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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.
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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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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)

2014

Choi, Sung-Hwa, Jae-Sung Kim, Ji-Yeon Lee, Ji-Suk Jeon, Ju-Wan Kim, Richard E Russo, Jhanis J Gonzalez, Jong-Hyun Yoo, Kyung-Su Park, and Jung-Seok Yang."Analysis of arsenic in rice grain using ICP-MS and fs LA-ICP-MS."Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry 29.7 (2014). DOI

Quarles Jr, C. C Derrick, Jhanis J Gonzalez, Lucille J East, Jong-Hyun Yoo, Mark Morey, and Richard E Russo."Fluorine analysis using Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS)."Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry 29.7 (2014). DOI

Lee, Seok-Hee, Chan-Kyu Kim, Hee-Sang Shim, Jong-Hyun Yoo, Richard E Russo, and Sungho Jeong."Ablation and spectroscopic characteristics of thin CuIn_1-xGa_xSe₂ solar cell films fabricated by co-evaporation and co-sputtering processes."International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing-Green Technology 1.1 (2014) 17-24. DOI

2013

Russo, Richard E, Xianglei Mao, Jhanis J Gonzalez, Vassilia Zorba, and Jong-Hyun Yoo."Laser ablation in analytical chemistry."Analytical Chemistry 85.13 (2013) 6162-6177. DOI

Russo, Richard E, Xianglei Mao, Jhanis J Gonzalez, and Jong-Hyun Yoo."Femtosecond vs. nanosecond laser pulse duration for laser ablation chemical analysis."Spectroscopy 28.1 (2013) 24-39.

2012

Oztoprak, Belgin G, Jhanis J Gonzalez, Jong-Hyun Yoo, Turgay Gulecen, Nazim Mutlu, Richard E Russo, Ozcan Gundogdu, and Arif Demir."Analysis and Classification of Heterogeneous Kidney Stones Using Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS)."Applied spectroscopy 66.11 (2012) 1353-1361. DOI

Bol'shakov, Alexander A, Jong-Hyun Yoo, Jhanis J Gonzalez, Chunyi Liu, and Richard E Russo."Direct Real-Time Determination of Compositional Profiles in Structured Materials Using Laser Ablation Instruments: LIBS and LA-ICP-MS."Applied Industrial Optics: Spectroscopy, Imaging and Metrology (2012). DOI

Lee, Seok-Hee, Hee-Sang Shim, Chan-Kyu Kim, Jong-Hyun Yoo, Richard E Russo, and Sungho Jeong."Analysis of the absorption layer of CIGS solar cell by laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy."Applied Optics 51.7 (2012) B115-B120. DOI

Russo, Richard E, Alexander A Bol'shakov, Jong-Hyun Yoo, and Jhanis J Gonzalez."Laser ablation plasmas for diagnostics of structured electronic and optical materials during or after laser processing."Laser Applications in Microelectronic and Optoelectronic Manufacturing (LAMOM) XVII 8243 (2012) 82430A-1. DOI

2011

Russo, Richard E, Timothy W Suen, Alexander A Bol'shakov, Jong-Hyun Yoo, Osman Sorkhabi, Xianglei Mao, Jhanis J Gonzalez, Dayana D Oropeza, and Vassilia Zorba."Laser plasma spectrochemistry."Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry 26.8 (2011) 1596-1603. DOI

2010

Bol'shakov, Alexander A, Jong-Hyun Yoo, Chunyi Liu, John R Plumer, and Richard E Russo."Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy in industrial and security applications."Applied Optics 49.13 (2010) C132-C142. DOI

2009

Bol'shakov, Alexander A, Jong-Hyun Yoo, Chunyi Liu, and Richard E Russo."Discrimination of complex substances with laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy."Spectroscopy 24.10 (2009) 36-44.

2008

Russo, Richard E, Xianglei Mao, Jong-Hyun Yoo, Jhanis J Gonzalez, P. P Singh Jagdish, and Thakur Surya Narayan."Laser Ablation."Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (2008) 49-79.

2005

Gonzalez, Jhanis J, Chunyi Liu, Jong-Hyun Yoo, Xianglei Mao, and Richard E Russo."Double-pulse laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry."Spectrochimica Acta Part B-Atomic Spectroscopy 60 (2005) 27-31.

2004

Zeng, Xianzhong, Xianglei Mao, Samuel S Mao, Jong-Hyun Yoo, Ralph Greif, and Richard E Russo."Laser-plasma interactions in fused silica cavities."Journal of Applied Physics 95 (2004) 816-822.

2001

Yoo, Jong-Hyun, Sungho Jeong, Xianglei Mao, Ralph Greif, and Richard E Russo."Response to "Comment on 'Evidence for phase explosion and generation of large particles during high power nanosecond laser ablation of silicon'"."Applied Physics Letters 79.3 (2001) 444-445. DOI

Yoo, Jong-Hyun, Oleg V Borisov, Xianglei Mao, and Richard E Russo."Existence of phase explosion during laser ablation and its effects on inductively coupled plasma-mass spectroscopy."Analytical Chemistry 73.10 (2001) 2288-2293. DOI

2000

Yoo, Jong-Hyun, Sungho Jeong, Ralph Greif, and Richard E Russo."Explosive change in crater properties during high power nanosecond laser ablation of silicon."Journal of Applied Physics 88.3 (2000) 1638-1649. DOI

Yoo, Jong-Hyun, Sungho Jeong, Xianglei Mao, Ralph Greif, and Richard E Russo."Evidence for phase-explosion and generation of large particles during high power nanosecond laser ablation of silicon."Applied Physics Letters 76.6 (2000) 783-785. DOI

1999

Russo, Richard E, Xianglei Mao, Haichen Liu, Jong-Hyun Yoo, and Samuel S Mao."Time-resolved plasma diagnostics and mass removal during single-pulse laser ablation."Applied Physics A: Materials Science & Processing 69.1 Supplement (1999) S887-S894. DOI

Liu, Haichen, Xianglei Mao, Jong-Hyun Yoo, and Richard E Russo."Early phase laser induced plasma diagnostics and mass removal during single-pulse laser ablation of silicon."Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic Spectroscopy 54.11 (1999) 1607-1624. DOI

Jeong, Sungho, Oleg V Borisov, Jong-Hyun Yoo, Xianglei Mao, and Richard E Russo."Effects of particle size distribution on inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry signal intensity during laser ablation of glass samples."Analytical Chemistry 71.22 (1999) 5123-5130. DOI

Liu, Haichen, Xianglei Mao, Jong-Hyun Yoo, and Richard E Russo."Nonlinear changes in plasma and crater properties during laser ablation of Si."Applied Physics Letters 75.9 (1999) 1216-1218. DOI

1998

Mao, Samuel S, Xianglei Mao, Jong-Hyun Yoo, Ralph Greif, and Richard E Russo."Thermionic electron emission from narrow band-gap semiconductors under picosecond laser excitation."Journal of Applied Physics 83 (1998) 4462-4465.