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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.

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)

2011

Baek, S.H., J. Park, D.M. Kim, V.A. Aksyuk, R.R. Das, S.D. Bu, D.A. Felker, J. Lettieri, V. Vaithyanathan, S.S.N. Bharadwaja, N. Bassiri-Gharb, Y.B. Chen, H.P. Sun, C.M. Folkman, H.W. Jang, D.J. Kreft, S.K. Streiffer, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, X.Q. Pan, S. Trolier-McKinstry, D.G. Schlom, M.S. Rzchowski, R.H. Blick, and C.B. Eom."Giant piezoelectricity on Si for hyperactive MEMS."Science 334 (2011) 958-961. DOI

2010

Baek, S.H., H.W. Jang, C.M. Folkman, Y.L. Li, B. Winchester, J.X. Zhang, Q. He, Y.H. Chu, C.T. Nelson, M.S. Rzchowski, X.Q. Pan, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, L.Q. Chen, and C.B. Eom."Ferroelastic switching for nanoscale non-volatile magnetoelectric devices."Nature Materials 9 (2010) 309-314. DOI

2008

Jang, H.W., S.H. Baek, D. Ortiz, C.M. Folkman, C.B. Eom, Y.H. Chu, P. Shafer, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, V. Vaithyanathan, and D.G. Schlom."Epitaxial (001) BiFe O3 membranes with substantially reduced fatigue and leakage."Applied Physics Letters 92 (2008). DOI

Jang, H.W., S.H. Baek, D. Ortiz, C.M. Folkman, R.R. Das, Y.H. Chu, J.X. Zhang, V. Vaithyanathan, S. Choudhury, Y.B. Chen, X.Q. Pan, D.G. Schlom, L.Q. Chen, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and C.B. Eom."Strain tunability of spontaneous polarization and enhanced ferroelectric properties in epitaxial (001) BiFeO3 thin films."IEEE International Symposium on Applications of Ferroelectrics 3 (2008). DOI

Jang, H.W., S.H. Baek, D. Ortiz, C.M. Folkman, R.R. Das, Y.H. Chu, P. Shafer, J.X. Zhang, S. Choudhury, V. Vaithyanathan, Y.B. Chen, D.A. Felker, M.D. Biegalski, M.S. Rzchowski, X.Q. Pan, D.G. Schlom, L.Q. Chen, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and C.B. Eom."Strain-induced polarization rotation in epitaxial (001) BiFeO3 thin films."Physical Review Letters 101 (2008). DOI

2006

Zhao, T., A. Scholl, F. Zavaliche, K. Lee, M. Barry, A. Doran, M.P. Cruz, Y.H. Chu, C. Ederer, N.A. Spaldin, R.R. Das, D.M. Kim, S.H. Baek, C.B. Eom, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Electrical control of antiferromagnetic domains in multiferroic BiFeO 3 films at room temperature."Nature Materials 5 (2006) 823-829. DOI

Zavaliche, F., S.Y. Yang, T. Zhao, Y.H. Chu, M.P. Cruz, C.B. Eom, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Multiferroic BiFeO3 films: Domain structure and polarization dynamics."Phase Transitions 79 (2006) 991-1017. DOI

Das, R.R., D.M. Kim, S.H. Baek, C.B. Eom, F. Zavaliche, S.Y. Yang, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Y.B. Chen, X.Q. Pan, X. Ke, M.S. Rzchowski, and S.K. Streiffer."Synthesis and ferroelectric properties of epitaxial BiFeO 3 thin films grown by sputtering."Applied Physics Letters 88 (2006). DOI

Kim, D.M., C.B. Eom, V. Nagarajan, J. Ouyang, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, V. Vaithyanathan, and D.G. Schlom."Thickness dependence of structural and piezoelectric properties of epitaxial Pb(Zr 0.52Ti 0.48)O 3 films on Si and SrTiO 3 substrates."Applied Physics Letters 88 (2006). DOI

2005

Zavaliche, F., R.R. Das, D.M. Kim, C.B. Eom, S.Y. Yang, P. Shafer, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Ferroelectric domain structure in epitaxial BiFeO 3 films."Applied Physics Letters 87 (2005) 1-3. DOI

Ouyang, J., D.M. Kim, C.B. Eom, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and A.L. Roytburd."Orientation dependence of the intrinsic converse longitudinal piezoelectric constant for 0.67Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3-0. 33PbTiO3 ferroelectric films with a rhombohedral structure."Smart Materials and Structures 14 (2005) 524-528. DOI

Zavaliche, F., P. Shafer, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, M.P. Cruz, R.R. Das, D.M. Kim, and C.B. Eom."Polarization switching in epitaxial BiFeO 3 films."Applied Physics Letters 87 (2005) 1-3. DOI

2004

Nagarajan, V., S. Prasertchoung, T. Zhao, H. Zheng, J. Ouyang, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, W. Tian, X.Q. Pan, D.M. Kim, C.B. Eom, H. Kohlstedt, and R. Waser."Size effects in ultrathin epitaxial ferroelectric heterostructures."Applied Physics Letters 84 (2004) 5225-5227. DOI

1999

Shreekala, R., M. Rajeswari, R.C. Srivastava, K. Ghosh, A. Goyal, V.V. Srinivasu, S.E. Lofland, S.M. Bhagat, M. Downes, R.P. Sharma, S.B. Ogale, R.L. Greene, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, T. Venkatesan, R.A. Rao, and C.B. Eom."Ferromagnetism at room temperature in La0.8Ca0.2MnO3 thin films."Applied Physics Letters 74 (1999) 1886-1888. DOI