Research Themes +
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 climate challenges by bringing to market energy-efficient innovations across the buildings, transportation, and industrial sectors. ETA is at the forefront of developing better batteries for electric vehicles; improving the country's aging electrical grid and innovating distributed energy and storage solutions; developing grid-interactive, efficient buildings; and providing the most comprehensive market and data analysis worldwide for renewable technologies like wind and solar.
Strategic Initiatives +
The Energy Technologies Area (ETA) Strategic Plan is the guiding force for our research and development for the next ten years. It clearly charts a path toward clean-energy solutions and focuses on five detailed Strategic Initiatives. The Plan provides an in-depth look at how ETA is accelerating research to provide affordable, clean energy to all while accomplishing deep, economy-wide decarbonization, looking to avoid a rise in global average temperature while simultaneously developing solutions to increase humanity's resilience to extreme weather volatility.
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About Us +
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 battling the Climate Crisis are key to the foundation of our research, which is driven by technoeconomic analysis and in-lab experimentation and discovery.

Publications

Publications by Research Area

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

2019

Luo, Q., Z. Guo, H. Huang, Q. Zou, X. Jiang, S. Zhang, H. Wang, M. Song, B. Zhang, H. Chen, H. Gu, G. Han, X. Yang, X. Zou, K.-Y. Wang, Z. Liu, J. Hong, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and L. You."Nanoelectromechanical switches by controlled switchable cracking."IEEE Electron Device Letters 40 (2019) 1209-1212. DOI

2017

Zhu, K.J., Gao Liu, Y.J Wang, J Liu, S. T. Li, L.Y. Yang, S.L. Liu, H. Wang, and T. Xie."Metal-Organic Frameworks derived novel hierarchical durian-like nickel sulfide (NiS₂) as an anode material for high-performance sodium-ion batteries."Materials Letters 197 (2017) 180 - 183. DOI

2015

Zhang, W., Ramamoorthy Ramesh, J.L. MacManus-Driscoll, and H. Wang."Multifunctional, self-assembled oxide nanocomposite thin films and devices."MRS Bulletin 40 (2015) 736-745. DOI

2014

Singh, S., J.T. Haraldsen, J. Xiong, E.M. Choi, P. Lu, D. Yi, X.-D. Wen, J. F. Liu, H. Wang, Z. Bi, P. Yu, M.R. Fitzsimmons, J.L. MacManus-Driscoll, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, A.V. Balatsky, J.-X. Zhu, and Q.X. Jia."Induced magnetization in La0.7Sr0.3MnO3/BiFeO3 superlattices."Physical Review Letters 113 (2014). DOI

2011

Zhang, J.X., B. Xiang, Q. He, J. Seidel, R.J. Zeches, P. Yu, S.Y. Yang, C.H. Wang, Y.-H. Chu, L.W. Martin, A.M. Minor, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Large field-induced strains in a lead-free piezoelectric material."Nature Nanotechnology 6 (2011) 98-102. DOI

Zhang, J.X., Q. He, M. Trassin, W. Luo, D. Yi, M.D. Rossell, P. Yu, L. You, C.H. Wang, C.Y. Kuo, J.T. Heron, Z. Hu, R.J. Zeches, H.J. Lin, A. Tanaka, C.T. Chen, L.H. Tjeng, Y.-H. Chu, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Microscopic origin of the giant ferroelectric polarization in tetragonal-like BiFeO3."Physical Review Letters 107 (2011). DOI

2009

Zeches, R.J., M.D. Rossell, J.X. Zhang, A.J. Hatt, Q. He, C.-H. Yang, A. Kumar, C.H. Wang, A. Melville, C. Adamo, G. Sheng, Y.-H. Chu, J.F. Ihlefeld, R. Erni, C. Ederer, V. Gopalan, L.Q. Chen, D.G. Schldin, N.A. Spaldin, L.W. Martin, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."A strain-driven morphotropic phase boundary in bifeO3."Science 326 (2009) 977-980. DOI