AMPL provides extensive expertise in the areas of manufacturing research and development, as well as advanced engineering and prototyping capabilities.
Advanced Manufacturing Processing Lab (AMPL)
Facilities
Current Filters
Clear all
Advanced Materials Laboratory (AML)
AML focuses on ceramics, porous materials, catalysts, electronic materials, materials synthesis, and advanced manufacturing research.
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...
Aerial Cable Facility (ACF)
The ACF is a unique capability for simulating drop and high-velocity impact testing combining a breadth of instrumentation.
Annular Core Research Reactor (ACRR)
ACRR is used to test objects in a mixed photon and neutron irradiation environment. Researchers conduct a wide variety of experiments in nearly every branch of nuclear science.
Applied Biosciences Lab (ABL)
The ABL located in Livermore, CA focuses on energy security, confronting the risks of global warming and biosecurity research focused on reducing threats from infectious diseases and biological weapons.
Auxiliary Hot Cell Facility (AHCF)
The AHCF is a nuclear facility used to characterize, treat, and repackage radioactive and mixed material and waste for reuse, recycling, or ultimate disposal.
Battery Abuse Testing Laboratory (BATLab)
The BATLab is an internationally recognized leader in energy storage system safety research.
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.
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.
Center for Computing Research
The CCR work includes computer system architecture (both hardware and software); enabling technology for modeling physical and engineering systems; and research in discrete mathematics, data analytics, cognitive modeling, and decision support materials.
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.
Computer Science Research Institute (CSRI)
CSRI brings university faculty and students to Sandia for focused collaborative research on Department of Energy computer and computational science problems.
Control and Optimization of Networked Energy Technologies (CONET) Laboratory
Researchers at the CONET Laboratory conduct research, development, and testing on networked and distributed systems.
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.
Facility for Acceptance, Calibration, and Testing (FACT Site)
The FACT site provides the equipment and seismically quiet surroundings required for testing infrasound and seismic sensors, instrumentation, and monitoring systems.
Gamma Irradiation Facility (GIF)
The GIF provides high-fidelity simulation of nuclear radiation environments for materials and component testing.
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.
Integrated Materials Research Laboratory (IMRL)
IMRL integrates research from atomic scale to full scale components, investigates organic materials, advanced alloys, electronic and photonic semiconductors, high temperature superconductors, ceramics, quantum systems, and laser, optical and dielectric materials.
Ion Beam Laboratory (IBL)
The IBL enables scientists to study and modify materials systems using ion and electron accelerators.
Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI)
JBEI is a DOE Bioenergy Research Center dedicated to developing advanced biofuels—liquid fuels derived from the solar energy stored in plant biomass that can replace gasoline, diesel, and jet fuels.
Joint Test Assembly (JTA)
JTA program allows critical assessment of weapon systems, Department of Defense (DOD) platforms, and support personnel performance.
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.
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.
Micro and Nano Technologies Laboratories (MANTL)
MANTL comprises four buildings with office and lab space and Sandia’s Plating Research Laboratory. MANTL research focuses on mechanical and electrical engineering, chemistry, radiography plating, and more.
Results 1–25 of 38