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Sandia and AMD collaborate to tackle memory bottlenecks in next‑generation GPU designs
October 12, 2026 • Sandia National Laboratories announced a continued collaboration with AMD as part of the NNSA’s Advanced Simulation and Computing Advanced Memory Technology (AMT) program. This collaborative research and development agreement, led by Sandia in partnership with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory, will work with AMD to investigate...

Shielding future fusion reactors: DIII-D’s testing of advanced plasma-facing materials
September 21, 2026 • Research at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility addresses a critical need for materials that can survive the punishing environment inside a future Fusion Pilot Plant, an energy source with major implications for long-term national security and energy resilience. Over the first year of a two-year campaign, researchers used a specialized...

New method supports safer, more reliable flight control for hypersonic vehicles
September 21, 2026 • Hypersonic vehicles experience extreme aerodynamic forces and intense heating. Knowing those forces in real time is important for national security because it supports safer, more reliable flight control, helps prevent structural failure, and improves the ability to assess vehicle health during missions. A team of researchers from Sandia and The...
hypersonic rocket launch

Sandia researchers examine chemistry in areas that help improve the safety, reliability, and performance of technologies involved in national security
August 24, 2026 • Sandia researchers examined how “cold” electrons, which have very little energy, can cause certain molecules made of nitrogen and oxygen such as N₂O₃ and N₂O₄ to break apart. These molecules are important to chemistry that occurs in high‐energy environments such as plasmas, combustion chambers, and atmospheric re-entry flows. Examining the...

Predicting Arctic shoreline loss to protect critical infrastructure and security
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,...
Alaskan sunrise

DOE’s next-generation climate model empowers national security planning
August 24, 2026 • The Energy Exascale Earth System Model version 3 (E3SMv3), developed by Sandia researchers and collaborators as part of a large national lab effort, is a state-of-the-science tool designed to advance our understanding of the Earth and energy systems. This model simulates interactions between the atmosphere, land, rivers, oceans, and sea...

Rapid, high-fidelity turbulent combustion modeling for next-generation defense engines
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...

Tunable quantum metasurface for scalable secure quantum technologies
August 24, 2026 • A team including researchers at Sandia’s Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies and Microsystems and Engineering Sciences Application (MESA) Complex developed a tunable optical metasurface that improves how much light is emitted from embedded Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) quantum dots (QDs) and at what wavelength this light is emitted. The QDs produce single...
MESA building at dusk

Fortifying fire control algorithms for cooperative hypersonic target prediction and interception
May 13, 2026 • Side-by-side comparison of aimpoint selection methods including traditional, literature-based, and Sandia’s multi-hypothesis approach for defending an asset from a hypersonic threat. (Click image to expand) Hypersonic weapons pose a challenge to missile defense systems due to their extreme speed, unpredictable maneuvers, and aimpoint ambiguity. To meet this threat, Sandia Laboratory...

Developing new and improved safety technology for nuclear weapons
May 13, 2026 • Two B61-12 joint test assemblies loaded on an F-35 aircraft for a flight test on Aug. 19, 2025. (Photo by Craig Fritz) The Time-Resolved Elastodynamic Discrimination (TRUE-D) Laboratory Directed Research & Development project is focused on improving safety systems for new nuclear weapons, with the goal of making them more...

Extreme environments: Sandia is ready
May 13, 2026 • Accelerating real-time AI with advanced analog in-memory computing Sandia LDRD researchers have developed tools to go from the invention of new computing devices to application-level performance estimates. (Click image to expand) Sandia is advancing computing capabilities in environments where traditional digital systems struggle, such as space missions exposed to radiation....

Facing radiation challenges head on
May 13, 2026 • Evolving semiconductor technology for national security applications Silicon wafers serve as the foundationalsubstrate in semiconductor production. With the goal of enhancing the reliability and performance of microelectronics in the face of radiation challenges, Laboratory Directed Research & Development researchers have made significant strides in developing non-volatile, radiation-hard ferroelectric memory using...

