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.
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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)

2002

Ganpule, C.S, V Nagarajan, B.K Hill, A.L Roytburd, E.D Williams, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, S.P Alpay, A Roelofs, R Waser, and L.M Eng."Imaging three-dimensional polarization in epitaxial polydomain ferroelectric thin films."Journal of Applied Physics 91 (2002) 1477-1481. DOI

Ganpule, C.S, A.L Roytburd, V Nagarajan, B.K Hill, S.B Ogale, E.D Williams, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and J.F Scott."Polarization relaxation kinetics and 180° domain wall dynamics in ferroelectric thin films."Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 65 (2002) 1-7. DOI

Ganpule, C.S, A.L Roytburd, V Nagarajan, B.K Hill, S.B Ogale, E.D Williams, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and J.F Scott."Polarization relaxation kinetics and 180° domain wall dynamics in ferroelectric thin films."Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 65 (2002) 141011-141017.

2001

Nagarajan, V, C.S Ganpule, H Li, L Salamanca-Riba, A.L Roytburd, E.D Williams, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Control of domain structure of epitaxial PbZr0.2Ti0.8O3 thin films grown on vicinal (001) SrTiO3 substrates."Applied Physics Letters 79 (2001) 2805-2807. DOI

Ganpule, C.S, A.L Roytburd, V Nagarajan, A Stanishevsky, J Melngailis, E.D Williams, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Nanoscale electromechanical phenomena in ferroelectric thin films."Materials Research Society Symposium - Proceedings 655 (2001) XVI-XVII.

Aggarwal, S, S.B Ogale, C.S Ganpule, S.R Shinde, V.A Novikov, A.P Monga, M.R Burr, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, V Ballarotto, and E.D Williams."Oxide nanostructures through self-assembly."Applied Physics Letters 78 (2001) 1442-1444. DOI

Shinde, S.R, S.B Ogale, V Novikov, A.S Ogale, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, E.D Williams, and S Aggarwal."Self-organized pattern formation in the oxidation of supported iron thin films. I. An experimental study."Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 64 (2001). DOI

2000

Ganpule, C.S, V Nagarajan, S.B Ogale, A.L Roytburd, E.D Williams, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Domain nucleation and relaxation kinetics in ferroelectric thin films."Applied Physics Letters 77 (2000) 3275-3277. DOI

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.

Roytburd, A.L, S.P Alpay, V Nagarajan, C.S Ganpule, S Aggarwal, E.D Williams, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Measurement of internal stresses via the polarization in epitaxial ferroelectric films."Physical Review Letters 85 (2000) 190-193. DOI

Nagarajan, V, S.P Alpay, C.S Ganpule, B.K Nagaraj, S Aggarwal, E.D Williams, A.L Roytburd, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Role of substrate on the dielectric and piezoelectric behavior of epitaxial lead magnesium niobate-lead titanate relaxor thin films."Applied Physics Letters 77 (2000) 438-440. DOI

Aggarwal, S, A.P Monga, S.R Perusse, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, V Ballarotto, E.D Williams, B.R Chalamala, Y Wei, and R.H Reuss."Spontaneous ordering of oxide nanostructures."Science 287 (2000) 2235-2237. DOI

1999

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