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The WaveBot goes to Carderock
News Article, February 21, 2024 • The WaveBot, a scale-model wave energy converter (WEC), bobs up and down in the water as researchers cluster around a row of monitors in the control room of the largest wave tank in the United States. This is the WaveBot’s fourth trip to the U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock...
The WaveBot at the U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division Maneuvering and Seakeeping Basin (MASK) in Bethesda, Maryland.

There goes the sun: annular solar eclipse
News Article, October 20, 2023 • Glimpse phases of the annular solar eclipse as it passes Sandia’s National Solar Thermal Test Facility in Albuquerque on Oct. 14. The first photograph includes multiple exposures as the sun and moon traveled left to right, as well as an exposure without the eclipse. The second photograph comprises multiple exposures...
a mirrored heliostat reflects the phases of the 2023 solar eclipse.

Thermal Energy Storage
Page • Thermal Energy Storage The National Solar Thermal Test Facility excels in the research and development of heat transfer fluids and thermal energy storage systems. Thermal energy storage has a number of benefits, including high-energy density, low costs, a readily available media storage, the ability to deliver heat and electricity, and...

Thermal Energy Storage 2
Page • The National Solar Thermal Test Facility focuses its efforts on researching and developing thermal energy storage systems for industrial heat processes. Thermal Energy Storage 2 Thermal energy storage has a number of benefits, including high-energy density, low costs, a readily available media storage, the ability to deliver heat and electricity,...

Thermal Test Complex
Facility • The Thermal Test Complex (TTC) is an international resource for validation of fire physics models as well as the nuclear weapons complex hardware qualification facility for fires. Experimental fire research, validated modeling tools, and phenomenological model development capabilities form the basis of an integrated capability to solve high-consequence problems in fire prevention,...

Thomas Herges
Staff Page • Instrumentation & Aeronautical Engineer. Biography Tommy Herges leads instrumentation development activities for wind plant field campaigns in the Wind Energy Computational Sciences Department at Sandia National Laboratories. He has been a member of the Wind Energy Technologies department since 2013, where he has worked on advanced laser velocity measurements and...

Threat and Impact Modeling
Page • Sandia’s threat modeling work focuses on characterizing the wide-ranging impacts from natural hazards on our infrastructure sectors. Threats serve as the key input to resilience analysis, and accurate assessment of system performance depends on a knowledge of what is likely to go wrong when a disruption occurs. The threats are...

Thushara Gunda
Staff Page • Complex Systems Analyst. Biography Thushara Gunda is a Principal Member of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories. Her research portfolio focuses on data-driven decision making in complex systems, including water resources, energy, and security domains. Leveraging insights from interdisciplinary perspective is a key distinguishing feature of Thushara’s work. Her research...

Tim Riley
Staff Page • CEP, CSP, PMP. Biography Timothy G. (Tim) Riley began his professional journey as a helicopter crew chief in the U.S. Air Force and has been passionate about all things that fly or rotate ever since. Following his military service, Tim went on to enjoy an incredible 23-year career in NASA’s...

Timotius Oentung
Staff Page • R&D S&E, Cybersecurity. Biography Timotius Oentung currently works as a Research and Development (R&D) Software and Engineering (S&E) staff member for the Resilient Energy and Distributed System Integration (RDSI) organization. Prior to joining Sandia, he graduated with an MS in Cybersecurity and Privacy from the University of Central Florida with...

Todd Monson
Staff Page • Physicist. Biography Todd Monson is a Principal Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories, where for the past fifteen years his research has focused primarily on the synthesis and characterization of ferromagnetic and ferroelectric nanomaterials for energy related applications. Todd holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in physics from...

Tools
Page • Tools Browse select computational codes, data sets, models, software, tools, and toolkits from Sandia National Laboratories' energy programs Arctic Science & Security For software developed at Sandia that covers a variety of applications related to research in the Arctic, please visit the Arctic Software page. Search licensable technologies, patents, applications, and...

Tower-based power systems
Page • Tower-based power systems Solar Tower​ One Commissioned in 1978, the original 200-foot Solar Tower at the National Solar Thermal Test Facility provides 218 computer-controlled heliostats to reflect concentrated solar energy onto the tower, producing a total thermal capacity of 6 megawatts and peak flux up to 300 watts per square...

