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

Publications by Research Area

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

2006

Nagarajan, V, A Stanishevsky, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Ferroelectric nanostructures via a modified focused ion beam technique."Nanotechnology 17 (2006) 338-343. DOI

2003

Nagarajan, V, A Roytburd, A Stanishevsky, S Prasertchoung, T Zhao, L Chen, J Melngailis, O Auciello, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Dynamics of ferroelastic domains in ferroelectric thin films."Nature Materials 2 (2003) 43-47. DOI

2002

Nagarajan, V, C.S Ganpule, A Stanishevsky, B.T Liu, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Nanoscale phenomena in synthetic functional oxide heterostructures."Microscopy and Microanalysis 8 (2002) 333-349. DOI

Stanishevsky, A, B Nagaraj, J Melngailis, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, L Khriachtchev, and E McDaniel."Radiation damage and its recovery in focused ion beam fabricated ferroelectric capacitors."Journal of Applied Physics 92 (2002) 3275-3278. DOI

Nagarajan, V, A Stanishevsky, L Chen, T Zhao, B.-T Liu, J Melngailis, A.L Roytburd, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, J Finder, Z Yu, R Droopad, and K Eisenbeiser."Realizing intrinsic piezoresponse in epitaxial submicron lead zirconate titanate capacitors on Si."Applied Physics Letters 81 (2002) 4215-4217. DOI

2001

Tiedke, S, T Schmitz, K Prume, A Roelofs, T Schneller, U Kall, R Waser, C.S Ganpule, V Nagarajan, A Stanishevsky, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Direct hysteresis measurements of single nanosized ferroelectric capacitors contacted with an atomic force microscope."Applied Physics Letters 79 (2001) 3678-3680. DOI

Ganpule, C.S, A.L Roytburd, V Nagarajan, A Stanishevsky, J Melngailis, E.D Williams, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Nanoscale electromechanical phenomena in ferroelectric thin films."Materials Research Society Symposium - Proceedings 655 (2001) XVI-XVII.

2000

Aggarwal, S, C Ganpule, I.G Jenkins, B Nagaraj, A Stanishevsky, J Melngailis, E Williams, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."High density ferroelectric memories: Materials, processing and scaling."Integrated Ferroelectrics 28 (2000) 213-225. DOI

Steinhauer, D.E, C.P Vlahacos, F.C Wellstood, S.M Anlage, C Canedy, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, A Stanishevsky, and J Melngailis."Quantitative imaging of dielectric permittivity and tunability with a near-field scanning microwave microscope."Review of Scientific Instruments 71 (2000) 2751-2758. DOI

1999

Steinhauer, D.E, C.P Vlahacos, F.C Wellstood, S.M Anlage, C Canedy, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, A Stanishevsky, and J Melngailis."Imaging of microwave permittivity, tunability, and damage recover in (Ba, Sr)TiO3 thin films."Applied Physics Letters 75 (1999) 3180-3182. DOI

Ganpule, C.S, A Stanishevsky, S Aggarwal, J Melngailis, E Williams, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, V Joshi, and C. Paz De Araujo."Scaling of ferroelectric and piezoelectric properties in Pt/SrBi2Ta2O9/Pt thin films."Applied Physics Letters 75 (1999) 3874-3876. DOI

Ganpule, C.S, A Stanishevsky, Q Su, S Aggarwal, J Melngailis, E Williams, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Scaling of ferroelectric properties in thin films."Applied Physics Letters 75 (1999) 409-411. DOI

1998

Stanishevsky, A, S Aggarwal, A.S Prakash, J Melngailis, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Focused ion-beam patterning of nanoscale ferroelectric capacitors."Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B: Microelectronics and Nanometer Structures 16 (1998) 3899-3902.