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HelioVolt Modules Installed at RTC Sites 15 Aug 2013 | 04:12 am
The HelioVolt PV array installed at the Sandia RTC site. (Photo credit: Charles Robinson) HelioVolt, Sandia National Laboratories, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and the Florida Solar Ener...
Sandia Participation in the 39th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists (PVSC) Conference 15 Aug 2013 | 12:00 am
Matthew Reno presented a new method to streamline the interconnection study process by simplifying the complex system to an equivalent representation of the feeder with fewer buses while maintaining f...
Sandia Researchers Score MRS “Outstanding” Rating Two Years Running 8 Aug 2013 | 04:11 am
We developed a simple and economic coating process through interfacial self-‐assembly of polymers and nanoparticles as an alternative to conventional CVD and sputter-‐deposited optical films. Throug...
Climate Change Is the Subject of a New Book 1 Aug 2013 | 08:56 pm
A new book, Assessment of Climate Change in the Southwest United States (published by Island Press), was released in May 2013. Vince Tidwell (Earth Systems Analysis Dept.) was the lead contributing a...
Sandia and Los Alamos Teams Gear Up for Hurricane Season 1 Aug 2013 | 08:45 pm
National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center (NISAC) teams of infrastructure modelers and analysts, such as this one, work to provide a crisis response to the Department of Homeland Security...
2013 Electricity Storage Handbook Published 31 Jul 2013 | 10:54 pm
The sodium-sulfur battery installation provided by NGK Insulators, Ltd., (deployed at Xcel in Lucerne, Minnesota, in 2008) to supplement wind-turbine generation contains 20 50-kW modules with 7.2 MWh ...
Sandia and Atlas-Copco Secoroc Advance to Phase 2 in Their Geothermal Energy Project 31 Jul 2013 | 08:16 pm
Phase 1 drill bit button retention testing. In 2012, the partnership between Sandia and Atlas-Copco Secoroc was awarded a $3.4M DOE grant to develop a down-the-hole (DTH) hammer capable of low-cost, ...
Coupling Local to Nonlocal Continuum Models 30 Jul 2013 | 04:10 am
The predicted strain field in the stretching of a 1-D elastic bar. The bar is partitioned into local and nonlocal subregions. With the new coupling method, there is zero error in the transition region...
Three-Dimensional Graphene Architectures 30 Jul 2013 | 04:04 am
Scanning electron microscope images of the effect of temperature on the platinum nanostructure on the 3-D graphene substrates: (A) 25 °C and (B) 70 °C. The mechanical strength and electron mobility ...
Jerry Simmons Is One of Three Researchers Named as Laboratory Fellows 30 Jul 2013 | 03:58 am
Newly appointed Sandia Fellows Jerry Simmons (left), Ed Cole (center), and John Rowe gather outside Sandia’s Joint Computational Engineering Laboratory. (Photo by Randy Montoya) This status is reserv...
