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Sandia National Laboratories' unique approach to materials allows temperature-stable circuits

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Sandia has developed a unique materials approach to multilayered, ceramic-based, 3-D microelectronics circuits, such as those used in cell phones. The approach compensates for how changes due to temperature fluctuations affect something called the temperature coefficient of resonant frequency, a critical property of materials used in radio and microwave frequency applications.

Journal: Journal of Microelectronics and Electronic Packaging

Sandia Labs technology used in Fukushima cleanup

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A Sandia National Laboratories technology has been used to remove radioactive material from more than 43 million gallons of contaminated wastewater at Japan's damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Sandia researchers had worked around the clock following the March 2011 disaster to show the technology worked in seawater, which was pumped in to cool the plant's towers.

Navy pilot training enhanced by AEMASE 'smart machine' developed at Sandia Labs

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Navy pilots and other flight specialists soon will have a new "smart machine" installed in training simulators that learns from expert instructors to more efficiently train their students. Sandia National Laboratories' Automated Expert Modeling & Student Evaluation (AEMASE, pronounced "amaze") is being provided to the Navy as a component of flight simulators.

Funder: Office of Naval Research

ER doc, Sandia Labs engineer join forces on stronger trauma shears

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

An Albuquerque physician teamed with a Sandia National Laboratories engineer to improve the doctor's trauma shears design so emergency personnel can get to the injuries they need to treat more quickly.

Vestas to install research wind turbine at Sandia facility in Texas

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

The initial phase of Sandia National Laboratories' Scaled Wind Farm Technology facility (SWIFT), currently being constructed in partnership with Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, will be a little bigger than originally planned. Leading wind turbine manufacturer Vestas will add its own 300-kilowatt, V27 research turbine to the two Sandia V27 research turbines.

Sandia National Laboratories' work on neutron generation: Going from tubes to chips

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

It was a figurative whack on the head that started Sandia National Laboratories distinguished technical staff member Juan Elizondo-Decanini thinking outside the box -- which in his case was a cylinder. He developed a new configuration for neutron generators by turning from conventional cylindrical tubes to the flat geometry of computer chips.

Funder: DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Miniature Sandia sensors may advance climate studies

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An air sampler the size of an ear plug is expected to cheaply and easily collect atmospheric samples to improve computer climate models. The inexpensive tool collects pristine vapor samples in the field. It can be used in medicine and to diagnose pollution sources.

Journal: Review of Scientific Instruments
Funder: Sandia Laboratory-Directed Research and Development

Sandia National Laboratories' Ion Beam Laboratory looks at advanced materials for reactors

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Sandia National Laboratories is using its Ion Beam Laboratory to study how to rapidly evaluate the tougher advanced materials needed to build the next generation of nuclear reactors and extend the lives of current reactors.

Magnetic field researchers target 100-tesla goal

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory's biggest magnet facility today met the grand challenge of producing magnetic fields in excess of 100 tesla while conducting six different experiments.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation

Nuclear fusion simulation shows high-gain energy output

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A computer simulation that shows a release of high-yield fusion energy much greater than previously achieved at Sandia's Z accelerator is being prepared for testing in 2013.

Journal: Physical Review Letters
Funder: National Nuclear Security Administration, Sandia Laboratory/Directed Research and Development Office

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