National Laboratories:
Profiles and Contacts
Ames Laboratory
Core Competencies
- Materials
design, synthesis, and processing
- Analytical
instrumentation/device design/fabrication
- Condensed
matter theory (including photonic band gap and other novel
materials)
- Materials
characterization, x-ray and neutron scattering, solid-state Nuclear Magnetic
Resonance (NMR),
spectroscopy/microscopy
- Separation
science
Major User
Facility
·
Materials Preparation Center, providing advanced materials to
industry, university, and government research centers
Contact
·
Debra Covey, (515)
294-1048, covey@ameslab.gov
Argonne National Laboratory
Core Competencies
- Fundamental
science and engineering expertise in materials sciences; chemistry; atomic,
high-energy and nuclear physics; multidisciplinary Nan
science and nanotechnology; structural biology, functional genomics, and
bioinformatics; environmental science and technology; and applied mathematics
and computer science
- Design,
construction, and operation of accelerator-based user facilities the enable
world-class research
- Design,
development, and evaluation of advanced nuclear energy systems and
proliferation-resistant nuclear fuel cycle technologies for a safe,
environmentally sound energy future
Major User
Facilities
- Advanced
Photon Source, DOE’s brightest hard x-ray source for multidisciplinary
research
- Argonne
Tandem-Linac Accelerator System, an important tool for research in nuclear
physics and astrophysics
- Intense Pulsed Neutron Source, a workhorse of the international neutron-scattering
community
Contacts
·
Cynthia Wesolowski, (630) 252-7694, weso@anl.gov
·
Karen Neumann, (630)
252-9124, kneumann@anl.gov
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Core Competencies
- Design, engineering,
and operation of accelerators, detectors, and superconducting magnets
- The physics of energy
and matter, the chemistry and physics of materials and condensed matters,
chemical energy sciences, bio-medical and imaging sciences, energy and
environmental sciences and technologies, and systems analysis and modeling
Major User facilities
- Relativistic
Heavy Ion Collider, the world’s newest accelerator for nuclear
physics
- National
Synchrotron Light Source, which provides researchers with intense light
spanning the electromagnetic spectrum from the infrared through
x-rays
- Alternating
Gradient Synchrotron, home of three Nobels and pivotal physics
discoveries
- Scanning
Transmission Electron Microscope, used to reveal the structure and
function of proteins, nucleic acids, and other macromolecules, and to image
single heavy atoms
- Accelerator
Test Facility, the U.S. proving ground for new concepts in accelerator
physics
- Booster
Applications Facility, designed to use heavy ion beams for space radiation
studies
- Center
for Functional Nanomaterials, now under construction, will provide
researchers with state-of-the-art capabilities to fabricate and study
nanoscale materials
Contacts
Fermi National Accelerator
Laboratory
Core Competencies
- Operation
of the world’s highest-energy physics user facility
- Accelerator
research, design, construction, and operation
- Superconducting
magnet research, design, and development
- Superconducting
Radio Frequency Accelerating Cavity research, design, and
development
- Particle detector design and
operation
- High-performance
computing and networking
- International
scientific collaboration
- Construction
and management of scientific and technical projects
- Scientific training and education, all
levels
Major User Facility
- The
Tevatron, the world’s highest-energy particle accelerator
Contact
Idaho National Laboratory
Core
Competencies
- Processing
and managing radioactive and hazardous materials
- Development,
modeling, testing, and validating engineered systems and processes
- Science
capabilities in subsurface geo-science and geochemistry
- Nuclear reactor design, reactor demonstration, and
reactor safety
Major User Facilities
- Safety
and Tritium Applied Research Facility, a multipurpose research and
development laboratory serving the needs of the fusion community for
bench-scale and engineering-scale experiments in the area of fusion energy
reactors
- Geocentrifuge Research Laboratory offering a
2-meter geocentrifuge that enables more accurate modeling of a wide range of
complex porous media, and advances the understanding of subsurface contaminant
transport
Contact
Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory
Core
Competencies
- Computational
science and engineering
- Particle
and photon beams
- Bioscience
and biotechnology
- Characterization,
synthesis, and theory of materials
- Advanced technologies for energy supply and energy
efficiency
- Chemical
dynamics, catalysis, and surface science
- Advanced
detector systems
- Environmental
assessment and remediation
Major User
Facilities
- Advanced
Light Source, a synchrotron radiation facility that generates intense
light for scientific and technological research
- National
Center for Electron Microscopy, a facility housing several of the
world’s most advanced microscopes and tools for microcharacterization of
materials
- National
Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, a world leader in
providing high-performance computing tools and expertise that enable
computational science of scale 88-Inch Cyclotron, a
variable-energy cyclotron that can produce heavy-ion beams of elements
throughout the periodic table
Contact
Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory
Core
Competencies
- Physical
Sciences
- Computational
Science and High-Performance Computing
- Biosciences
and Biotechnology
- Electronics
and Mechanical Engineering
- Global
and National Security
- Lasers
and Optics
- Chemistry,
Material, Earth and Life Sciences
- Energy
and Environmental Sciences
- National
Ignition Facility Project/Photon Science/Inertial Confinement
Fusion
Major User
Facilities
- National
Ignition Facility, the largest, most energetic laser in the
world
- Terascale
Simulation Facility houses two of the world’s fastest supercomputers
BlueGene/L and ASC Purple. These amazing machines, which perform
trillions of operations per second (teraflops), support Advanced Simulation
and Computing.
