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Energy Technologies Area (ETA) researchers are continually building on the strong scientific foundation we have developed over the past 50 years. We address the world’s most pressing scientific challenges across the buildings, transportation, and industrial sectors. ETA is at the forefront of improving the country's aging electrical grid and innovating distributed energy and storage solutions; developing grid-integrated building systems; and providing the most comprehensive market and data analysis worldwide.
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The Energy Technologies Area (ETA) is unique in translating fundamental scientific discoveries into scalable technology adoption. Our approach combines an understanding of the marketplace and the role of state and federal regulation and policies. ETA's research drives real-world, practical results that affect and improve the everyday lives of Americans and those across the globe. Saving energy and increasing reliability are key to the foundation of our research, which is driven by techno-economic analysis and in-lab experimentation and discovery.

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2006

Polak, Elijah, and Michael Wetter."Precision control for generalized pattern search algorithms with adaptive precision function evaluations."SIAM Journal on Optimization 16.3 (2006) 650-669 . DOI

Anders, André, Eungsun Byon, Dong-Ho Kim, Kentaro Fukuda, and Sunnie H.N Lim."Smoothing of ultrathin silver films by transition metal seeding."Applied Physics Letters (2006).

Mohamed, Sodky H, and André Anders."Structural, optical and electrical properties of WOxNy films deposited by reactive dual magnetron sputtering."Surface and Coatings Technology 201.6 (2006) 2977-2983. DOI

Lee, Eleanor S, and Stephen E Selkowitz."The New York Times Headquarters Daylighting Mockup: Monitored Performance of the Daylighting Control System."Energy & Buildings 38 (2006) 914-929.

Nouidui, Thierry Stephane, Christoph Nytsch-Geusen, and Andreas Holm."Validierung der eindimensionalen hygrothermischen Wandmodelle der Modelica-Bibliothek "BuildingPhysicsLibrary"."BauSIM 2006 (2006) pp.144-146.

Apte, Joshua S, and Dariush K Arasteh."Window-Related Energy Consumption in the US Residential and Commercial Building Stock." (2006).

2005

Levinson, Ronnen M, Paul H Berdahl, Asmeret A Berhe, and Hashem Akbari."Effects of soiling and cleaning on the reflectance and solar heat gain of a light-colored roofing membrane."Atmospheric Environment 39.40 (2005) 7807-7824. DOI

Levinson, Ronnen M, Paul H Berdahl, and Hashem Akbari."Solar spectral optical properties of pigments—Part I: model for deriving scattering and absorption coefficients from transmittance and reflectance measurements."Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 89.4 (2005) 319-349. DOI

Levinson, Ronnen M, Paul H Berdahl, and Hashem Akbari."Solar spectral optical properties of pigments—Part II: survey of common colorants."Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 89.4 (2005) 351-389. DOI

Bhattacharya, Prajesh, Patrick E Phelan, and Ravi S Prasher."Computational Analysis of the Colloidal Stability of Nanofluids."International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (2005).

Nara, S, Prajesh Bhattacharya, P Vijayan, W . Y. Lai, W Rosenthal, Patrick E Phelan, Ravi S Prasher, David W Song, and Jinlin Wang."Experimental Determination of the Effect of Varying Base Fluid and Temperature on the Static Thermal Conductivity of Nanofluids."ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, November 5-11, 2005 (2005). DOI

Akbari, Hashem, Ronnen M Levinson, and Leo I Rainer."Monitoring the energy-use effects of cool roofs on California commercial buildings."Energy and Buildings 37.10 (2005) 1007-1016. DOI

Akbari, Hashem, Asmeret A Berhe, Ronnen M Levinson, Stanley Graveline, Kevin Foley, Ana H Delgado, and Ralph M Paroli."Aging and Weathering of Cool Roofing Membranes." (2005).

Morrissey, Elmer, Marcus Keane, James O'Donnell, and John F McCarthy."Building Effectiveness Communication Ratios for Improved Building Life Cycle Management."IBPSA Building Simulation Conference 2005 (2005).

Crawley, Drury B, Jon W Hand, Michael Kummert, and Brent T Griffith."Contrasting the Capabilities of Building Energy Performance Simulation Programs."IBPSA Building Simulation 2005 (2005).

Carroll, William L, and Robert J Hitchcock."DElight2 Daylighting Analysis in Energy Plus: Integration and Preliminary User Results."Building Simulation 2005 (2005).

da Graça, Guilherme Carrilho, Paul F Linden, and Martha Brook."Design of the Natural Ventilation System for the New San Diego Children's Museum."IBPSA Building Simulation 2005 (2005).

Hand, Jon W, Drury B Crawley, Michael Donn, and Linda K Lawrie."Improving the Data Available to Simulation Programs."IBPSA Building Simulation 2005 (2005).

Fisher, Daniel E, and Simon J Rees."Modeling Ground Source Heat Pump Systems in a Building Energy Simulation Program (EnergyPlus)."IBPSA Building Simulation 2005 (2005).

Mehta, Mohit."Natural Ventilation Analysis of an Office Building with Open Atrium."IBPSA Building Simulation 2005 (2005).

Wurtz, Etienne, Chadi Maalouf, Laurent Mora, and Francis Allard."Parametric Analysis of a Solar Desiccant Cooling System using the SimSPARK Environment."IBPSA Building Simulation 2005 (2005).

Inanici, Mehlika."Per-Pixel Lighting Data Analysis." (2005).

O'Donnell, James, Elmer Morrissey, Marcus Keane, and Brian Ó Gallachóir."Reducing Building Operational Cost Through Environmental Effectiveness Ratios."Building Simulation 2005 IBPSA International Conference (2005).

Ellis, Peter G, and Paul A Torcellini."Simulating Tall Buildings Using EnergyPlus."IBPSA Building Simulation 2005 (2005).

O'Sullivan, Barry, and Marcus Keane."Specifiction of an IFC-Based Intelligent Graphical User Interface to Support Building Energy Simulation."IBPSA Building Simulation 2005 (2005).