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)

2007

Ouyang, J, J Slusker, I Levin, D.-M Kim, C.-B Eom, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and A.L Roytburd."Engineering of self-assembled domain architectures with ultra-high piezoelectric response in epitaxial ferroelectric films."Advanced Functional Materials 17 (2007) 2094-2100. DOI

2006

Ouyang, J, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and A.L Roytburd."Theoretical investigation of the intrinsic piezoelectric properties for tetragonal BaTiO 3 epitaxial films."Applied Surface Science 252 (2006) 3394-3400. DOI

Kim, D.M, C.B Eom, V Nagarajan, J Ouyang, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, V Vaithyanathan, and D.G Schlom."Thickness dependence of structural and piezoelectric properties of epitaxial Pb(Zr 0.52Ti 0.48)O 3 films on Si and SrTiO 3 substrates."Applied Physics Letters 88 (2006). DOI

2005

Ma, Z, F Zavaliche, L Chen, J Ouyang, J Melngailis, A.L Roytburd, V Vaithyanathan, D.G Schlom, T Zhao, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Effect of 90° domain movement on the piezoelectric response of patterned PbZr 0.2 Ti 0.8 O 3 SrTiO 3 Si heterostructures."Applied Physics Letters 87 (2005). DOI

Ouyang, J, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and A.L Roytburd."Effective direct piezoelectric constants in epitaxial ferroelectric films as MEMS sensors."Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings 881 (2005) 125-130.

Yang, S, B Liu, J Ouyang, V Nagarajan, V.N Kulkarni, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, J Kidder, R Droopad, and K Eisenbeiser."Epitaxial Pb(Zr,Ti)O 3 capacitors on Si by liquid delivery metalorganic chemical vapor deposition."Journal of Electroceramics 14 (2005) 37-44. DOI

Ouyang, J, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and A.L Roytburd."Intrinsic effective piezoelectric coefficient e 31,f for ferroelectric thin films."Applied Physics Letters 86 (2005) 1-3. DOI

Ouyang, J, D.M Kim, C.B Eom, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and A.L Roytburd."Orientation dependence of the intrinsic converse longitudinal piezoelectric constant for 0.67Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3-0. 33PbTiO3 ferroelectric films with a rhombohedral structure."Smart Materials and Structures 14 (2005) 524-528. DOI

Li, J, I Levin, J Slutsker, V Provenzano, P.K Schenck, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, J Ouyang, and A.L Roytburd."Self-assembled multiferroic nanostructures in the Co Fe 2 O 4 -PbTi O 3 system."Applied Physics Letters 87 (2005). DOI

Ouyang, J, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and A.L Roytburd."Theoretical predictions for the intrinsic converse longitudinal piezoelectric constants of lead zirconate titanate epitaxial films."Advanced Engineering Materials 7 (2005) 229-232. DOI

2004

Chen, L, J Ouyang, C.S Ganpule, V Nagarajan, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and A.L Roytburd."Formation of 90° elastic domains during local 180° switching in epitaxial ferroelectric thin films."Applied Physics Letters 84 (2004) 254-256. DOI

Ouyang, J, S.Y Yang, L Chen, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and A.L Roytburd."Orientation dependence of the converse piezoelectric constants for epitaxial single domain ferroelectric films."Applied Physics Letters 85 (2004) 278-280. DOI

Nagarajan, V, S Prasertchoung, T Zhao, H Zheng, J Ouyang, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, W Tian, X.Q Pan, D.M Kim, C.B Eom, H Kohlstedt, and R Waser."Size effects in ultrathin epitaxial ferroelectric heterostructures."Applied Physics Letters 84 (2004) 5225-5227. DOI