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New 2.5D neuromorphic discovery platform will enable AI-enhanced co-design 
News Article, June 7, 2023 • AI-enhanced co-design will be enabled through Sandia’s 2.5D neuromorphic discovery platform. Novel material and device concepts previously took years for iteration. Discoveries in this LDRD project will now allow them to be iterated on in weeks thanks to a new easy fabrication substrate platform for novel devices. The team designed...
A segmented graphic design showing six elements of Sandia’s 2.5D neuromorphic discovery platform.

New Mexico Artificial Intelligence Consortium (NMAIC)
Page • New Mexico AI Consortium Groundbreaking collaboration propelling NM to forefront of AI What is the New Mexico AI Consortium? The New Mexico Artificial Intelligence Consortium (NMAIC) is a groundbreaking collaboration between the state's leading national laboratories, universities, and colleges. Its mission is to propel New Mexico to the forefront of...
the state of New Mexico outlined on a computer chip with logos of participants

New technology for heterogeneously integrated devices allows for underfilling of complex geometries using driven fluids 
News Article, June 7, 2023 • Underfilling is a widely used manufacturing process that helps stabilize and reinforce solder joints in electronic parts. However, heterogeneously integrated (HI) devices are challenging to underfill using standard capillary flow methods, due to large areas with narrow gaps—trenches that act as strong flow barriers, and high bump density that cause...

Nuclear Energy Systems Laboratory (NESL)/Brayton Lab
Facility • NESL focuses on creating a thermal-to-electric power conversion technology in a configuration called the recompression closed Brayton cycle that uses supercritical carbon dioxide as the working fluid.
Researcher observing component in the Brayton Lab

One-Control Many
Page • As unmanned systems (UMS) are increasingly used in the battlefield, advantages provided by strategy, tactics, and training must be translated into UMS control systems. It’s a challenge to effectively control large numbers of UMS. The human operator must focus on high-level perception, tactics, and strategy while the system automates lower-level...

Optimizing machine learning decisions with prediction uncertainty
News Article, May 9, 2023 • Digital background depicting innovative technologies in (AI) artificial systems, neural interfaces and internet machine learning technologies While ML classifiers are widespread, output is often not part of a follow-on decision-making process because of lack of uncertainty quantification. Through this project, the team developed decision analysis methods that combined uncertainty estimates...
Digital background image of brain connectors

Other Facilities and Capabilities
Page • Other Facilities and Capabilities High Voltage Breakdown TestingWe can perform high voltage standoff testing with DC and pulsed voltages.  DC testing can be conducted up to 200 kV.  Pulsed voltage from 140 – 400 kV can be attained, with a typical lightning waveform – unipolar, 1.2 microsecond risetime and 50...

Out of the desert, a quantum powerhouse rises
News Article, April 23, 2024 • They knew it was an ambitious goal. But by the time they announced it in 2022, Sandia and The University of New Mexico — two of the state’s largest research institutions — had been working out their strategy for more than a year. Read more about quantum powerhouse
Postdoctoral researcher Caitlin McCowan inspects pieces of silicon at the atomic level. She uses a scanning tunneling microscope to spot imperfections as part of a quantum research project at Sandia. (Photo by Craig Fritz)

Partnership Mechanisms
Page • We routinely partner with other organizations to help transition our scientific discoveries and technologies to the marketplace. We also form collaborative research partnerships with industry, universities, and government agencies so that collectively, we can change the world for the better. Licensing We offer a variety of licenses covering the breadth...

Partnership Opportunities
Page • Sandia placed a high value on its interactions with other federal agencies, universities, and private industry. Several contract vehicles exist to partner with Sandia to purchase services, transfer technology through Cooperative Research and Development Agreements or to license Sandia-developed technology. Our staff will work with you to develop the appropriate...

People
Page • Sandia excels in innovative fundamental materials science research – developing and integrating the theoretical insights, computational simulation tools and deliberate experiments that provide foundational, predictive understanding of the performance of Sandia’s current and future mission-critical materials in order to provide the solid technical basis for Sandia’s engineering decisions and enabling...

