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Caught in the grip of a crushing magnetic force: New technique tests, may create, materials

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Pressures that increase from zero to a million crushing atmospheres in a few billionths of a second are testing materials with unheard-of precision at Sandia National Laboratories' Z machine. Z's power, generated by its pulverizing magnetic field, will aid the US stockpile stewardship program, answer basic physics questions, and — used similarly to the way Earth's internal pressures create diamond from coal — may create new materials.

Funder: Department of Energy

Tiny sampling device promises big results for detection and analysis of chemicals

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A sampling device smaller than the tip of a fingernail promises big results for detecting and analyzing trace chemicals. The tool, developed by the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories, is a super miniaturized version of a traditional preconcentrator used to collect sample gases for analysis. The active area of the device is only two millimeters by two millimeters.

Sandia researchers perform first-ever multiple copper corrosion experiments on single silicon wafer

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In a new approach to studying atmospheric corrosion on copper, researchers at the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories are putting multiple corrosion experiments on a single silicon wafer in a type of micro- laboratory.The combinatorial experimental method promises to shed light on how and why copper corrodes. Conductive copper is essential to most electronic devices

Sandia Red Team hacks all defenses

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The Sandia Red Team has successfully attacked every computing system the group has attempted, demonstrating that competent outsiders can hack into almost all networked computers as presently conformed, no matter how well guarded, even when attack methods are announced in advance.

Funder: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Navajo Tribal Utility Authority brings solar electricity to homes in remote areas

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new solar power initiative of the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority (NTUA) is bringing electricity to the homes of people living in remote areas of the reservation. The Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories provides technical support.

Funder: Navajo Tribal Utility Authority

Summer heat spells lights out, but new power company software might keep nation’s power on

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A recent study headed by Sandia National Laboratories suggests that major power emergencies might be averted if power companies adopt new command and control software that predicts future energy demand rather than simply responds to it. If last year’s power outages are any indication, this summer might bring Y2K-like power failures to large areas of the nation as power companies struggle to meet peak daytime electricity drain prompted by widespread air conditioner use.

Funder: Department of Energy

Sandia develops vertical cavity surface emitting laser that promises to reduce cost of fiber optics connections

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories have developed the first 1.3 micron electrically-pumped vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) grown on gallium arsenide. It promises to reduce the cost of high-speed fiber optics connections.

Summer heat spells lights out, but new power company software might keep nation’s power on

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A recent study headed by Sandia National Labs suggests that major power emergencies like statewide conservation alerts in California might be averted if power companies adopt new software that predicts future energy demand rather than simply responds to it. DOE Secretary Bill Richardson has warned that summer might bring power failures to large areas of the nation as power companies struggle to meet peak daytime electricity drain prompted by widespread air conditioner use.

Funder: Department of Energy

Could have stopped the I-Love-You virus: Intelligent agents challenge computer intruders

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An intelligent software agent able to defend itself on the Worldwide Web has been created at Sandia National Laboratories."If every node on the Internet was run by one of these agents, the I-Love-You virus would not have got beyond the first machine," says lead scientist. A cyberagent coalition successfully protected five network-linked computers over two days of attack from an expert hacker group, also at Sandia, that tests defenses of government and corporate computer systems.

Funder: DOE, Sandia National Laboratories Laboratory-Directed Research and Development

New deployable thin-film, ultralight mirror may be future of space telescopes and surveillance satellites

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories and the University of Kentucky are developing enabling technologies for a new thin-film, ultralight deployable mirror that may be the future of space telescopes and surveillance satellites.