Sandia and NVIDIA explore new advanced memory architectures
May 5, 2026 • Figure 1a. Traditional 2.5D Integration. Traditional 2.5D designs place components side-by-side, resulting in long distance data transmission that increases power consumption and limits bandwidth scaling. While easier to cool, this horizontal layout creates large physical footprints and energy bottlenecks that challenge post-exascale performance. Figure 1b. Advanced 3D Integration. Advanced 3D...

Decades of innovation: Sandia’s role in modern chips and AI
April 7, 2026 • Microchips are a cornerstone of daily life—from laptops and phones to the appliances in kitchens – nearly every technological device relied on now includes a tiny microchip and its circuits. However, despite our reliance on the technology, few know how a team from Sandia, and their partners at Lawrence Livermore...

From early R&D to mature technology
January 8, 2026 • Advancing memory technologies through strategic partnerships HARNESSING INNOVATION - This memory tester probe card with the landing zone for one of the instances of the stacked DRAM demonstrates both the manufactured material meeting the assembly and design objectives, as well as the automated tester equipment that aligns with standard memory...

The Advanced Memory Technology program kicks off round three with Cerebras
August 19, 2025 • THE TRI-LABS AND CEREBRAS MEET AT SANDIA – The program and team leads from Sandia, Los Alamos, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories convened at Sandia’s Computer Science Research Institute for a workshop to collaborate in person. (Photo provided by Sandia National Laboratories) Sandia, along with Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos...
Team leads from Sandia, Los Alamos, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories stand in front of Sandia’s Computer Science Research Institute for a workshop to collaborate in person. Twenty two individuals are photographed.

Krupa Ramasesha named Fulbright US Scholar
August 14, 2025 • The Department of State named chemist Krupa Ramasesha to the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program to Austria for the 2025-2026 academic year. During her time in Austria, Krupa will hold the Fulbright-NAWI Graz Visiting Professorship in the Natural Sciences at the Institute of Experimental Physics at Graz University of Technology. In this position,...

FY24 Hruby and Truman Postdoctoral Distinguished Fellows
August 14, 2025 • The Harry S. Truman Postdoctoral Fellowships and Jill Hruby Postdoctoral Fellowships are three-year distinguished positions at Sandia created to attract nationally recognized PhD scientists and engineers. They each conduct groundbreaking research that support Sandia's national security mission. Hruby Fellow Samantha Jaszewski (top right) is researching computer memory based on ferroelectric...

Rich Lehoucq chosen as Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematical Fellow
August 13, 2025 • Rich Lehoucq was chosen as a SIAM Fellow for his significant contributions to the fields of applied mathematics, computational science, and data science. His work spans nonlocal modeling, numerical linear algebra, continuum mechanics, and the applications of probability to optimization and high dimensional data analysis. Lehoucq’s innovative approach to extending...

Four Sandia researchers win PECASE awards in 2024
August 13, 2025 • The Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and engineers beginning their independent careers. The PECASE awards aim to encourage innovation, raise awareness about careers in science and engineering, and connect research with national goals.Four Sandia...

Hongyou Fan awarded Materials Research Society Medal
August 13, 2025 • Sandia researcher Hongyou Fan was awarded the prestigious 2024 Materials Research Society (MRS) Medal, recognizing his innovative approach to synthesizing nanomaterials using pressure instead of traditional chemical solutions. The MRS Medal is the society’s highest accolade, celebrating significant advances expected to greatly impact progress in materials science. His work is...

DOE Office of Science Early Career Research Program Awards
August 13, 2025 • Sandia scientists Mitchell Wood (left) and Gianluca Geraci (right) received 2024 DOE Office of Science Early Career Research Program awards. Each will receive $2.75 million over five years to support their research in Fusion Energy Sciences and Advanced Scientific Computing Research. They were selected from a competitive pool of applicants,...

Accelerating navigation algorithms
July 14, 2025 • Thinking creatively about rotations, the team discovered new numerical methods for solving differential equations on rotation groups with increased precision. Here, Mike Walker (left), Daniel Foreman (center), and Michael Sparapany (right) spin toy tops. (Photo by Jennifer Sanderson) One Laboratory Directed Research & Development (LDRD) team took on a critical...
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