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

Hong, Z, A.R Damodaran, F Xue, S.-L Hsu, J Britson, A.K Yadav, C.T Nelson, J.-J Wang, J.F Scott, L.W Martin, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and L.-Q Chen."Stability of Polar Vortex Lattice in Ferroelectric Superlattices."Nano Letters 17 (2017) 2246-2252. DOI

2016

Yadav, A.K, C.T Nelson, S.L Hsu, Z Hong, J.D Clarkson, C.M Schlepütz, A.R Damodaran, P Shafer, E Arenholz, L.R Dedon, D Chen, A Vishwanath, A.M Minor, L.Q Chen, J.F Scott, L.W Martin, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Erratum: Observation of polar vortices in oxide superlattices (Nature (2016) 530 (198-201) DOI:10.1038/nature16463)."Nature 534 (2016) 138. DOI

Yadav, A.K, C.T Nelson, S.L Hsu, Z Hong, J.D Clarkson, C.M Schlepuëtz, A.R Damodaran, P Shafer, E Arenholz, L.R Dedon, D Chen, A Vishwanath, A.M Minor, L.Q Chen, J.F Scott, L.W Martin, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Observation of polar vortices in oxide superlattices."Nature 530 (2016) 198-201. DOI

2012

Catalan, G, J Seidel, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and J.F Scott."Domain wall nanoelectronics."Reviews of Modern Physics 84 (2012) 119-156. DOI

He, Q, C.-H Yeh, J.-C Yang, G Singh-Bhalla, C.-W Liang, P.-W Chiu, G Catalan, L.W Martin, Y.-H Chu, J.F Scott, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Magnetotransport at domain walls in BiFeO 3."Physical Review Letters 108 (2012). DOI

Seidel, J, W Luo, S.J Suresha, P.-K Nguyen, A.S Lee, S.-Y Kim, C.-H Yang, S.J Pennycook, S.T Pantelides, J.F Scott, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Prominent electrochromism through vacancy-order melting in a complex oxide."Nature Communications 3 (2012). DOI

2010

Yang, S.Y, J Seidel, S.J Byrnes, P Shafer, C.-H Yang, M.D Rossell, P Yu, Y.-H Chu, J.F Scott, Joel W Ager, L.W Martin, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Above-bandgap voltages from ferroelectric photovoltaic devices."Nature Nanotechnology 5 (2010) 143-147. DOI

2009

Seidel, J, L.W Martin, Q He, Q Zhan, Y.-H Chu, A Rother, M.E Hawkridge, P Maksymovych, P Yu, M Gajek, N Balke, S.V Kalinin, S Gemming, F Wang, G Catalan, J.F Scott, N.A Spaldin, J Orenstein, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Conduction at domain walls in oxide multiferroics."Nature Materials 8 (2009) 229-234. DOI

2003

Morrison, F.D, Y Luo, I Szafraniak, V Nagarajan, R.B Wehrspohn, M Steinhart, J.H Wendorff, N.D Zakharov, E.D Mishina, K.A Vorotilov, A.S Sigov, S Nakabayashi, M Alexe, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and J.F Scott."Ferroelectric nanotubes."Reviews on Advanced Materials Science 4 (2003) 114-122.

2002

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.

1998

Auciello, O, J.F Scott, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."The physics of ferroelectric memories."Physics Today 51 (1998) 22-27. DOI