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Diamonds aren't forever: Sandia, Harvard team create first quantum computer bridge

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Sandia researchers have demonstrated for the first time on a single chip all the components needed to create a quantum bridge to link quantum computers together.

Journal: Science
Funder: Sandia National Laboratories

Wave energy researchers dive deep to advance clean energy source

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

One of the biggest untapped clean energy sources on the planet -- wave energy -- could one day power millions of homes across the US. But more than a century after the first tests of the power of ocean waves, it is still one of the hardest energy sources to capture. Now, engineers at Sandia National Laboratories are conducting the largest model-scale wave energy testing of its kind to improve the performance of wave-energy converters.

Hydrogen-powered passenger ferry in San Francisco Bay is possible, says Sandia study

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Nearly two years ago, Sandia National Laboratories researchers Joe Pratt and Lennie Klebanoff set out to answer one not-so-simple question: is it feasible to build and operate a high-speed passenger ferry solely powered by hydrogen fuel cells? The answer is yes. The details behind that answer are in a recent report, 'Feasibility of the SF-BREEZE: a Zero Emission, Hydrogen Fuel Cell High Speed Passenger Ferry.'

Sled track simulates high-speed accident in B61-12 test

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Sandia National Laboratories sent a mock B61-12 nuclear weapon speeding down the labs' 10,000-foot rocket sled track to slam nose-first into a steel and concrete wall in a spectacular test that mimicked a high-speed accident. It allowed engineers to examine safety features inside the weapon that prevent inadvertent nuclear detonation.

Turning to the brain to reboot computing

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Computation is stuck in a rut. The integrated circuits that powered the past 50 years of technological revolution are reaching their physical limits. This predicament has computer scientists scrambling for new ideas. Researchers from Sandia National Laboratories will present three papers at the IEEE International Conference on Rebooting Computing held Oct. 17-19, highlighting the breadth of potential non-traditional neural computing applications.

Meeting: IEEE International Conference on Rebooting Computing

Fuel cell membrane patented by Sandia outperforms market

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Industrial interest is expected in a vehicular fuel cell membrane able to excrete protons at the most effective temperature ranges, allowing electrons to form an unimpeded electric current.

Journal: Nature Energy
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, Fuel Cell Technology Office

X-ray vision: Bomb techs strengthen their hand with Sandia's XTK software

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

An image-processing and analysis software developed at Sandia National Laboratories has swept the ranks of the country's bomb squads. Called XTK, it has spread through the military and emergency response communities so rapidly that it's now in the hands of more than 20,000 users across the globe.

Blowing bubbles to catch carbon dioxide

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia and UNM researchers developed a bio-inspired bubble-like membrane to capture CO2 from coal-fired power plants efficiently. The CO2 Memzyme could capture CO2 equivalent to planting 63 million trees and letting them grow for 10 years from just one power plant.

New cooling method for supercomputers to save millions of gallons of water

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

A prototype method to cool supercomputer data centers should save hundreds of millions of gallons of water if widely adopted.

Sandia experts, students explore mechanical challenges at summer institute

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Nearly 40 students ranging from local high school youths to international postdoctoral fellows gathered this summer at Sandia National Laboratories' Nonlinear Mechanics and Dynamics (NOMAD) Summer Research Institute to study two steel bars bolted together. This deceptively simple system behaves in odd -- nonlinear -- ways, which has important implications for bridges, cars, even airplanes.

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