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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...

Leveraging machine learning to refine material models for fusion applications
July 14, 2025 • To enable future innovative designs for fusion platforms on the Z machine, a Sandia LDRD team developed an automated framework for constructing material models. This directly addressed the challenge of creating comprehensive material models that can leverage machine learning and integrate data from multi-fidelity datasets, something vital for uncertainty quantification...

Improving assurance of high-consequence systems using formal methods and automated reasoning 
July 14, 2025 • Error from imperfect computer representations of numbers when visualizing a sphere at 1km and 20,000km distance from an observer. Computers typically represent numbers one of two ways: fixed-point (via integers) and floating-point numbers. Floating point provides improved efficiency and productivity, but errors can accumulate if not managed carefully. Error from...

Advancing understanding of acoustic signals in underground tunnel structures
July 14, 2025 • Sandia researchers are using remote data to determine the structure of underground tunnels. Specifically, their research focuses on understanding acoustic resonance in these structures, specifically how changes in tunnel configurations affect the acoustic signals observed from a distance. The potential benefits of this work were presented in May 2024 at...

Advancing turbulence models for hypersonic flows using machine learning 
July 14, 2025 • Sandia researchers utilized machine learning techniques to address the limitations of Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) turbulence models in predicting hypersonic turbulent flows, with a particular emphasis on inaccuracies in wall heating predictions for flows involving shock boundary layer interactions. This research has led to the development of neural-network-based machine learned turbulence...

Confirming dismantlement of nuclear warheads while protecting sensitive information
July 14, 2025 • When it comes to nuclear arms control, verification is essential. By detecting unique metastable radionuclide signatures in non-nuclear material disposition pathways, an LDRD research team created a reliable verification measure to confirm dismantlement of nuclear warheads without disclosing sensitive information. Researcher Peter Marleau led an LDRD team that developed a...

Developing engineered probiotics to combat respiratory infections
July 14, 2025 • Sandia researchers are focused on protecting soldiers and citizens from biological threats by creating innovative solutions to prevent and treat infectious diseases, especially those affecting the respiratory system. Advances in synthetic biology have led to the concept of “living countermeasures,” where cells are genetically engineered to act as sensors and...

Brain-based computing for ND solutions
June 4, 2025 • New neuromorphic computing system arrives at Sandia THE HARDWARE BEHIND THE BRAIN — NERL Braunfels consists of three chassis, or frames, each capable of holding up to 18 boards with 48 chips on each board. Photo by Craig Fritz. As artificial intelligence-capable computing systems continue to evolve, so do challenges facing...

Improving understanding of microbial roles in permafrost carbon release
June 2, 2025 • As permafrost thaws, it exposes ancient organic matter that microbes can use as fuel. This process contributes to the release of gases like carbon dioxide, methane (CH₄) and volatile organic compounds (VOCs). In areas like the Yedoma permafrost, which holds large amounts of frozen organic material, the formation of thermokarst...

Accelerating phase field simulations to understand liquid-metal dealloying
March 3, 2025 • Liquid metal dealloying. The initial species fields (cA and cB at t=0) are contaminated with low-amplitude random white noise (left fields). Given the chaotic nature of the dealloying process, the initial noise perturbation eventually leads to widely different solid phase fields at late time (e.g., right fields, at t=6⁢μs, after 6 million time steps). When...

Imaging gas-phase methyl radicals
March 3, 2025 • Positive and negative correlations of measured gas-phase methyl and formaldehyde with predicted surface coverages Scientists at Sandia are studying how certain chemical reactions happen on surfaces, especially when using special techniques that allows them to see what is occurring while the reactions are taking place. This is important because many...

Stability of disconnections in solute atmosphere
March 3, 2025 • Disconnections, such as the disconnection dipole shown here from relaxed molecular dynamics simulations, are found on many grain boundaries and postulated to regulate boundary mobility. (b) An atomic-scale map of the segregation energy of dilute Ag atoms in a Cu matrix illustrating a zone of strong segregation (blue) for preferred...

Enhancing metasurface performance potential
March 3, 2025 • By rotating the 𝐶3 symmetry breaking deformation ( 𝜑), the angular positions of the Dirac points and the corresponding polarization singularities for both bands can be controlled. New uses for metasurfaces in both regular and quantum optics are creating a need for better control over how light is polarized, especially...

Deeper insight into radiation-formed defects
March 3, 2025 • Scientists at Sandia have created a new way to create atomic structures that show the important features of different materials. In the past, scientists could only recreate certain characteristics, like how atoms are arranged in a random mixture, using small crystal structures. Now, they have introduced a new method called...

Lignin processing with machine learning approaches
March 3, 2025 • The schematic diagram for screening of solvents for lignin dissolution. Using ionic liquids (IL) to break down and make use of lignin is really important for creating eco-friendly energy sources and a sustainable economy. Scientists at Sandia, who are part of the Joint Bioenergy Institute (JBEI), are looking closely at...
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