- Center
for Micro- and Nanotechnologies exists to invent, develop, and apply
microscale and nanoscale technologies to support LLNL missions and programs.
The research and capabilities of the Center cover materials, devices,
instruments, and systems that require microfabricated components, including
microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), electronics, photonics, micro- and
nanostructures, and micro- and nanoactuators.
- Forensic
Science Center housing a variety of state-of-the-art analytical
tools ranging from gas chromatograph–mass spectrometers to ultratrace chemical
and DNA techniques
- Center
for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry housing the most versatile and
productive accelerator mass spectrometry facility in the world
- Site 300 Experimental Test Facility, a high-explosives firing
facility
Contact
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Core
Competencies
- High-performance
computing
- New and
exotic advanced materials
- Bioscience
and biotechnology
- Earth
and environmental science
- Physics and theory
Major User
Facilities
LANL is home to more than 50
cross-disciplinary user facilities including:
- Los
Alamos Neutron Science Center, the nation’s most powerful source of pulsed
particles
- National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, a general user facility open to all
researchers who wish to perform experiments in high magnetic
fields
Contacts
- John Mott, LANL Technology Transfer contact: (505)
665-0883,
jmott@lanl.gov
- Shandra Clow, Small Business contact:
(505) 665-3049, clow@lanl.gov
National Renewable Energy
Laboratory
Core Competencies
- Renewable
electricity production and use
- Renewable
fuels formulation and use
- Integrated
energy system engineering and testing
- Strategic
energy analysis
Contact
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Core Competencies
- Neutron
science
- Energy
- High-performance
computing
- Systems
Biology
- Material
sciences at the nanoscale
- National
security
Major User Facilities
- Buildings
Technology
Center
- Californium
User Facility for Neutron Science
- Center
for Nanophase Materials Sciences
- Cooling,
Heating and Power Integration Laboratory
- Fuels,
Engines, and Emissions
Research
Center
- High
Flux Isotope Reactor
- High
Temperature Materials Laboratory
- Holifield
Radioactive Ion Beam Facility
- Metals-Processing
Laboratory Users Facility
- Mouse
Genetics Research Facility
- National
Center for
Computational Sciences
- National
Environmental Research
Park
- National
Transportation
Research
Center
- Oak
Ridge Linear Accelerator
- Power
Electronics and Electric Machinery Research Facility
- Shared
Research Equipment Collaborative
Research
Center
- Spallation
Neutron Source
- Safeguards
Laboratory
Contact
- Frank
Damiano, (865) 576-2967
Pacific Northwest National
Laboratory
Core
Competencies
- Microbial
and cellular biology
- Environmental
sciences
- Analytical
and interfacial chemical sciences
- Radiological
sciences
- Information
analytics
- Sensing
and measurement technologies
Major User Facilities
- William
R. Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, a U.S. Department of
Energy (DOE) national user facility, currently shared and used by researchers
from around the world. Research at EMSL focuses principally on developing a
molecular-level understanding of the physical, chemical, and biological
processes that underlie the most critical environmental issues facing DOE.
Located on PNNL’s campus.
- Applied
Process Engineering Laboratory is an eastern
Washington technology business
startup user facility, sponsored in part by PNNL. APEL provides engineering-
and manufacturing-scale space and chemical, biological, and electronic
laboratories and equipment for developing, validating, and commercializing new
products. Entrepreneurs, engineers, scientists, and university staff can
access this facility. PNNL scientists, engineers, and other professional staff
are available to APEL occupants for consulting, collaboration, or professional
support.
