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Sandia-developed remote sensor expected to analyze gases up to two miles away

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new remote sensor the size of a dime being developed by the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories should allow users to rapidly detect dangerous gases from up to two miles away.

Keeping one’s distance not always a bad thing: repulsion between quantum dots helps determine lasing characteristics, researchers find

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The term "quantum dots" has a nice ring to it, like "beanie babies" or a special version of connect-the-dots games that absorb the attention of children. But while the tiny entities may sound cuddly, they find each other repulsive, and in that just-discovered knowledge may lie the secret of forming the world’s most effective solid-state lasers.

Journal: Physical Review Letters
Funder: Deptartment of Energy/Office of Basic Energy Sciences
Meeting: Gordon Conference on Thin Film

"All my friends dream of artificial limbs": US, Russian nuclear labs work with prosthetics company to develop replacement knee

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A letter expressing "deepest gratitude" from a Russian landmine victim fitted with a newly developed artificial foot demonstrates one reason for the initiation of a second project, led by Sandia National Laboratories, to develop an advanced artificial knee. Strangely, technologies for the knee prostheses are being jointly developed by two nuclear weapons laboratories on opposite sides during the Cold War, who will work with a small Ohio company on the $1.4 million project.

Funder: US Department of Energy

Sandia researchers develop world's fastest encryptor

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The world's fastest encryption device, developed at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Sandia National Laboratories, should soon be protecting data being transmitted from supercomputers, workstations, telephones and video terminals. It encrypts data at more than 6.7 billion bits per second, 10 times faster than any other known encryptor.

The dark side of telemedicine

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Illegal access and misuse of online medical or psychiatric data, whether in transit or stored, could lead to job turndowns, insurance refusals, blackmail, scandal and even death. Sandia National Laboratories researchers, interested in protecting Web-sent medical information during a natural disaster or terrorist-caused emergency, have devised a unique and inexpensive computer "architecture" to minimize hacking risks.

Sandia researchers push Z machine to new limits to test radiation effects

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Sandia National Laboratories have pushed the Z machine, the world's most powerful X-ray source, to new limits using it to test effects of radiation on materials in experiments designed to mimic the response that would occur near a hostile nuclear explosion.

Sandia Conference To Explore Potential Of Industry Clusters In Five Southwestern States

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Meeting Announcement

Some 300 business leaders and public officials from New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Texas and Utah will explore the potential of technology-driven industry clusters during the Conference on the Southwest as a Region of Innovation: Steps Toward the Next Generation Economy, scheduled for June 17-18 at the Albuquerque Convention Center.

Sandia, University Of Montana Researchers Try Training Bees To Find Buried Landmines

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Bees dutifully going about their daily business -- gathering nectar and pollen and taking it back to the hive -- may one day help protect the lives and limbs of people, literally, if a landmine-detection demonstration at Sandia National Laboratories is successful. Foraging bees may reliably and inexpensively detect buried mines and safely return hundreds of thousands of acres of uncharted land back to productive use.

Funder: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Sandia Discovery About Protein May Help Clean Up Pollutants, Find Cures For Diseases

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A discovery linking the shape of a unit called the heme in a protein to protein function may prove useful in a range of scientific advances, including finding cures for diseases and cleaning up pollutants, says discoverer John Shelnutt, a physicist at the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories.

Research Partners 'Demystify' Ceramics Manufacturing

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories, five commercial ceramic manufacturers, and Los Alamos National Laboratory are making ceramic history by taking the "art" out of ceramics production and replacing it with science, resulting in better products and lower production costs. It is the first time that competing ceramic companies and national laboratories have joined forces for research and development.