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 by Research Area

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Publications

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

2014

Hong, Tianzhen, Le Yang, Jianjun Xia, Wei Feng, A. Li, Y. Zhu, and Y. Li."Building Energy Benchmarking between the United States and China: Methods and Challenges."8th International Symposium on Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Vol 263 (2014) 473-486. DOI

2011

Kehr, S.C., P. Yu, Y. Liu, M. Parzefall, A.I. Khan, R. Jacob, M.T. Wenzel, H.-G. von Ribbeck, M. Helm, X. Zhang, L.M. Eng, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Microspectroscopy on perovskite-based superlenses [Invited]."Optical Materials Express 1 (2011) 1051-1060. DOI

2003

Liang, H.Y., I.I. Smolyaninov, J. Li, V. Nagarajan, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, C.C. Davis, and C.H. Lee."Electric field induced SHG in PZT thin films studied using near-field scanning optical microscopy."OSA Trends in Optics and Photonics Series 88 (2003) 1685-1686.

2002

Li, Y., V. Nagarajan, S. Aggarwal, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, L.G. Salamanca-Riba, and L.J. Martínez-Miranda."Depth profile study of ferroelectric PbZr0.2Ti0.8O3 films."Journal of Applied Physics 92 (2002) 6762-6767. DOI

2001

Liang, H.Y., I.I. Smolyaninov, C.H. Lee, C.C. Davis, V. Nagarajan, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Near field optical second harmonic imaging of the polydomain structure of epitaxial PbZrxTi1-xO3 thin films."Materials Research Society Symposium - Proceedings 655 (2001) XLXXVII-XLXXVIII.

Smolyaninov, I.I., H.Y. Liang, C.H. Lee, C.C. Davis, V. Nagarajan, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Near-field second harmonic imaging of the c/a/c/a polydomain structure of epitaxial PbZrxTi1-xO3 thin films."Journal of Microscopy 202 (2001) 250-254. DOI

2000

Zhao, Y., Y. Li, S. Ogale, M. Rajeswari, V. Smolyaninova, T. Wu, A. Biswas, L. Salamanca-Riba, R. Greene, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, T. Venkatesan, and J. Scott."Electrical transport and magnetic properties of a possible electron-doped layered manganese oxide."Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 61 (2000) 4141-4145. DOI

Smolyaninov, I.I., H.Y. Liang, C.H. Lee, C.C. Davis, S. Aggarwal, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Near-field second-harmonic microscopy of thin ferroelectric films."Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science (QELS) - Technical Digest Series (2000) 63.

Smolyaninov, I.I., H.Y. Liang, C.H. Lee, C.C. Davis, S. Aggarwal, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Near-field second-harmonic microscopy of thin ferroelectric films."Optics Letters 25 (2000) 835-837. DOI

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