Perception & Decision Tools
Page • High Consequence, Automation, & Robotics (HCAR) specializes in the development of advanced perception technologies and decision tools that enable robotic and unmanned systems to perform more complex and autonomous tasks, such as simultaneous localization and mapping of a building. Our perception capabilities include 3-D geometric modeling and texture mapping, 3-D...

Photovoltaic System Evaluation Laboratory (PSEL)
Facility • Sandia’s Photovoltaic Systems Evaluation Laboratory (PSEL) enables performance characterization of photovoltaic (PV) cells, modules, and systems. PSEL research is conducted on behalf of the Department of Energy (DOE) and other government sponsors, in direct collaboration with industry and academic partners.
Photovoltaic modules

Physical Science
Page • Recycling products from the inside out Detecting battery failures quicker Studying subterranean storage of hydrogen Sandia’s research in physical science creates innovative, science-based, solutions to our nation’s most challenging problems. Our work for the DOE’s Office of Basic Energy Sciences (BES) includes materials science and engineering, chemical sciences, geosciences, and...

Plasma Research Facility (PRF)
Facility • The PRF offers collaborators access to cutting edge diagnostic and computational capabilities and the expertise that is needed to set up and execute experiments and analyze data generated during the collaborative endeavor.
Atmospheric pressure plasma jet

Powerful Sandia machine-learning model shows diamond melting at high pressure
News Article, April 10, 2024 • A Sandia supercomputer simulation model called SNAP, or Spectral Neighbor Analysis Potential, that rapidly predicts the behavior of billions of interacting atoms has captured the melting of diamond when compressed by extreme pressures and temperatures. Read more about the Powerful Sandia machine-learning model
DIAMOND BREAKDOWN — This multibillion atom simulation of shockwave propagation into initially uncompressed diamond (blue) uses Sandia’s high-accuracy SNAP, or Spectral Neighbor Analysis Potential, model to predict that the final state (orange) is formed by recrystallization of amorphous cracks (red) that take shape in the light blue, green and yellow compressed material. (Computer image by Aidan Thompson)

Precision Micro Assembly
Page • In optoelectronics and optomechanics manufacturing, precision assembly of increasingly small devices has become a critical capability. Microscopic machines are the focus of the High Consequence, Automation, & Robotics (HCAR) Precision Micro Assembly Lab. Created to investigate the automated assembly of microelectromechanical (MEMS) components, the laboratory is developing technologies for a...

Predicting catastrophic failure and collapse in infrastructure
News Article, March 20, 2023 • The team, led by Sandia principal investigator Jessica Rimsza, developed new modeling capabilities for evaluating multiphase phenomena in cement-based materials in energy and infrastructure applications, a chemo-mechanical model for cement fracture, identified sources of uncertainty in cement degradation and concrete fracture, and created six new capabilities for modeling brittle fracture...
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Pressure Measurement Sensors
Page • Challenge Tactile (touch) sensing has many engineering and medical applications. Robotic and prosthetic hands can use tactile sensing to manipulate objects or provide feedback to the user. Sensors can also measure the interface pressure and shear loads on human soft tissues (e.g., skin) in a prosthetic device, exoskeleton, or shoe....

Primary Standards Laboratory (PSL)
Facility • The PSL provides technical guidance, support, and consultation and anticipates future measurement needs of the nuclear weapons complex and other DOE programs.
Two researchers observing dimensional measurement systems

Processing & Environmental Lab (PETL)
Facility • PETL R&D ranges from understanding mechanisms at the atomic level to developing nuclear weapons components and evaluating the lifetime and reliability of the nuclear stockpile.
Processing & Environmental Laboratory Building

Programs & Capabilities
Page • EM Program Areas Broadband EM response (EMR), electromagnetic pulse (EMP), electrostatic discharge (ESD), and LightningSystem response to hostile (X-ray) environments, such as system-generated EM pulse (SGEMP)Lightning environment assessment of facilities and processesPulsed Power model and analysisHigh voltage breakdown and arcingTerawatt beams and power flow analysisAntenna evaluationDevelopment of validated, high physical-fidelity...
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