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ChemCam laser first analyses yield beautiful results

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Members of the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover ChemCam team, including Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists, squeezed in a little extra target practice after zapping the first fist-sized rock that was placed in the laser's crosshairs last weekend. Much to the delight of the scientific team, the laser instrument has fired nearly 500 shots so far that have produced strong, clear data about the composition of the Martian surface.

ChemCam laser sets its sights on first Martian target

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Members of the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover ChemCam team have received the first photos from the instrument's remote micro imager. The successful capture of ChemCam's first 10 photos sets the stage for the first test bursts of the instrument's rock-zapping laser in the near future.

Increased productivity, not less energy use, results from more efficient lighting

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

More light, rather than lower costs, should be the result of increased efficiencies of LED lighting. But productivity will increase.

Journal: Energy Policy
Funder: US Department of Energy/Basic Energy Sciences Program, Sandia/Solid-State Lighting Science Energy Frontier Research Center

Offshore use of vertical-axis wind turbines gets closer look

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Sandia National Laboratories' wind energy researchers are re-evaluating vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs) to help solve some of the problems of generating energy from offshore breezes.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Sandia seeks commercial partners for revolutionary 'SpinDx' medical diagnostic tool

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed a lab-on-a-disk platform that they believe will be faster, less expensive and more versatile than similar medical diagnostic tools. Lab officials are seeking industry partners to license and commercialize the SpinDx technology, which can determine a patient's white blood cell count, analyze important protein markers, and process up to 64 assays from a single sample, all in a matter of minutes.

Funder: National Institutes of Health

Sandia SolarTrak technology helps arrays worldwide follow the sun

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

A former Sandia National Laboratories researcher licenses a Sandia solar tracking technology and builds global business around moving solar panels into the best possible position to catch sunlight and generate energy.

Colorful light at the end of the tunnel for radiation detection

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A team of nanomaterials researchers at Sandia National Laboratories has developed a new technique for radiation detection that could make radiation detection in cargo and baggage more effective and less costly for homeland security inspectors. Known as spectral shape discrimination, the method takes advantage of a new class of nanoporous materials known as metal-organic frameworks.

Small worlds come into focus with new Sandia microscope

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Paul Kotula recently told a colleague that Sandia's new aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscope (AC-STEM) was like a Lamborghini with James Bond features.

Sandia seeks best ways to protect infrastructure, recover from disasters

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Sandia National Laboratories is expecting the unexpected to help the nation prepare for severe weather and figure out the best ways to lessen the havoc hurricanes and other disasters leave on power grids, bridges, roads and everything else in their path.

Solar nanowire array may increase percentage of sun's frequencies available for energy conversion

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Using a nanowire substrate to anchor advanced photovoltaic materials, researchers are able to alleviate strains between materials that otherwise would shorten life spans for photovoltaic products.

Journal: Nanotechnology
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, Sandia National Labs

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