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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...
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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.
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.
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
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 Arctic shoreline loss to protect critical infrastructure and security
News Article, August 24, 2026 • Arctic coastlines underlain by ice-rich permafrost are eroding at unprecedented rates as warming air and more powerful storm waves undermine frozen soils. This shoreline loss threatens everything from local communities and pipelines to strategic military sites, making reliable forecasts vital for national security and infrastructure planning. To meet this need,...
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...
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.
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.
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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Page • Factsheets Intelligent Systems, Robotics, and Cybernetics (PDF, 991 KB) - (now called High Consequence, Automation, & Robotics)Gemini Scout - Mine Rescue Vehicle (PDF, 922 KB)One Controlling Many (PDF, 922 MB)Small Caliber Guided Bullet (651 KB)The Sandia Hand (PDF, 999 KB)Urban Hopper Program (PDF, 848 KB)Western National Robot Rodeo & CAPEX June 23-27,...
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Quantum Scientific Computing Open User Testbed (QSCOUT)
Facility • QSCOUT is a quantum computing testbed based on trapped ions that is available to the research community as an open platform for a range of quantum computing applications.
Quantum-accurate multiscale modeling in highly compressed metals
News Article, June 22, 2023 • Lasers are used to align diagnostics and hardware prior to shooting on Sandia's Z machine, the world's most powerful and efficient laboratory radiation source. The development of equations-of-state and transport models in areas such as shock compression and fusion energy science is critical to DOE programs. Notable shortcomings in these...
R&D 100 Awards
Page • R&D World magazine honors inventors by identifying the 100 most technologically significant products and advancements each year and recognizing the winning innovators and their organizations. Winners are chosen from an international pool of submissions from universities, private corporations, and government labs. In 2025, Sandia researchers took home eight R&D 100 Awards. Since...
Radiation Effects and High Energy Physics
Page • Detecting nuclear materials using light Deflecting doom: How Sandia research could save Earth from asteroids Testing materials to create the next generation of fusion reactors Advancing science and engineering in the areas of radiation effects sciences, electromagnetics, high energy density science, and pulsed-power science and technology is critical to addressing...
Rapid, high-fidelity turbulent combustion modeling for next-generation defense engines
News Article, August 24, 2026 • Accurately simulating how fuel burns in turbulent flows is essential for designing and running jet engines, rocket motors, and new hypersonic propulsion systems, which are important for national security. However, fully capturing the complex chemical reactions and fluid transport in these flames can require solving hundreds to thousands of coupled...
Remotely Operated Weapon Systems (ROWS)
Page • High Consequence, Automation, & Robotics (HCAR) has leveraged its long history and experience in the design and development of automated systems for high-consequence operations for the development of an advanced command and control system for Remotely Operated Weapon Systems (ROWS) technology, enabling the development of new applications for a variety...
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