Energy Technologies Area

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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.

Publications by Research Area

Buildings

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Energy Storage

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Transportation

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Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

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1995

Fernández, Alberto J, Xianglei Mao, Wing-Tat Chan, Mark A Shannon, and Richard E Russo."Correlation of Spectral Emission Intensity in the Inductively-Coupled Plasma and Laser-Induced Plasma During Laser-Ablation of Solid Samples."Analytical Chemistry 67 (1995) 2444-2450.

Xu, Xianfan, Costas P Grigoropoulos, and Richard E Russo."Heat transfer in excimer laser melting of thin polysilicon layers."Journal of Heat Transfer 117 (1995) 708-715.

Reade, Ronald P, Stefan R Church, and Richard E Russo."Ion assisted pulsed laser deposition."Review of Scientific Instrumentation 66.6 (1995) 3610-3614. DOI

Russo, Richard E."Laser-Ablation."Applied Spectroscopy 49 (1995) A14-A28.

Russo, Richard E, Xianglei Mao, Wing-Tat Chan, M F Bryant, and W. W Frank Kinard."Laser-Ablation Sampling with Inductively-Coupled Plasma-Atomic Emission-Spectrometry for the Analysis of Prototypical Glasses."Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry 10.4 (1995) 295-301. DOI

Shannon, Mark A, and Richard E Russo."Laser-Induced Stresses Versus Mechanical-Stress Power Measurements During Laser-Ablation of Solids."Applied Physics Letters 67 (1995) 3227-3229.

Mao, Xianglei, Mark A Shannon, Alberto J Fernández, and Richard E Russo."Temperature and emission spatial profile of laser-induced plasmas during ablation using time-integrated emission spectroscopy."Appl.Spectrosc. 49 (1995) 1054-1061.

Lee, Daehee, Peter C Stevens, Shou Quan Zeng, and Arlon J Hunt."Thermal characterization of carbon-opacified silica aerogels."Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids 186 (1995) 285-290.

Mao, Xianglei, Dale L Perry, and Richard E Russo."Thin films of Calcium-Nickel-Potassium oxide fabricated by pulsed laser deposition."High Temperature and Materials Science 33 (1995) 117-123.

Xu, Xianfan, Costas P Grigoropoulos, and Richard E Russo."Transient temperature measurement during pulsed excimer laser heating of thin semiconductor films."Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 117 (1995) 17-24.

Reade, Ronald P, Paul H Berdahl, Leonard W Schaper, and Richard E Russo."Y-Ba-Cu-O multilayer structures with amorphous dielectric layers for multichip modules using ion-assisted pulsed laser deposition."Applied Physics Letters 66.15 (1995) 2001-2003. DOI

1994

Cao, Wanqing, and Arlon J Hunt."Improving the visible transparency of silica aerogels."Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids 176.1 (1994) 18-25. DOI

Wruck, David A, Richard E Russo, and Robert J Silva."Thermal lens spectroscopy of plutonium using laser diode and fiber optics."Journal of Alloys and Compounds 213-214 (1994) 481-483. DOI

Russo, Richard E, G. G Ernie Pelkey, Patrick M Grant, Richard E Whipple, and Brian D Andresen."Laser interrogation of latent vehicle registration number."Journal of Forensics Science 39.5 (1994) 1331-1334. DOI

Qiu, Taiqing, Chang-Lin Tien, Mark A Shannon, and Richard E Russo."Thermal and mechanical response of gold films during nanosecond laser pulse heating."Experimental Heat Transfer: A Journal of Thermal Energy Generation, Transport, Storage, and Conversion 7.3 (1994) 175-188. DOI

Rudnicki, James D, David W Shoesmith, and Richard E Russo."Photothermal deflection spectroscopy investigations of uranium dioxide oxidation."Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry 372.1-2 (1994) 63-74. DOI

Gasteiger, Hubert A, Nenad Marković, Philip N Ross, and Elton J Cairns."Temperature-Dependent Methanol Electro-Oxidation on Well-Characterized Pt-Ru Alloys."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 141 (1994) 1795-1803. DOI

Battaglia, Vincent S, and John S Newman."Magnetic Field Effects in High-Power Batteries I. The Penetration of an Electric Field into a Cylindrical Conductor."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 141 (1994) 703-708. DOI

Battaglia, Vincent S, and John S Newman."Magnetic Field Effects in High-Power Batteries II. Time Constant of a Radial Circuit Terminated by a Cylindrical Cell with Inductance."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 141 (1994) 708-713. DOI

Klunder, Gregory L, J Bürck, Hans J Ache, Robert J Silva, and Richard E Russo."Temperature Effects on a Fiber-Optic Evanescent Wave Absorption Sensor."Applied Spectroscopy 48.3 (1994) 387-393.

Shannon, Mark A, Boris Rubinsky, and Richard E Russo."Detecting laser induced phase change at the surface of solids via latent heat of melting with a photothermal deflection technique."Journal of Applied Physics 75.3 (1994) 1473-1485. DOI

Gasteiger, Hubert A, Nenad Marković, Philip N Ross, and Elton J Cairns."Carbon monoxide electrooxidation on well-characterized platinum-ruthenium alloys."The Journal of Physical Chemistry 98.2 (1994) 617-625. DOI

Doeff, Marca M, Marcus Y Peng, Yanping Ma, and Lutgard C De Jonghe."Orthorhombic Na_xMnO₂ as a Cathode Material for Secondary Sodium and Lithium Polymer Batteries."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 141 (1994) L145-L147. DOI

Striebel, Kathryn A, Frank R McLarnon, and Elton J Cairns."Laboratory-scale evaluation of secondary alkaline zinc batteries for electric vehicles."Journal of Power Sources 47 (1994) 1-11. DOI

Russo, Richard E, Xianglei Mao, and Dale L Perry."Make Catalytic Coatings by Pulsed-Laser Deposition - the Technique Produces Multicomponent Inorganic Films with Defined Composition and Structure - It Is Illustrated by the Preparation of A Supported Caniko Catalyst."Chemtech 24 (1994) 14-17.