STE Highlights 2022
Science, Technology & Engineering Highlights feature awards and noteworthy scientific achievements at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
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January 2022
- Quantum light source offers new possibilities for communications and computing
- Hybrid, scalable, trace-driven performance modeling of GPGPUs
- Electron vacuum laser acceleration using relativistic transparency injection
- Alkali metal alkoxides in Noyori-type hydrogenations
- Observing magnetoelastic standing waves in uranium dioxide
February 2022
- Bredeweg elected vice chair of Nuclear Data Working Group
- Progress on understanding radioactive gas migration from underground nuclear explosions
- Chemical Certification & Compatibility Laboratory (C3Lab) capabilities
- Report describes Laboratory research and development contributions to pandemic response
- High-quality quasi-2D perovskite crystalline layers integrated in detectors for X-ray imaging
- Clues about unconventional superconductivity from high-field Hall data
April 2022
- Controlled potential coulometry for plutonium assay
- High-quality thermal Gibbs sampling with quantum annealing hardware
- Programmable quantum annealers as noisy Gibbs samplers
- ECCE detector design selected for Electron-Ion Collider
- Special journal issue commemorates NCERC 10-year anniversary
- Topological magnon band structure of emergent Landau levels in a skyrmion lattice
June 2022
- Wang to serve on ANS division executive committee
- Tunes recognized for ion beam modification of materials accomplishments
- Helping undergraduates develop science literacy
- New insights into nuclear matter probed in neutron stars
- First plutonium sample via FIB-SEM achieved for the NNMA program
- New method developed for nanoscale materials characterization
- New additive manufacturing capability installed at C-CDE
August 2022
- DOE postdoctoral recognition earned by MPA researchers
- Bourne selected as 2023 LANSCE Rosen Scholar
- Laboratory researcher chairs international leadership conference
- Los Alamos-Texas A&M Collaborative Research Program awards announced
- Study illuminates Mars methane transmission from subsurface depths that could indicate microbial source
- New review explores advances and frontiers in fractured rock science
- ClusterVQE algorithm offers quantum parallel approach for quantum chemistry simulations
- Breakthrough accuracy in semi-empirical quantum chemistry via deep learning
