The Power Sources Technology Group (PSTG) group provides comprehensive capabilities in power source research, design, engineering, characterization, evaluation, and testing.
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Center for Integrated Nanotechnology (CINT)
CINT is a DOE/Office of Science NSRC user facility devoted to scientific principles that govern nanoscale materials.
Combustion Research Facility (CRF)
The CRF responds to the nation’s evolving energy challenges with ever increasing expertise and capacity aimed at improving our nation’s ability to use and control combustion processes.
Design, Evaluation and Test Technology Facility
The Design, Evaluation and Test Technology Facility focuses on simulating a wide range of environments for component and system testing.
Distributed Energy Technology Laboratory (DETL)
DETL is a multipurpose research facility designed to integrate emerging energy technologies into new and existing electricity infrastructure to accommodate the nation’s increasing demands for clean, secure, and reliable energy.
Engineering Sciences Experimental Facilities (ESEF)
The ESEF focuses on advanced diagnostics and fundamental experiments. Researchers seek to improve understanding of phenomena in areas of fluid flow, heat transfer, and aerodynamics.
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 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.
Geomechanics Laboratory
The Geomechanics Laboratory enables researchers to measure rock properties under a wide range of simulated environmental conditions, including high-pressure and complex load paths
Materials Science and Engineering Center (MSE)
MSE provides knowledge of materials structure, properties, and performance and the processes to produce, transform, and analyze materials.
Mechanical Test and Evaluation Facility
The Mechanical Test and Evaluation Facility conducts experimental research and develops diagnostics to study the mechanical behavioral of materials.
Microsystems Engineering, Science and Applications (MESA)
MESA integrates scientific disciplines to produce functional, robust, integrated microsystems. Today researchers pursue advanced concepts that integrate not only electronics at the micro scale, but embody sensors, photonics, and MEMS components.
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.
Nuclear Facilities Resource Center (NUFAC)
NUFAC provides designing, operating, and experimentation with nuclear reactors.
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.
Plasma Research Facility (PRF)
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.
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.
Quantum Scientific Computing Open User Testbed (QSCOUT)
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.
Shock Thermodynamic Applied Research Facility (STAR)
The STAR facility provides a full range of pressure (bars to multi-Mbar) for material property study utilizing gas/propellant launchers, ramp-loading pulsers, and ballistic applications.
Utqiagvik Arctic Research Facility
The Utqiagvik facility supports instrumentation built specifically for the Arctic to obtain continuous measurements of clouds, aerosols, precipitation, energy, and other meteorological variables.