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By John Fleck
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Tuesday, 05 May 2009 15:19 |
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 Sandia National Laboratories officials have totaled up their share of 46 research grants announced last week by the Department of Energy, and think they will get about $40 million over the next five year, working on eight of the 46 grants.
The trio in the picture on the right - (l-r Jerry Simmons, Michael Coltrin, and Jeff Tsao, photo courtesy Sandia) - will work on the biggest grant, $18 million over five years to develop better solid-state lighting. Traditional incandescent bulbs are about 5 percent efficient, and the Sandia team has published results suggesting it may be possible to get that number up to 70 percent. (See here for some background on the team's work.)
According to Julia Phillips, who heads up Sandia's science work, the money for the light and seven other projects done jointly with other institutions will provide an important shot in the arm for Sandia's science base at a time when funding from the nuclear weapons program is expected to decline. Sandia's summary of the energy grants, in a press release sent out today, illustrates the approach laid out by Sandia Vice President Joan Woodard in a recent interview. In this case, as has often been the case at Sandia, the research strategy is to work on a lot of different projects with a lot of different institutions.
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