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.

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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)

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1994

Xu, Xianfan, Costas P Grigoropoulos, and Richard E Russo."Measurement of solid/liquid interface temperature during pulsed excimer laser malting of polycrystalline silicon films."Appl.Phys.Lett. 65 (1994) 1745-1747.

Russo, Richard E, Samuel S Mao, and Dale L Perry."Pulse laser deposition of thin films."Chemtech 24 (1994) 14-18.

Russo, Richard E, Xianglei Mao, and Dale L Perry."Pulsed-Laser Deposition Technique for Ca(1-X)Nixo and Y1Ba2Cu3O Thin-Films."Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society 207 (1994) 29-IEC.

Kilgo, Marvin M, Ralph Greif, and Richard E Russo."Questions in fluid mechanics - Flow near thermodynamic critical points."Journal of Fluids Engineering 115 (1994) 546-547.

Faulques, Eric, Richard E Russo, and Dale L Perry."Raman studies of uranyl nitrate and its hydroxy bridged dimer."Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular Spectroscopy 50.4 (1994) 757-763. DOI

Oblonsky, Lucy J, Thomas M Devine, Joel W Ager, Scott S Perry, Xianglei Mao, and Richard E Russo."Surface-Enhanced Raman-Scattering from Pyridine Adsorbed on Thin-Layers of Stainless-Steel."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 141 (1994) 3312-3317.

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 141.7 (1994) 1795-1803. DOI

Dorda, Andreas A, Frank R McLarnon, and Elton J Cairns."The effect of zinc ions on the platinum electrode in alkaline solutions."Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry 364 (1994) 71-77. DOI

Cao, Wanqing, and Arlon J Hunt."Thermal annealing of photoluminescent Si deposited on silica aerogels."Solid State Communications 91 (1994) 645-648.

1993

Rudnicki, James D, Gessie M Brisard, Hubert A Gasteiger, Richard E Russo, Frank R McLarnon, and Elton J Cairns."Effect of the supporting electrolyte and beam diameter on probe beam deflection experiments."Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry 362.1-2 (1993) 55-69. DOI

Doeff, Marca M, Yanping Ma, Steven J Visco, and Lutgard C De Jonghe."Electrochemical insertion of sodium into carbon."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 140 (1993) L169-L170. DOI

Gasteiger, Hubert A, Nenad Marković, Philip N Ross, and Elton J Cairns."Methanol electrooxidation on well-characterized platinum-ruthenium bulk alloys."The Journal of Physical Chemistry 97 (1993) 12020-12029. DOI

Spear, Jonathan D, Robert J Silva, Gregory L Klunder, and Richard E Russo."Collinear photothermal deflection spectroscopy of liquid samples at varying temperature."Applied Spectroscopy 47.10 (1993) 1580-1584.

Mao, Xianglei, Wing-Tat Chan, Mark A Shannon, and Richard E Russo."Plasma Shielding During Picosecond Laser Sampling of Solid Materials by Ablation in He Versus Ar Atmosphere."Journal of Applied Physics 74.8 (1993) 4915-4922. DOI

Ma, Yanping, Marca M Doeff, Steven J Visco, and Lutgard C De Jonghe."Rechargeable Na/Na_xCoO₂ and Na₁₅Pb₄/Na x CoO₂ Polymer Electrolyte Cells."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 140.10 (1993) 2726-2733. DOI

Mao, Xianglei, Dale L Perry, and Richard E Russo."Ca(1-X)Nixo Catalytic Thin-Films Prepared by Pulsed-Laser Deposition."Journal of Materials Research 8.9 (1993) 2400-2403. DOI

Faulques, Eric, Richard E Russo, and Dale L Perry."Raman spectral studies of uranyl sulfate and its urea complex structural isomers."Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular Spectroscopy 49.7 (1993) 975-983. DOI

Lessner, Philip M, Frank R McLarnon, Jack Winnick, and Elton J Cairns."The Dependence of Aqueous Sulfur-Polysulfide Redox Potential on Electrolyte Composition and Temperature."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 140 (1993) 1847-1849. DOI

Visco, Steven J, Meilin Liu, Marca M Doeff, Yanping Ma, Carl M Lampert, and Lutgard C De Jonghe."Polyorganodisulfide electrodes for solid-state batteries and electrochromic devices."Solid State Ionics 60.1-3 (1993) 175-187. DOI

Gupta, Shiv K, Paul H Berdahl, Richard E Russo, Gabriel Briceño, and Alex Zettl."Pulse I-V characteristics measurement to study dissipation mechanism in epitaxial YBaCuO thin films at high current densities."Physica C: Superconductivity 206.3-4 (1993) 335-344. DOI

Schurig, David A, Gregory L Klunder, Robert J Silva, and Richard E Russo."Signal analysis of transients in pulsed photoacoustic spectroscopy."Review of Scientific Instrumentation 64.2 (1993) 363-373. DOI

1992

Reade, Ronald P, Paul H Berdahl, Stephen M Garrison, and Richard E Russo."Laser deposition of biaxially textured yttria‐stabilized zirconia buffer layers on polycrystalline metallic alloys for high critical current Y‐Ba‐Cu‐O thin films."Applied Physics Letters 61.18 (1992) 2231-2233. DOI

Spear, Jonathan D, Richard E Russo, John E Andrews, and Patrick M Grant."Lens correction for the implementation of cylindrical vessels in a spectrophotometer."Review of Scientific Instrumentation 63.10 (1992) 4457. DOI

Klunder, Gregory L, Robert J Silva, and Richard E Russo."Photoacoustic spectroscopy and the effect of amplified spontaneous emission."Analytical Chemistry 64.20 (1992) 2429-2433. DOI

Rostami, Ali A, Ralph Greif, and Richard E Russo."Modified enthalpy method applied to rapid melting and solidification."International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 35.9 (1992) 2161-2172. DOI