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)

2020

Cheema, S.S., D. Kwon, N. Shanker, dos Reis, S.-L. Hsu, J. Xiao, H. Zhang, R. Wagner, A. Datar, M.R. McCarter, C.R. Serrao, A.K. Yadav, G. Karbasian, C.-H. Hsu, A.J. Tan, L.-C. Wang, V. Thakare, X. Zhang, A. Mehta, E. Karapetrova, R.V. Chopdekar, P. Shafer, E. Arenholz, C. Hu, R. Proksch, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, J. Ciston, and S. Salahuddin."Enhanced ferroelectricity in ultrathin films grown directly on silicon."Nature 580 (2020) 478-482. DOI

2017

Bakaul, S.R., C.R. Serrao, O. Lee, Z. Lu, A. Yadav, C. Carraro, R. Maboudian, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and S. Salahuddin."High Speed Epitaxial Perovskite Memory on Flexible Substrates."Advanced Materials 29 (2017). DOI

Chen, D., C.T. Nelson, X. Zhu, C.R. Serrao, J.D. Clarkson, Z. Wang, Y. Gao, S.-L. Hsu, L.R. Dedon, Z. Chen, D. Yi, H.-J. Liu, D. Zeng, Y.-H. Chu, J. F. Liu, D.G. Schlom, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."A Strain-Driven Antiferroelectric-to-Ferroelectric Phase Transition in La-Doped BiFeO3 Thin Films on Si."Nano Letters 17 (2017) 5823-5829. DOI

2016

Ravichandran, J., C.R. Serrao, D.K. Efetov, D. Yi, Y.S. Oh, S.-W. Cheong, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and P. Kim."Ambipolar transport and magneto-resistance crossover in a Mott insulator, Sr2IrO4."Journal of Physics Condensed Matter 28 (2016). DOI

Yia, D., J. F. Liu, S.-L. Hsu, L. Zhang, Y. Choi, J.-W. Kim, Z. Chen, J.D. Clarkson, C.R. Serrao, E. Arenholz, P.J. Ryan, H. Xu, R.J. Birgeneau, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Atomic-scale control of magnetic anisotropy via novel spin-orbit coupling effect in La2/3Sr1/3MnO3/SrIrO3 superlattices."Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 113 (2016) 6397-6402. DOI

Bakaul, S.R., C.R. Serrao, M. Lee, C.W. Yeung, A. Sarker, S.-L. Hsu, A.K. Yadav, L. Dedon, L. You, A.I. Khan, J.D. Clarkson, C. Hu, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and S. Salahuddin."Single crystal functional oxides on silicon."Nature Communications 7 (2016). DOI

Krupin, O., G.L. Dakovski, B.J. Kim, J.W. Kim, J. Kim, S. Mishra, Y.-D. Chuang, C.R. Serrao, W.-S. Lee, W.F. Schlotter, M.P. Minitti, D. Zhu, D. Fritz, M. Chollet, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, S.L. Molodtsov, and J.J. Turner."Ultrafast dynamics of localized magnetic moments in the unconventional Mott insulator Sr2IrO4."Journal of Physics Condensed Matter 28 (2016). DOI

2015

Liu, X., M.P.M. Dean, J. F. Liu, S.G. Chiuzbəian, N. Jaouen, A. Nicolaou, W.G. Yin, C.R. Serrao, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, H. Ding, and J.P. Hill."Probing single magnon excitations in Sr2IrO4 using O K-edge resonant inelastic x-ray scattering."Journal of Physics Condensed Matter 27 (2015). DOI