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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2003

Poitrasson, Franck, Xianglei Mao, Samuel S. Mao, Rémi Freydier, and Richard E. Russo."Comparison of ultraviolet femtosecond and nanosecond laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry analysis in glass, monazite, and zircon."Analytical Chemistry 75.22 (2003) 6184-6190. DOI

Ridgway, Paul L., Richard E. Russo, Emmanuel Lafond, Ted Jackson, and Charles Habeger."A Laser Ultrasonic System for On-Line Measurement of Elastic Properties of Paper."Journal of Pulp and Paper Science 29.9 (2003) 289-293.

Satta, Mauro, Xianzhong Zeng, Xianglei Mao, Samuel S. Mao, Richard E. Russo, Anna Giardini Guidoni, and Aldo Mele."Laser plasma spectroscopy of Al-Cu-Fe quasicrystal and alloy."Applied Spectroscopy 57.7 (2003) 737-743.

Mao, Xianglei, Samuel S. Mao, and Richard E. Russo."Imaging femtosecond laser-induced electronic excitation in glass."Applied Physics Letters 82.5 (2003) 697-699. DOI

Berdahl, Paul H., Ronald P. Reade, Jinping Liu, Richard E. Russo, Les Fritzemeier, David Buczek, and Urs Schoop."Oblique ion texturing of yttria-stabilized zirconia: the {211}<111> structure."Applied Physics Letters 82.3 (2003) 343-345. DOI

Zeng, Xianzhong, Samuel S. Mao, Chunyi Liu, Xianglei Mao, Ralph Greif, and Richard E. Russo."Laser-induced plasmas in micromachined fused silica cavities."Appl.Phys.Lett. 83 (2003) 240-242.

Zeng, Xianzhong, Samuel S. Mao, Chunyi Liu, Xianglei Mao, Ralph Greif, and Richard E. Russo."Plasma diagnostics during laser ablation in a cavity."Spectrochim.Acta Pt.B-At.Spec. 58 (2003) 867-877.

2002

Yang, Peidong, Haoquan Yan, Samuel S. Mao, Richard E. Russo, Justin Johnson, Richard Saykally, Nathan Morris, Johnny Pham, Rongrui He, and Heon-Jin Choi."Controlled growth of ZnO nanowires and their optical properties."Advanced Functional Materials 12.5 (2002) 323-331. DOI

Russo, Richard E., Xianglei Mao, Haichen Liu, Jhanis J. Gonzalez, and Samuel S. Mao."Laser ablation in analytical chemistry - a review."Talanta 57.3 (2002) 425-451. DOI

Mele, Aldo, Haichen Liu, Richard E. Russo, Xianglei Mao, Anna Giardini Guidoni, and Mauro Satta."Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometric study of laser sputtering from the surface of an Al-Cu-Fe alloy and quasicrystal."Applied Surface Science 186.1-4 (2002) 322-328. DOI

Gonzalez, Jhanis J., Xianglei Mao, John Roy, Samuel S. Mao, and Richard E. Russo."Comparison of 193, 213 and 266 nm laser ablation ICP-MS."Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry 17.9 (2002) 1108-1113. DOI

Lu, Quanming, Samuel S. Mao, Xianglei Mao, and Richard E. Russo."Delayed phase explosion during high-power nanosecond laser ablation of silicon."Applied Physics Letters 80.17 (2002) 3072-3074. DOI

Gonzalez, Jhanis J., Xianglei Mao, Samuel S. Mao, and Richard E. Russo."Femtosecond laser ablation-ICP-MS."Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry 17 (2002) 1072-1075.

Reade, Ronald P., Paul H. Berdahl, and Richard E. Russo."Ion beam nanotexturing of buffer layers for near single crystal thin film deposition: Application to YBCO superconducting films."Applied Physics Letters 8 (2002) 1352-1354.

Russo, Richard E., Xianglei Mao, and Samuel S. Mao."The physics of laser ablation in microchemical analysis."Analytical Chemistry 74 (2002) 70A-77A.

2001

Yoo, Jong-Hyun, Sungho Jeong, Xianglei Mao, Ralph Greif, and Richard E. Russo."Response to "Comment on 'Evidence for phase explosion and generation of large particles during high power nanosecond laser ablation of silicon'"."Applied Physics Letters 79.3 (2001) 444-445. DOI

Hunt, Arlon J., and Michael R. Ayers."Investigations of silica alcogel aging using coherent light."Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids 285.1-3 (2001) 162-166. DOI

Huang, Michael H., Samuel S. Mao, Henning Feick, Haoquan Yan, Yiying Wu, Hannes Kind, Eicke R. Weber, Richard E. Russo, and Peidong Yang."Room-temperature ultraviolet nanowire nanolasers."Science 292.5523 (2001) 1897-1899. DOI

Yoo, Jong-Hyun, Oleg V. Borisov, Xianglei Mao, and Richard E. Russo."Existence of phase explosion during laser ablation and its effects on inductively coupled plasma-mass spectroscopy."Analytical Chemistry 73.10 (2001) 2288-2293. DOI

Mao, Samuel S., Xianglei Mao, Ralph Greif, and Richard E. Russo."Influence of preformed shock wave on the development of picosecond laser ablation plasma."Journal of Applied Physics 89.7 (2001) 4096-4098. DOI

Salleo, Alberto, François Y. Génin, Michael D. Feit, Alexander M. Rubenchik, Timothy Sands, Samuel S. Mao, and Richard E. Russo."Energy deposition at front and rear surfaces during picosecond laser interaction with fused silica."Applied Physics Letters 78.19 (2001) 2840-2842. DOI

Chan, George C.Y., Wing-Tat Chan, Xianglei Mao, and Richard E. Russo."Comparison of matrix effects in inductively coupled plasma using laser ablation and solution nebulization for dry and wet plasma conditions."Spectrochimica Acta Part B-Atomic Spectroscopy 56 (2001) 1375-1386.

Chan, George C.Y., Wing-Tat Chan, Xianglei Mao, and Richard E. Russo."Investigation of matrix effects in inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectroscopy using laser ablation and solution nebulization - effect of second ionization potential."Spectrochimica Acta Part B-Atomic Spectroscopy 56 (2001) 77-92.

Borisov, Oleg V., Christopher J. Bannochie, and Richard E. Russo."Laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry of pressed pellet surrogates for Pu materials disposition."Applied Spectroscopy 55 (2001) 1304-1311.

Ayers, Michael R., and Arlon J. Hunt."Observation of the aggregation behavior of silica sols using laser speckle contrast measurements."Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids 290 (2001) 122-128.