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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 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.
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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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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.

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Publications by Research Area

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

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Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

2007

Gonzalez, Jhanis J., Chunyi Liu, Sy-Bor Wen, Xianglei Mao, and Richard E. Russo."Metal particles produced by laser ablation for ICP-MS measurements."Talanta 73.3 (2007) 567-576. DOI

Wen, Sy-Bor, Xianglei Mao, Ralph Greif, and Richard E. Russo."Experimental and theoretical studies of particle generation after laser ablation of copper with a background gas at atmospheric pressure."Journal of Applied Physics 101.12 (2007) 123105-123115. DOI

Mao, Xianglei, Sy-Bor Wen, and Richard E. Russo."Time Resolved Laser-Induced Plasma Dynamics."Applied Surface Science 253.15 (2007) 6316-6321. DOI

Wen, Sy-Bor, Xianglei Mao, Ralph Greif, and Richard E. Russo."Expansion of the laser ablation vapor plume in to a background gas: Part I: Analysis."Journal of Applied Physics 101.2 (2007). DOI

Wen, Sy-Bor, Xianglei Mao, Ralph Greif, and Richard E. Russo."Laser ablation induced vapor plume expansion into a background gas. II. Experimental analysis."Journal of Applied Physics 101.2 (2007). DOI

Wen, Sy-Bor, Xianglei Mao, Chunyi Liu, and Richard E. Russo."Expansion and radiative cooling of the laser induced plasma."Jourmal of Physics: Conference Series 59.1 (2007) 343-347. DOI

Liu, Chunyi, Xianglei Mao, Ralph Greif, and Richard E. Russo."Time resolved shadowgraph images of silicon during laser ablation: Shockwaves and Particle generation."Journal of Physics: Conference Series 59.1 (2007) 338-342. DOI

Baudelet, Matthieu, Myriam Boueri, Jin Yu, Samuel S. Mao, Vincent Piscitelli, Xianglei Mao, and Richard E. Russo."Time-resolved ultraviolet laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy for organic material analysis."Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic Spectroscopy 20 (2007) 1329-1334.

2006

Wen, Sy-Bor, Xianglei Mao, Ralph Greif, and Richard E. Russo."Analysis of laser ablation: contribution of ionization energy to the plasma and shockwave properties."Journal of Applied Physics 102.4 (2006). DOI

Wen, Sy-Bor, Xianglei Mao, Ralph Greif, and Richard E. Russo."Radiative cooling of laser ablated vapor plumes: experimental and theoretical analyses."Journal of Applied Physics 100.5 (2006). DOI

Gonzalez, Jhanis J., Siv H. Dundas, Chunyi Liu, Xianglei Mao, and Richard E. Russo."UV-femtosecond and nanosecond laser ablation-ICP-MS: internal and external repeatability."Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry 21.8 (2006) 778-784. DOI

Wen, Sy-Bor, Xianglei Mao, Ralph Greif, and Richard E. Russo."Theoretical analysis for LIBS optimization."Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic Spectroscopy (2006).

2005

Liu, Chunyi, Xianglei Mao, Samuel S. Mao, Ralph Greif, and Richard E. Russo."Particle-size dependent chemistry from laser ablation of brass."Analytical Chemistry 77.20 (2005) 6687-6691. DOI

Wen, Sy-Bor, Xianglei Mao, and Richard E. Russo."Comment on ''three-dimensional analysis of laser induced plasmas in single and double pulse configuration''."Spectrochimica Acta Part B-Atomic Spectroscopy 60 (2005) 870-875.

Gonzalez, Jhanis J., Chunyi Liu, Jong-Hyun Yoo, Xianglei Mao, and Richard E. Russo."Double-pulse laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry."Spectrochimica Acta Part B-Atomic Spectroscopy 60 (2005) 27-31.

Zeng, Xianzhong, Xianglei Mao, Samuel S. Mao, Sy-Bor Wen, Ralph Greif, and Richard E. Russo."Laser-Induced Shockwave Propagation from Ablation in a Cavity."Applied Physics Letters (2005).

Liu, Chunyi, Xianglei Mao, Jhanis J. Gonzalez, and Richard E. Russo."Study of particle size influence on laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry using an in-line cascade impactor."J.Anal.Atom.Spectrom. 20 (2005) 200-203.

Mao, Xianglei, Xianzhong Zeng, Sy-Bor Wen, and Richard E. Russo."Time-resolved plasma properties for double pulsed LIBS of silicon."Spectrochimica Acta Part B-Atomic Spectroscopy (2005).

2004

Mao, Samuel S., Fabien Quéré, Stéphane Guizard, Xianglei Mao, Richard E. Russo, Guillaume Petite, and Philippe Martin."Dynamics of femtosecond laser interactions with dielectrics."Applied Physics A-Materials Science & Processing 79.7 (2004) 1695-1709. DOI

Zeng, Xianzhong, Xianglei Mao, Sy-Bor Wen, Ralph Greif, and Richard E. Russo."Energy deposition and shock wave propagation during pulsed laser ablation in fused silica cavities."Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 37 (2004) 1132-1136.

Zeng, Xianzhong, Xianglei Mao, Ralph Greif, and Richard E. Russo."Experimental investigation of ablation efficiency and laser-induced plasma expansion during femtosecond and nanosecond laser ablation of silicon."Applied Physics A: Materials science and processing 80 (2004) 237-241.

Russo, Richard E., Xianglei Mao, Chunyi Liu, and Jhanis J. Gonzalez."Laser assisted plasma spectrometry: Laser Ablation."J.Anal.Atom.Spectrom. 19 (2004) 1084-1089.

Mao, Samuel S., Xianzhong Zeng, Xianglei Mao, and Richard E. Russo."Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy: flat surface vs. cavity structures."J.Anal.Atom.Spectrom. 19 (2004) 495-498.

Zeng, Xianzhong, Xianglei Mao, Samuel S. Mao, Jong-Hyun Yoo, Ralph Greif, and Richard E. Russo."Laser-plasma interactions in fused silica cavities."Journal of Applied Physics 95 (2004) 816-822.

Liu, Chunyi, Xianglei Mao, Samuel S. Mao, Xianzhong Zeng, Ralph Greif, and Richard E. Russo."Nanosecond and femtosecond laser ablation of brass: Particulate and ICPMS measurements."Analytical Chemistry 76 (2004) 379-383.