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Advanced Power Electronic Conversion Systems (APEX)
The Advanced Power Electronic Conversion Systems (APEX) Laboratory supports the development of advanced power conversion topologies and intelligent control strategies. Research in the APEX laboratory focuses on robust and fault-tolerant conversion systems for utility-scale energy storage. Applications of interest range from individual cell-level battery interfaces to cascaded and modular multilevel...
Researcher working in APEX lab

Aerial Cable Facility (ACF)
The ACF is a unique capability for simulating drop and high-velocity impact testing combining a breadth of instrumentation.
Worker preparing for a cable pulldown test

Blast Tube Facility
The Blast Tube facility provides tests using different blast tube configurations with varying lengths and diameters to perform tests with energetic and hazardous materials.
Blast tube flow shot with fireball

Burn Site
Lurance Canyon Burn Site (LCBS) provides controlled fire environments to perform fundamental studies, simulate transportation and handling accidents for nuclear safety studies, and evaluate and certify hazardous materials shipping containers.
Item on fire at the burn site

Centrifuge/Superfuge
The Superfuge capability provides the most realistic flight environments beyond the typical launch, reentry, and flight inertial loads by combining vibration, spin, thermal, and shock.
Three technicians/engineers working on a component

Energy Storage Test Pad (ESTP)
ESTP, in conjunction with the Energy Storage Analysis Laboratory (ESAL), provides long-term testing and validation for electrical energy storage systems. The goal of the ESTP is to develop advanced energy storage technologies that will increase reliability, performance, and competitiveness of electricity generation and transmission.
Man standing next to an energy storage test pad

Explosive Components Facility (ECF)
The ECF provides unique capabilities allowing staff to design, test, and prototype a wide variety of energetic components in support of Sandia's ND mission.
Explosive Components Facility Building

Explosive Technology Group (ETG)
ETG provides diverse technical expertise and an agile, integrated approach to solve complex challenges for all classes of energetic materials (EM) and explosive components.
Two scientists looking at components

High Operating Temperature (HOT)
The HOT site researchers simulate conditions found deep underground to study the effects of heat on the drill rig hammer, and drill into various types of rock.
Two researchers observing effects of heat on the drill rig hammerTwo researchers observing effects of heat on the drill rig hammer

Laser Application Facility (LAZAP)
LAZAP tests and calibrates U.S. reconnaissance and Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites. The facility propagates visible high-powered lasers of multiple wavelengths through the atmosphere with a large aperture beam director.
High-powered laser directed at the sky at dusk

Mechanical Shock Complex
The Mechanical Shock Complex provides tailored impact environments, such as shock and crush. The complex simulates dynamic environments such as weapon delivery, severe accident, and pyroshock.
Two researchers holding Davis Gun to prepare for a test

Mobile Gun Test Complex
The MGTC is a set of mobile projectile launch systems (guns) used to test a variety of projectiles and/or targets. The MGTC enables investigation of terminal ballistic events into in-situ geologies or engineered targets.
Davis gun in mid launch

National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF)
Operated by Sandia for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF) is the only large-scale concentrating solar power (CSP) and solar thermal test facility in the United States.
Tower surrounded by large mirrors

Photovoltaic System Evaluation Laboratory (PSEL)
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

Primary Standards Laboratory (PSL)
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)
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

Rocket Sled Track
The sled track provides a controlled environment for high-velocity impact, aerodynamic, acceleration, and other related testing for both small and large test items.
Worker prepares for a test at the Rocket Sled Track.
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