Transportation & Fuels
Page • Transportation & Fuels Advancing affordable, available, and efficient energy use for America’s energy future Foundational physical and computational research at Sandia helps to accelerate innovation in transportation and fuels. Our research programs span multiple transportation modes, including passenger automobiles, heavy-duty freight, off-road machinery, marine, rail, and aviation, while also investigating...

Travis Anderson
Staff Page • Chemist. Biography Travis M. Anderson is a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories. He received his B.S degree in Chemistry from Mercer University in 1997 and his Ph.D. degree in Inorganic Chemistry from Emory University in 2002. His research interests include synthetic inorganic chemistry, battery materials...

Tu Nguyen
Staff Page • Electrical Engineer, Analytics & Controls Lead. Biography Tu A. Nguyen is a Principal Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories. He is also a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and an editor of IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy. He received his B.S...

Two Sandia researchers elected to National Academy of Engineering
News Article, April 15, 2024 • Tina Nenoff and Babu Chalamala recognized for contributions to engineering Two Sandia National Laboratories researchers, Tina Nenoff and Babu Chalamala, have been elected as members of the prestigious National Academy of Engineering. They are among the 114 new members and 21 international members to be inducted as the class of 2024....

Two Sandians honored with 2024 Women in Tech Award
News Article, June 27, 2024 • Two Sandia National Laboratories employees have been honored with the 2024 New Mexico Women in Tech Award from the New Mexico Technology Council. The award recognizes remarkable women who drive innovation and excellence in their tech field and inspire and empower others to pursue careers in the tech industry. Mary Monson If...
Mary Monson, senior manager of Technology Partnerships and Business Development at Sandia National Laboratories, accepts an award from the New Mexico Technology Council on March 13 for her immense impact on tech transfer at Sandia. (Photo by DeAnna Vincent)

U.S. High Arctic Research Center (USHARC)
Facility • Sandia and the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) have teamed up to advance the concept of a permanent, comprehensive multi-agency U.S. High Arctic Research Center (USHARC) in the Prudhoe Bay area. Sandia and UAF are actively engaging federal agencies, academic institutions, non-governmental organizations, and international partners to support its development. Visit the...

Ujjwol Tamrakar
Staff Page • Electrical Engineer. Biography Ujjwol Tamrakar received the B.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from Tribhuvan University, Nepal, in 2011, and the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from South Dakota State University (SDSU), Brookings, SD, USA, in 2015. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from SDSU in 2020 and is currently...

Ultrafast beam-steering breakthrough at Sandia Labs
News Article, March 28, 2023 •  In a major breakthrough in the fields of nanophotonics and ultrafast optics, a Sandia National Laboratories research team has demonstrated the ability to dynamically steer light pulses from conventional, so-called incoherent light sources. This ability to control light using a semiconductor device could allow low-power, relatively inexpensive sources like LEDs...
Two researchers stand adjacent to optical equipment emitting red light in a lab

Using SimAutoWrapper with Python and PowerWorld
Page • A one-day class for those familiar with Power World and with power system dynamics experience on any platform. Date Wednesday, June 17th, 2026 8:00am – 5:00pm Location Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM Building 6585 Rm 111/112 Cost Free Space is limited to 40 people Register by email to rguttro@sandia.gov no...
An abstract 3D render of a light blue circuit board, with many electrical components installed. Components are labelled with made-up serial numbers and placed on a white grid, with white circuit lines running among them.

Using the power of the sun to roast green chile
News Article, July 7, 2022 • Greener approach to a New Mexican staple opens possibilities for sustainable food roasting Sandia National Laboratories engineer Kenneth Armijo, who grew up on a chile farm in Sabinal, located between Albuquerque and Socorro, New Mexico, thought there was a “greener” way to roast green chile. The results of his experiments...

Using words to look for glitches
News Article, December 3, 2025 • Large language models as a tool to improve electric grid security Georgios Fragkos presenting his paper at the conference. Detecting anomalies in the electric grid using artificial intelligence could be an effective way to improve the grid’s security and performance. Anomalies, or glitches, can happen in the grid due to...
A man in a suit stands in front of a projected image of a Representation Model of Generative AI

Using X-ray science to hit hydrogen storage targets
News Article, November 7, 2023 • Using soft X-ray techniques available through Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source (ALS), a Sandia team including Mark Allendorf and Farid El Gabaly with collaborators from the Hydrogen Materials Advanced Research Consortium (HyMARC) are probing the chemistry of promising hydrogen storage materials to understand how they absorb and release hydrogen. The...
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