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SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES

Nuclear Weapons Facilities

Sandia's primary mission of Stockpile Stewardship is ensuring the safety, security, and reliability of the U.S. nuclear deterrent. Sandia designs and integrates over 6,300 parts of a modern nuclear weapon's 6,500 components.

Microelectronic Development Laboratory (Building 858)

The Microelectronic Development Laboratory (MDL) provides microtechnology development and engineering capabilities to support programs in the national interest. It was built in 1988 to microelectronic research, development, and application initiatives of strategic interest to DOE. There is over 180,000 square feet of laboratory space that supports failure analysis, reliability, test, modeling and simulation, advanced packaging, radiation hardness assurance, device design, and silicon device fabrication. The Wafer Fabrication Clean Room, a 30,000 square foot clean room at the core of MDL, has 22 separate clean room bays integrated as a single wafer processing facility providing over 12,000 square feet of Class 1 fabrication space.

The MDL is used for the fabrication and study of radiation hardened microelectronics and the physics underlying their performance, design, and manufacture. Silicon microelectronics projects under way in the MDL will support future Defense Programs work in radiation hardened integrated circuits, smart sensors, advanced packaging, and smart micro-mechanical devices. The integrated circuitry technology used for these projects is a modified version of SNL/NM's radiation hardened technology. The MDL serves as an alternative supplier of radiation hardened circuits for government applications.

Pulsed Power Technology Facilities

Radiation Facilities