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)

2018

Lee, Yonghoon, Xianglei Mao, George C.Y Chan, Jhanis J Gonzalez, Richard E Russo, and Vassilia Zorba."Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Metal Atoms and their Diatomic Oxide Molecules in Femtosecond Laser-Induced Plasmas."Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry (2018). DOI

Hai, Ran, Xianglei Mao, George C.Y Chan, Richard E Russo, Hongbin Ding, and Vassilia Zorba."Internal mixing dynamics of Cu/Sn-Pb plasmas produced by femtosecond laser ablation."Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic Spectroscopy 148 (2018) 92 - 98. DOI

2014

Dong, Meirong, George C.Y Chan, Xianglei Mao, Jhanis J Gonzalez, Jidong Lu, and Richard E Russo."Elucidation of C₂ and CN formation mechanisms in laser-induced plasmas through correlation analysis of carbon isotopic ratio."Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic Spectroscopy 100 (2014) 62-69. DOI

2013

Choi, Inhee, George C.Y Chan, Xianglei Mao, Dale L Perry, and Richard E Russo."Line Selection and Parameter Optimization for Trace Analysis of Uranium in Glass Matrices by Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS)."Applied Spectroscopy 67.11 (2013) 1275-1284. DOI

Chan, George C.Y, Xianglei Mao, Inhee Choi, Arnab Sarkar, Oanh P Lam, David K Shuh, and Richard E Russo."Multiple emission line analysis for improved isotopic determination of uranium—a computer simulation study."Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic Spectroscopy 89 (2013) 40-49. DOI

Sarkar, Arnab, Xianglei Mao, George C.Y Chan, and Richard E Russo."Laser ablation molecular isotopic spectrometry of water for ₁D²/₁H¹ ratio analysis."Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic Spectroscopy 88 (2013) 46-53. DOI

2001

Chan, George C.Y, Wing-Tat Chan, Xianglei Mao, and Richard E Russo."Comparison of matrix effects in inductively coupled plasma using laser ablation and solution nebulization for dry and wet plasma conditions."Spectrochimica Acta Part B-Atomic Spectroscopy 56 (2001) 1375-1386.

Chan, George C.Y, Wing-Tat Chan, Xianglei Mao, and Richard E Russo."Investigation of matrix effects in inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectroscopy using laser ablation and solution nebulization - effect of second ionization potential."Spectrochimica Acta Part B-Atomic Spectroscopy 56 (2001) 77-92.

2000

Chan, George C.Y, Wing-Tat Chan, Xianglei Mao, and Richard E Russo."Investigation of matrix effect on dry inductively coupled plasma conditions using laser ablation sampling."Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic Spectroscopy 55.3 (2000) 221-235. DOI