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)

2012

Maksymovych, P, M Huijben, M Pan, S Jesse, N Balke, Y.-H Chu, H.J Chang, A.Y Borisevich, A.P Baddorf, G Rijnders, D.H.A Blank, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and S.V Kalinin."Ultrathin limit and dead-layer effects in local polarization switching of BiFeO 3."Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 85 (2012). DOI

2011

Chang, H.J, S.V Kalinin, A.N Morozovska, M Huijben, Y.-H Chu, P Yu, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, E.A Eliseev, G.S Svechnikov, S.J Pennycook, and A.Y Borisevich."Atomically resolved mapping of polarization and electric fields across ferroelectric/oxide interfaces by z-contrast imaging."Advanced Materials 23 (2011) 2474-2479. DOI

2010

Zhang, T, J T Wen, Y Peles, T Tong, J Chang, Ravi S Prasher, and Michael K Jensen."Micro-thermal-fluid transient analysis and active control for two-phase microelectronics cooling."2010 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (2010). DOI

Borisevich, A.Y, O.S Ovchinnikov, H.J Chang, M.P Oxley, P Yu, J Seidel, E.A Eliseev, A.N Morozovska, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, S.J Pennycook, and S.V Kalinin."Mapping octahedral tilts and polarization across a domain wall in BiFeO3 from Z-contrast scanning transmission electron microscopy image atomic column shape analysis."ACS Nano 4 (2010) 6071-6079. DOI

Borisevich, A.Y, H.J Chang, M Huijben, M.P Oxley, S Okamoto, M.K Niranjan, J.D Burton, E.Y Tsymbal, Y.H Chu, P Yu, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, S.V Kalinin, and S.J Pennycook."Suppression of octahedral tilts and associated changes in electronic properties at epitaxial oxide heterostructure interfaces."Physical Review Letters 105 (2010). DOI

2009

Chang, H.J, A.Y Borisevich, N Balke, S.V Kalinin, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, M Huijben, and S.J Pennycook."Interfacial structure in multiferroic BiFeO3 thin films."Microscopy and Microanalysis 15 (2009) 1028-1029. DOI

Borisevich, A.Y, S.V Kalinin, A.R Lupini, S Jesse, H.J Chang, M Hujiben, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and S.J Pennycook."Using neural network algorithms for compositional mapping in STEM EELS."Microscopy and Microanalysis 15 (2009) 450-451. DOI