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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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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.

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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)

2004

Li, , J., B. Nagaraj, H. Liang, W. Cao, C.H. Lee, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Ultrafast polarization switching in thin-film ferroelectrics."Applied Physics Letters 84 (2004) 1174-1176. DOI

2003

Li, , J., H. Liang, B. Nagaraj, W. Cao, C.H. Lee, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Application of an ultrafast photonic technique to study polarization switching dynamics of thin-film ferroelectric capacitors."Journal of Lightwave Technology 21 (2003) 3282-3291. DOI

2002

Nagaraj, B., T. Wu, S.B. Ogale, T. Venkatesan, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Interface characterization of all-perovskite oxide field effect heterostructures."Journal of Electroceramics 8 (2002) 233-241. DOI

Liu, B.T., K. Maki, S. Aggarwal, B. Nagaraj, V. Nagarajan, L. Salamanca-Riba, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, A.M. Dhote, and O. Auciello."Low-temperature integration of lead-based ferroelectric capacitors on Si with diffusion barrier layer."Applied Physics Letters 80 (2002) 3599-3601. 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

Li, , J., H. Liang, W. Cao, C.H. Lee, B. Nagaraj, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Study of ultra-fast polarization switching in thin film ferroelectric capacitors."2002 International Topical Meeting on Microwave Photonics, MWP 2002 - Technical Digest (2002) 197-200. DOI

2001

Wu, T., S.B. Ogale, J.E. Garrison, B. Nagaraj, A. Biswas, Z. Chen, R.L. Greene, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, T. Venkatesan, and A.J. Millis."Electroresistance and electronic phase separation in mixed-valent manganites."Physical Review Letters 86 (2001) 5998-6001. DOI

Nagaraj, B., S. Aggarwal, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Influence of contact electrodes on leakage characteristics in ferroelectric thin films."Journal of Applied Physics 90 (2001) 375-382. DOI

2000

Aggarwal, S., B. Nagaraj, I.G. Jenkins, H. Li, R.P. Sharma, L. Salamanca-Riba, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, A.M. Dhote, A.R. Krauss, and O. Auciello."Correlation between oxidation resistance and crystallinity of Ti-Al as a barrier layer for high-density memories."Acta Materialia 48 (2000) 3387-3394. DOI

Wu, T., S.B. Ogale, J.E. Garrison, B. Nagaraj, Z. Chen, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, T. Venkatesan, Rzchowski M.S., Kawasaki M., Millis A.J., Molnar S., and Rajeswari M.."Deposition and electrical characterization of dielectric/ferromagnetic heterostructure."Materials Research Society Symposium - Proceedings 602 (2000) 363-370.

Nagarajan, V., S.P. Alpay, C.S. Ganpule, B. Nagaraj, S. Aggarwal, A.L. Roytburd, E.D. Williams, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Epitaxial PMN-PT relaxor thin films: dependence of dielectric and piezoelectric properties on film thickness."Materials Research Society Symposium - Proceedings 596 (2000) 505-510.

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

1999

Nagaraj, B., T. Sawhney, S. Perusse, S. Aggarwal, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, V.S. Kaushik, S. Zafar, R.E. Jones, J.-H. Lee, V. Balu, and J. Lee."(Ba,Sr)TiO3 thin films with conducting perovskite electrodes for dynamic random access memory applications."Applied Physics Letters 74 (1999) 3194-3196. DOI

Aggarwal, S., S. Madhukar, B. Nagaraj, I.G. Jenkins, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, L. Boyer, and J.T. Jr.."Can lead nonstoichiometry influence ferroelectric properties of Pb(Zr,Ti)O3 thin films?."Applied Physics Letters 75 (1999) 716-718. DOI

Aggarwal, S., I.G. Jenkins, B. Nagaraj, C. Canedy, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, G. Velasquez, L. Boyer, and J.T. Jr.."Conducting diffusion barriers for integration of ferroelectric capacitors on Si."Integrated Ferroelectrics 25 (1999) 205-221. DOI

Nagarajan, V., C.S. Ganpule, B. Nagaraj, S. Aggarwal, S.P. Alpay, A.L. Roytburd, E.D. Williams, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Effect of mechanical constraint on the dielectric and piezoelectric behavior of epitaxial Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3(90%)-PbTiO3(10%) relaxor thin films."Applied Physics Letters 75 (1999) 4183-4185. DOI

Nagaraj, B., S. Aggarwal, T.K. Song, T. Sawhney, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Leakage current mechanisms in lead-based thin-film ferroelectric capacitors."Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 59 (1999) 16022-16027. DOI

Aggarwal, S., S.R. Perusse, B. Nagaraj, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Oxide electrodes as barriers to hydrogen damage of Pb(Zr,Ti)O3-based ferroelectric capacitors."Applied Physics Letters 74 (1999) 3023-3025. DOI

Aggarwal, S., I.G. Jenkins, B. Nagaraj, C.J. Kerr, C. Canedy, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, G. Velasquez, L. Boyer, and J.T. Jr.."Switching properties of Pb(Nb, Zr,Ti)O3 capacitors using SrRuO3 electrodes."Applied Physics Letters 75 (1999) 1787-1789. DOI

1998

Song, T.K., S. Aggarwal, Y. Gallais, B. Nagaraj, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and J.T. Jr.."Activation fields in ferroelectric thin film capacitors: Area dependence."Applied Physics Letters 73 (1998) 3366-3368. DOI