the top two priorities of NASA's Genesis mission, which crashed on reentry to Earth. But the Los Alamos National Laboratory's Solar Wind Concentrator survived the crash and eventually yielded today's solar secrets.

Journal: Science
Funder: NASA

Los Alamos National Laboratory earns 3 R&D 100 Awards

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists have won three of R&D Magazine's 2011 R&D100 Awards. Recognized as the "Oscars of Invention" by the Chicago Tribune, these awards honor the top 100 proven technological advances of the past year. The winning Laboratory technologies include a molecular beacon that targets specific nucleic acids, a spacer fluid for oil wells that shrinks when heated, and a better way to produce thorium, an elemental sustainable energy source.

Sandia captures 4 R&D 100 Awards

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Grant and Award Announcement

Four R&D awards in a range of fields have been awarded Sandia Labs researchers.

New thermal battery manufacturing method to be industrialized under Sandia, ATB research agreement

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

A new thin-film coating process for manufacturing thermal batteries used in nuclear weapons and other munitions that was invented at Sandia National Laboratories will be industrialized under a new corporate partnership with a Maryland company. The process could lead to create lighter batteries in a variety of shapes for future applications.

Research questions reality of 'supersolid' in helium-4

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The long-held, but unproven idea that helium-4 enters into an exotic phase of matter dubbed a "supersolid" when cooled to extremely low temperatures has been challenged in a new paper published recently in Science.

Journal: Science

Sandia Labs unlocks secrets of plague with stunning new imaging techniques

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed a super-resolution microscopy technique that is answering long-held questions about exactly how and why a cell's defenses fail against some invaders, such as plague, while successfully fending off others like E.coli. The approach is revealing never-before-seen detail of the cell membrane, which could open doors to new diagnostic, prevention and treatment techniques.

Japanese collaboration promises to put Sandia hydrogen program on global track

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

A new hydrogen research initiative based in Japan will leverage Department of Energy-funded hydrogen research at Sandia National Laboratories' California site and will likely become the first research effort to be rolled into a broader laboratory research umbrella aimed at increasing the laboratories' hydrogen partnerships domestically and abroad.

World's smallest atomic clock on sale

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A matchbook-sized atomic clock 100 times smaller than its commercial predecessors has been created by researchers. The portable Chip Scale Atomic Clock -- only about 1.5 inches on a side and less than a half-inch in depth -- also requires 100 times less power than its predecessors. Instead of 10 watts, it uses only 100 milliwatts. "It's the difference between lugging around a device powered by a car battery and one powered by two AA batteries," said Sandia lead investigator Darwin Serkland.

Funder: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency