Sandia Labs FY21 LDRD Annual Report

FY21 ANNUAL REPORT

2021 Federal Laboratory Consortium Mid-Continent Regional Awards Sandia won three 2021 Federal Laboratory Consortium Mid-Continent Regional awards, two with roots in LDRD.

Excellence in Technology Transfer Award

MIRaGE, a futuristic design tool for metamaterials. This research, rooted in a metamaterials science and technology Grand Challenge LDRD project, designs a metamaterial with comparable properties using scientific knowledge developed from molecular spectroscopy on how the symmetry of a natural molecule affects its optical behavior and properties. MIRaGE (PI: Ihab El-Kady) Watch the YouTube video.

Examples of 3D tiling options of metamaterial unit cells in MIRaGE.

Notable Technology Awards Binary solvent diffusion for large nanoparticle supercrystals. This project (rooted in LDRD) uses nanotechnology and chemistry to turn gold nanoparticles into supercrystals for optoelectronics, photovoltaics, and surface catalysis. (PI Hongyou Fan) Watch the YouTube video.

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