- Bioproducts,
Sciences, and Engineering Laboratory is a joint effort between WSU and PNNL.
Located on the WSU Tri-Cities campus in Richland, Washington, researchers will use the laboratory to
develop technology for converting low-value agricultural byproducts and
residues into value-added chemicals for products like plastics, solvents,
fibers, pharmaceuticals, and fuel additives.
Contact
Princeton Plasma Physics
Laboratory
Core
Competencies
- Experimental
analysis of stability and confinement of fusion plasmas
- Plasma
theory and computational physics for fusion and other applications
- Physics
and engineering design and operation of experimental plasma fusion
facilities
- Computer
engineering, including data acquisition, instrumentation, and control
systems
- Physics
and technology of plasma applications to advance industrial
technologies
- Environmental,
safety, and health aspects of the operation and removal of experimental fusion
devices
Major User Facilities
- National
Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX), to advance knowledge for the spherical
torus plasma confinement concept
- National
Compact Stellarator Experiment (NCSX), a device to study a compact
stellarator confinement concept, for which a preliminary design is under way.
Construction began in 2004.
- Current
Drive Experiment-Upgrade
(CDX-U), to investigate
plasma interactions with liquid lithium for fusion reactor
technology.
- Magnetic
Reconnection Experiment
(MRX), to study the
breaking and reconnection of magnetic field lines in plasmas
Contact
Sandia National
Laboratories
Core Competencies
User Facilities
The 25 user facilities
at Sandia include:
- Combustion
Research Facility,
which conducts a broad range of basic and applied research and development in
combustion science and technology, aimed at improving the nation’s ability to
use and control combustion processes
- Explosives
Components Facility,
a state-of-the-art facility that provides a full range of chemical,
material, and performance analysis capabilities for energetic materials and
explosive components
- Intelligent
Systems and Robotics Center,
which contains the Robotic Manufacturing Science and Engineering Laboratory, a
73,000-square-foot facility built to bring together all of Sandia’s robotics
researchers in an environment conducive to technology
transfer
- Primary
Standards Facility,
which develops and maintains primary standards that are traceable to national
standards and calibrates and certifies customer reference
standards
- Shock
Technology and Applied Research Facility,
a state-of-the-art facility that can provide a full range of
projectile/target interactions
Contact
Savannah River National
Laboratory
Core
Competencies
- Waste
processing
- Environmental
science
- Nonproliferation
and national security
- Spent
nuclear fuel
- Nuclear
materials management
- Hydrogen
technology
Contact
·
Dale Haas, (803)
725-4185, dale.haas@srnl.doe.gov
Stanford Linear Accelerator
Center
Core Competencies
- Innovate
electron-based accelerators, their instrumentation, detectors, and associated
computing
- Design, engineer,
construct, commission and operate novel electron-based accelerator facilities
- Design, engineer,
construct, commission and operate from very small to very large, earth- and
space-based advanced detectors and instrumentation
- Efficiently operate
at very high performance levels world class scientific user facilities
- Design, engineer,
construct, commission and operate petabyte computing enterprises for users
distributed worldwide
- Develop imaginative
and novel strategies for analysis, modeling, and simulation
Major User Facilities
- Stanford
Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, which provides synchrotron radiation, a
name given to x-rays or light produced by electrons circulating in a storage
ring at nearly the speed of light
- BaBar
collaboration, which consists of approximately 600 physicists and
engineers from 75 institutions in 10 countries. The project includes a
detector that was built at SLAC to study the millions of B mesons produced by
the PEP-II storage ring.
Contact
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator
Facility
Core
competencies
- High-energy
physics
- Advanced
accelerator research
- Synchrotron
radiation research
- Astroparticle
physics
- Technology and education
- Energy Recoverable Linacs
- Cryogenics
- Superconducting RF Technology
Major User Facilities
- Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator
Facility, a continuous-wave,
upgradeable 6 billion electron volt (6 GeV) beam capable of delivering
apolarized electron beams to three separate end stations
simultaneously
- Free-Electron Laser
(FEL), a
superconducting radio-frequency-(srf)-based laser that has delivered 14.2
kilowatt (kW) of infrared light and provided proof of principle for srf energy
recovered linacs.
Contacts