Plasma Materials Test Facility

The Plasma Materials Test Facility (PMTF) at Sandia is a Department of Energy designated technology deployment center and Work for Others facility. The facility offers its users research capabilities in the modeling of plasma/material behavior and interaction, high heat flux testing and evaluation, materials characterization, and electron beam physical vapor disposition. Some of the PMTF’s unique testing capabilities are not accessible to users anywhere in the world except at Sandia. This facility welcomes private companies and universities to either visit or use the facility when no DOE experiments are under way, or to contract with Sandia directly through a Work for Others agreement to perform the testing.