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Tracking Hepatitis C: Health Project Demos Worldwide Early-Warning System For Disease Outbreaks; Sandia Tests Disease-Tracking Approach

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

As part of a Sandia National Laboratories-led effort to create a worldwide disease tracking network, hospital emergency rooms in three New Mexico cities and in a formerly secret Russian city this week began gathering and posting on the Internet information about an emerging disease, hepatitis C, that physicians say could have major world health implications.

Device Determines Food Not Fit To Eat: Refrozen Food Detector Patented By Sandia

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An inexpensive indicator that warns when a package of frozen food has been thawed and then refrozen has been patented by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories. Defrosting and then refreezing permits growth of dangerous bacteria and can degrade the taste of food.

Funder: Department of Energy

Hot Research At Sandia May Make Producing Electricity From Geothermal Energy More Cost Competitive

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Sandia researchers may make electricity derived from geothermal energy more economically feasible with new electronic instrument systems that can operate at more than 100 degrees hotter than current instrumentation.

Funder: DOE

Wear-Resistant Diamond Coating Created By Sandia Scientists: Superhard Material Thickly Coats Metals, Plastics, Also Stands Alone

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An ultrahard diamond coating applied as thickly as desired -- something never before achieved -- and at room temperatures has been created by scientists at Sandia National Labs. The advance means improved protection for metal tools, auto parts and even plastics, including biomedical devices.

Journal: Applied Physics Letters
Funder: DOE

Sandia Formally Proposes To Design Accelerator Expected To Achieve High-YieldFusion

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Permission to prepare a conceptual design for an accelerator, X-1, expected to achieve high-yield fusion by imploding capsules of deuterium and tritium, has been formally requested by Sandia of DOE. The request was made after Sandia's prototype Z accelerator passed its fourth and final milestone last week, producing power, energy and heat far exceeding requirements.

Funder: DOE

Like Sticking A Balloon To A Sweater: Electrostatic Chuck To Improve Microchip Production Patented By Sandia

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A device expected to be potentially more effective than any on the market in helping cool silicon wafers during the chip manufacturing process has been patented in prototype by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories.

Funder: DOE/Sematech

Not Science Fiction Any More: Sandia Scientists Develop Quantum Mechanical Transistor

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories have developed a transistor based on quantum mechanical principles. The device is much faster than any commecial transistor in use today and is created with readily available manufacturing techniques. .

Journal: Applied Physics Letters
Funder: DOE Defense Programs

Sandia Scientist, Colleague, Suggest Meteor Plumes Causing Transient Dark Spots In Upper Atmosphere

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Calculations of a Sandia National Laboratories physicist and his Texas-based colleague may offer additional insight into a decade-old controversy as to whether up to 30,000 house-sized snowballs, or icy comets, are striking Earth each day.

Journal: Geophysical Research Letters

Sandia Labs Developing Means To Sniff Out Landmines

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Sandia National Laboratories has joined the effort to rid the planet of what some people have called its worst form of pollution -- landmines. Sandia's detection and de-mining work ranges from chemical sensitivity, backscattered x-rays, quick-hardening foam, with robotic vehicles to support the technologies.

Funder: DOD, DOE

Like A Hippopotamus Turning On A Dime: Sandia “Photonic Crystal” Bends Microwaves Around Tight Corner

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A Sandia "photonic lattice" -- a kind of artificial crystal - - has bent microwaves around 90-degree corners, within radii smaller than a wavelength, and with almost 100 percent transmission efficiency, offering promise of cheaper and more efficient communications.

Funder: Department of Energy; Sandia Laboratory-Directed Research and Development; published in Science