Los Alamos and Sandia national laboratories had 10 technologies named as part of this year's R&D 100 Awards.

The awards, given by R&D Magazine, go to the best technological advances at universities, private corporations and government labs around the world. The magazine has presented them each year since 1963.

Overall, 18 technologies were chosen from National Nuclear Security Administration labs in the national laboratory system.

Five technologies from Los Alamos National Laboratory made the list.

They are:

• Lasonix, a way of fabricating semiconductor materials and integrated circuits

• MagViz, a type of magnetic resonance imaging that uses ultralow magnetic fields

• The SIMTECHIE CO2 Capture Process, a method of capturing and compressing carbon dioxide from power plants and industrial operations

• TeraOps Software Radio, a type of software-defined radio that works in space to extend the lifetimes of electronic systems aboard satellites in space.

• The Artificial Retina Project, which developed a bioelectronic implant that restores useful vision to patients blinded by retinal diseases. The project was a combined effort with several other labs, including Sandia.

Five technologies from Sandia National Laboratories made the list.

They are:

• High-Temperature Silicon Carbide Power Module, which converts electrical energy to reduce the size and volume of power electronic systems

• Catamount N-Way Lightweight Kernel, which uses hardware capabilities to improve performance in parallel computing applications

• Ultralow-Power Silicon Microphotonic Communications Platform, a silicon device that aids communications with high-performance computers

• NanoCoral Dendritic Platinum Nanostructures, a technology for making platinum catalysts

• Hyperspectral Confocal Fluorescence Microscope System, which rapidly finds fluorescence in an image and can determine relative concentrations without prior information.

National Security Technologies, Los Alamos Operations, also had a technology that made the list. It is the High-Resolution UV Holography Lens technology for microscopes. The technology is used for particle-size distribution measurements.

Contact Sue Vorenberg at svorenberg@sfnewmexican.com.