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Miguel Jimenez Aparicio
Staff Page • Senior Member of Technical Staff. Biography Miguel Jimenez Aparicio is a Senior Member of Technical Staff in the Electric Power Systems Research Department at Sandia National Laboratories. His research focuses on fast, signal-based protection for distribution systems under scenarios of high renewable energy penetration. Miguel is also involved on the...

Mobile Instrumentation Data Acquisition System (MIDAS)
Facility • Sandia created the Mobile Instrumentation Data Acquisition System (MIDAS) to provide on-site data acquisition and analysis capabilities for testing of radioactive and hazardous materials packages. MIDAS allows researchers, designers, and regulators to examine and understand how a package behaves in a variety of environments. MIDAS is exceptionally consistent and widely trusted throughout...

Modeling
Page • Informed policy and decision-making related to the Arctic requires better understanding of this complex region. Achieving this understanding depends on not only increasing the amount of data available for analysis, but also improving existing Earth system models—efforts that call for a coordination across multiple disciplines. What We Do Sandia’s climate...

Modeling, data opportunities available for photovoltaic performance and modeling community
News Article, July 28, 2023 • The Photovoltaic (PV) Performance and Modeling Collaborative (PVPMC) has announced several upcoming solar research opportunities that may be of interest to the PVPMC community, including PV modeling comparisons and the chance to participate in the Department of Energy’s Solar Data Bounty Prize. 2023 Blind PVPMC Modeling Comparison Call for Participants:...
A researcher stands among a field of photovoltaic solar panels

Molten salt facility awarded $2.5M to restart testing 
News Article, June 16, 2025 • Concentrating solar thermal power and nuclear industries may soon have a safe, reliable, radiation-free environment to test components in flowing, molten nitrate salts. The U.S. Department of Energy's Solar Energy Technologies Office awarded $2.5 million in funding to Sandia to restart the Molten Salt Test Loop facility at the National...
Images of Principal Investigator Ken Armijo standing by the Molten Salt Test Loop at the National Solar Thermal Test Facility in Albuquerque, NM.

Molten Salts and Materials Testing
Page • Molten Salts and Materials Testing The National Solar Thermal Testing Facility is a leader in advanced molten salt testing, achieving world record temperatures of up to 750° Celsius. The NSTTF boasts the world's largest molten salt research and development test loop supporting both concentrating solar power and industrial processes. Currently,...

Nathan Schroeder
Staff Page • R&D Mechanical Engineer. Biography Nathan Schroeder is an R&D Mechanical Engineer working at the National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF). Nathan is involved in Gen 3 particle- based acquisition and controls systems. He has conducted over 200 hours of falling particle receiver test operation as part of the Generation 3...

Nathaniel deVelder
Staff Page • Postdoctoral Researcher. Biography Nathaniel deVelder is a postdoctoral researcher in the Wind Energy Computational Sciences Department at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM. He holds a master’s of science and PhD from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, where he worked jointly in the Wind Energy Center and the Theoretical and Computational...

National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center (NISAC)
Facility • The National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center (NISAC) is a modeling, simulation, and analysis program within the Department of Homeland Security comprising personnel in the Washington, D.C., area, as well as from Sandia National Laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. NISAC prepares and shares analyses of...

National Security
Page • National Security Solutions to National Security Technology Barriers With our deep understanding of wind technology and national security, we quantify barriers and identify pathways to technical solutions. Sandia leads efforts to reduce barriers through: Wind turbine radar interference research and interagency teaming for on- and offshore wind farms Radar interference...
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