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)

2020

Tang, Xiaochen, Sébastien Houzé de l’Aulnoit, Mark T Buelow, Jonathan L Slack, Brett C Singer, and Hugo Destaillats."Performance of a CO2 sorbent for indoor air cleaning applications: Effects of environmental conditions, sorbent aging, and adsorption of co-occurring formaldehyde."Indoor Air (2020). DOI

2019

Less, Brennan, Iain S Walker, Jonathan L Slack, Leo I Rainer, and Ronnen M Levinson."Sealed and Insulated Attic Hygrothermal Performance in New California Homes Using Vapor and Air Permeable Insulation—Field Study and Simulations." (2019).

Levinson, Ronnen M, Howdy Goudey, Sharon S Chen, Haley E Gilbert, George A Ban-Weiss, Joseph Ko, Yun Li, Arash Mohegh, Angie Rodriguez, Jonathan L Slack, Haider Taha, Tianbo Tang, and Jiachen Zhang."Monitoring the Urban Heat Island Effect and the Efficacy of Future Countermeasures." (2019). DOI

2012

Maddalena, Randy L, Melissa M Lunden, Daniel L Wilson, Cristina Ceballos, Thomas W Kirchstetter, Jonathan L Slack, and Larry L Dale."Quantifying Stove Emissions Related to Different Use Patterns for the Silver‐mini (Small Turkish) Space Heating Stove." (2012).

2008

Anders, André, Jonathan L Slack, and Thomas J Richardson."Electrochromically switched, gas-reservoir metal hydride devices with application to energy-efficient windows."Thin Solid Films 1 (2008).

2006

Slack, Jonathan L, James C.W Locke, Seung-Wan Song, Jason Ona, and Thomas J Richardson."Metal hydride switchable mirrors: Factors influencing dynamic range and stability."Solor Energy MaterialsSolar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 90.4 (2006) 485-490. DOI

2003

Richardson, Thomas J, and Jonathan L Slack."Lithium-Based Electrochromic Mirrors."203rd Meeting of the Electrochemical Society (2003).

2002

Richardson, Thomas J, Baker Farangis, Jonathan L Slack, Ponnusamy Nachimuthu, Rupert C.C Perera, Nobumichi Tamura, and Michael D Rubin."X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy of Transition Metal-Magnesium Hydride Thin Films."Journal of Alloys and Compounds 356-357 (2002) 204-207. DOI

Farangis, Baker, Ponnusamy Nachimuthu, Thomas J Richardson, Jonathan L Slack, Rupert C.C Perera, Eric M Gullikson, Dennis W Lindle, and Michael D Rubin."In Situ X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy Study of Hydrogen Absorption by Nickel-Magnesium Thin Films."Physical Review B 67.8 (2002). DOI

Farangis, Baker, Ponnusamy Nachimuthu, Thomas J Richardson, Jonathan L Slack, Bruno K Meyer, Rupert C.C Perera, and Michael D Rubin."Structural and Electronic Properties of Magnesium-3D Transition Metal Switchable Mirrors."Fifth International Meeting on Electrochromism (2002). DOI

Lee, Eleanor S, L Zhou, Mehry Yazdanian, Vorapat Inkarojrit, Jonathan L Slack, Michael D Rubin, and Stephen E Selkowitz."Energy Performance Analysis of Electrochromic Windows in New York Commercial Office Buildings." (2002).

2001

Richardson, Thomas J, Jonathan L Slack, Baker Farangis, and Michael D Rubin."Mixed Metal Films with Switchable Optical Properties."Applied Physics Letters 80.8 (2001) 1349-1351. DOI

Richardson, Thomas J, Jonathan L Slack, Robert D Armitage, Robert Kostecki, Baker Farangis, and Michael D Rubin."Switchable Mirrors Based on Nickel-Magnesium Films."Applied Physics Letters 78.20 (2001) 3047-3049. DOI

2000

Richardson, Thomas J, Jonathan L Slack, and Michael D Rubin."Electrochromism in Copper Oxide Thin Films."4th International Meeting on Electrochromism (2000).

1998

Richardson, Thomas J, Klaus von Rottkay, Jonathan L Slack, Franck Michalak, and Michael D Rubin."Tungsten-Vanadium Oxide Sputtered Films for Electrochromic Devices."Electrochemical Society: Molecular Functions of Electroactive Thin Films 98-26 (1998).

von Rottkay, Klaus, Michael D Rubin, Franck Michalak, Robert D Armitage, Thomas J Richardson, Jonathan L Slack, and Peter A Duine."Effect of Hydrogen Insertion on the Optical Properties of PD-Coated Magnesium Lanthanides."Electrochimica Acta (1998).

Rubin, Michael D, Shi-Jie Wen, Thomas J Richardson, John B Kerr, Klaus von Rottkay, and Jonathan L Slack."Electrochromic lithium nickel oxide by pulsed laser deposition and sputtering."Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 54.1-4 (1998) 59-66. DOI

Michalak, Franck, Klaus von Rottkay, Thomas J Richardson, Jonathan L Slack, and Michael D Rubin."Electrochromic Lithium Nickel Oxide Thin Films by RF-Sputtering from a LiNiO₂ Target."Electrochimica Acta 44 (1998) 3085-3092.

1997

von Rottkay, Klaus, Thomas J Richardson, Michael D Rubin, Jonathan L Slack, and Lisen Kullman."Influence of stoichiometry on the electrochromic cerium-titanium oxide compounds."11th International Conference of Solid State Ionics (1997).

von Rottkay, Klaus, Thomas J Richardson, Michael D Rubin, and Jonathan L Slack."Effective Medium Approximation of the Optical properties of electrochromic cerium-titanium oxide compounds."SPIE Proceedings 3138 (1997) 19-Sep.

1996

Rubin, Michael D, Klaus von Rottkay, Shi-Jie Wen, Nilgün Özer, and Jonathan L Slack."Optical Indices of Lithiated Electrochromic Oxides."Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 54.1-4 (1996) 49-57. DOI

Wen, Shi-Jie, John B Kerr, Michael D Rubin, Jonathan L Slack, and Klaus von Rottkay."Analysis of Durability in Lithium Nickel Oxide Electrochromic Materials and Devices."2nd International Meeting on Electrochromism (1996).