Sandia National Laboratories
Thu, 03/24/2016 - 15:21
Channeling the Inner Geek ‘You know you’re an engineer when...’ winners named
Thu, 03/24/2016 - 15:21
Sandia’s Engineering Sciences Center helped mark National Engineers Week with a contest, asking Sandians to complete the following sentence: “You know you’re an engineer when… .” The contest drew dozens of endings for the sentence, and Sandians…
Fill ‘Er Up! H2FIRST aims for awareness and a widespread hydrogen fueling infrastructure
Wed, 05/14/2014 - 12:34
As hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles roll out in increasing numbers, so must the infrastructure that fuels them. To this end, a new project launched by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and led by Sandia National Laboratories and the National Renewable…
Partly Cloudy Measuring solar power plant output
Wed, 04/09/2014 - 16:28
Sandia National Laboratories engineers have been studying the most effective ways to use solar photovoltaic (PV) arrays—a clean, affordable, and renewable way to keep the power on. Systems are relatively easy to install and have relatively small…
High-Quality White Light from Four-Color Laser Source Diode lasers could eventually challenge LEDs for home and industrial lighting
Fri, 11/18/2011 - 10:18
The human eye is as comfortable with white light generated by diode lasers as with that produced by increasingly popular light-emitting diodes (LEDs), according to tests conceived at Sandia National Laboratories. Both technologies pass electrical…
World’s Smallest Atomic Clock on Sale A steal at $1,500
Wed, 09/07/2011 - 12:06
(Sandia National Laboratories: Albuquerque, NM) -- A matchbook-sized atomic clock 100 times smaller than its commercial predecessors has been created by a team of researchers at Symmetricom Inc., Draper Laboratory, and Sandia National…