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)

2017

Mundy, J.A., J. Schaab, Y. Kumagai, A. Cano, M. Stengel, I.P. Krug, D.M. Gottlob, H. Doǧanay, M.E. Holtz, R. Held, Z. Yan, E. Bourret, C.M. Schneider, D.G. Schlom, D.A. Muller, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, N.A. Spaldin, and D. Meier."Functional electronic inversion layers at ferroelectric domain walls."Nature Materials 16 (2017) 622-627. DOI

2016

Schaab, J., A. Cano, M. Lilienblum, Z. Yan, E. Bourret, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, M. Fiebig, and D. Meier."Optimization of Electronic Domain-Wall Properties by Aliovalent Cation Substitution."Advanced Electronic Materials 2 (2016). DOI

2015

Yan, Z., D. Meier, J. Schaab, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, E. Samulon, and E. Bourret."Growth of high-quality hexagonal ErMnO3 single crystals by the pressurized floating-zone method."Journal of Crystal Growth 409 (2015) 75-79. DOI

2014

Schaab, J., M. Trassin, A. Scholl, A. Doran, Z. Yan, E. Bourret, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, D. Meier, and Dalmas M.."Ferroelectric domains in the multiferroic phase of ErMnO3 imaged by low-temperature photoemission electron microscopy."Journal of Physics: Conference Series 592 (2014). DOI

Becher, C., M. Trassin, M. Lilienblum, C.T. Nelson, S.J. Suresha, D. Yi, P. Yu, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, M. Fiebig, and D. Meier."Functional ferroic heterostructures with tunable integral symmetry."Nature Communications 5 (2014). DOI

Schaab, J., I.P. Krug, F. Nickel, D.M. Gottlob, Doǧ Anay, A. Cano, M. Hentschel, Z. Yan, E. Bourret, C.M. Schneider, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and D. Meier."Imaging and characterization of conducting ferroelectric domain walls by photoemission electron microscopy."Applied Physics Letters 104 (2014). DOI

2013

Meier, D., M. Lilienblum, P. C. Becker, L. Bohatý, N.A. Spaldin, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and M. Fiebig."Translation domains in multiferroics."Phase Transitions 86 (2013) 33-52. DOI

2012

Meier, D., J. Seidel, A. Cano, K. Delaney, Y. Kumagai, M. Mostovoy, N.A. Spaldin, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and M. Fiebig."Anisotropic conductance at improper ferroelectric domain walls."Nature Materials 11 (2012) 284-288. DOI

Meier, D., H. Ryll, K. Kiefer, B. Klemke, J.-U. Hoffmann, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and M. Fiebig."Mutual induction of magnetic 3d and 4f order in multiferroic hexagonal ErMnO 3."Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 86 (2012). DOI

Koralek, J.D., D. Meier, J.P. Hinton, A. Bauer, S.A. Parameswaran, A. Vishwanath, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, R.W. Schoenlein, C. Pfleiderer, and J. Orenstein."Observation of coherent helimagnons and gilbert damping in an itinerant magnet."Physical Review Letters 109 (2012). DOI