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)

2014

Bol'shakov, Alexander A, Xianglei Mao, Dale L Perry, and Richard E Russo."Laser Ablation Molecular Isotopic Spectrometry for Rare Isotopes of the Light Elements."Spectroscopy 29.6 (2014) 30-39.

2012

Bol'shakov, Alexander A, Jong-Hyun Yoo, Jhanis J Gonzalez, Chunyi Liu, and Richard E Russo."Direct Real-Time Determination of Compositional Profiles in Structured Materials Using Laser Ablation Instruments: LIBS and LA-ICP-MS."Applied Industrial Optics: Spectroscopy, Imaging and Metrology (2012). DOI

Russo, Richard E, Alexander A Bol'shakov, Jong-Hyun Yoo, and Jhanis J Gonzalez."Laser ablation plasmas for diagnostics of structured electronic and optical materials during or after laser processing."Laser Applications in Microelectronic and Optoelectronic Manufacturing (LAMOM) XVII 8243 (2012) 82430A-1. DOI

2011

Mao, Xianglei, Alexander A Bol'shakov, Inhee Choi, Christopher P McKay, Dale L Perry, Osman Sorkhabi, and Richard E Russo."Laser ablation molecular isotopic spectrometry: strontium and its isotopes."Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic Spectroscopy 66.11 (2011) 767-775. DOI

Mao, Xianglei, Alexander A Bol'shakov, Dale L Perry, Osman Sorkhabi, and Richard E Russo."Laser ablation molecular isotopic spectrometry: parameter influence on boron isotope measurements."Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic Spectroscopy 66.8 (2011) 604-609. DOI

Russo, Richard E, Timothy W Suen, Alexander A Bol'shakov, Jong-Hyun Yoo, Osman Sorkhabi, Xianglei Mao, Jhanis J Gonzalez, Dayana D Oropeza, and Vassilia Zorba."Laser plasma spectrochemistry."Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry 26.8 (2011) 1596-1603. DOI

Russo, Richard E, Alexander A Bol'shakov, Xianglei Mao, Christopher P McKay, Dale L Perry, and Osman Sorkhabi."Laser ablation molecular isotopic spectrometry."Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic Spectroscopy 66.2 (2011) 99-104. DOI

2010

Bol'shakov, Alexander A, Jong-Hyun Yoo, Chunyi Liu, John R Plumer, and Richard E Russo."Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy in industrial and security applications."Applied Optics 49.13 (2010) C132-C142. DOI

2009

Bol'shakov, Alexander A, Jong-Hyun Yoo, Chunyi Liu, and Richard E Russo."Discrimination of complex substances with laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy."Spectroscopy 24.10 (2009) 36-44.