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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.

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Demand Response

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Building Technology (BTUS)

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1990

Hwang, D.M., T.S. Ravi, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, S.-W. Chan, C.Y. Chen, L. Nazar, X.D. Wu, A. Inam, and T. Venkatesan."Application of a near coincidence site lattice theory to the orientations of YBa2Cu3O7-x grains on (001) MgO substrates."Applied Physics Letters 57 (1990) 1690-1692. DOI

Ramesh, Ramamoorthy, D.M. Hwang, J.B. Barner, L. Nazar, T.S. Ravi, A. Inam, B. Dutta, X.D. Wu, and T. Venkatesan."Defect Structure of Laser Deposited Y-Ba-Cu-O Thin Films on Single Crystal MgO Substrate."Journal of Materials Research 5 (1990) 704-716. DOI

Ramesh, Ramamoorthy, D.M. Hwang, T. Venkatesan, T.S. Ravi, L. Nazar, A. Inam, X.D. Wu, B. Dutta, G. Thomas, A.F. Marshall, and T.H. Geballe."Direct observation of structural defects in laser-deposited superconducting Y-Ba-Cu-O thin films."Science 247 (1990) 57-59. DOI

Chang, C.C., T. Venkatesan, M.S. Hegde, D.M. Hwang, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, C.T. Rogers, A. Frenkel, E.W. Chase, L. Nazar, X.D. Wu, and A. Inam."Electron microscopy and spectroscopy for characterization of surface and film properties of high temperature superconductors."Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering 1187 (1990) 216-226. DOI

Hwang, D.M., Ramamoorthy Ramesh, C.Y. Chen, X.D. Wu, A. Inam, M.S. Hegde, B. Wilkens, C.C. Chang, L. Nazar, T. Venkatesan, S. Miura, S. Matsubara, Y. Miyasaka, and N. Shohata."Epitaxial relations between in situ superconducting YBa2Cu 3O7-x thin films and BaTiO3/MgAl 2O4/Si substrates."Journal of Applied Physics 68 (1990) 1772-1776. DOI

Venkatesan, T., A. Inam, B. Dutta, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, M.S. Hegde, X.D. Wu, L. Nazar, C.C. Chang, J.B. Barner, D.M. Hwang, and C.T. Rogers."Epitaxial Y1Ba2Cu3O7-y/Y 1-xPrxBa2Cu3O7-y heterostructures."Applied Physics Letters 56 (1990) 391-393. DOI

Ramesh, Ramamoorthy, D. Hwang, T.S. Ravi, A. Inam, J.B. Barner, L. Nazar, S.W. Chan, C.Y. Chen, B. Dutta, T. Venkatesan, and X.D. Wu."Epitaxy of Y-Ba-Cu-O thin films grown on single-crystal MgO."Applied Physics Letters 56 (1990) 2243-2245. DOI

Ravi, T.S., D.M. Hwang, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, S.W. Chan, L. Nazar, C.Y. Chen, A. Inam, and T. Venkatesan."Grain boundaries and interfaces in Y-Ba-Cu-O films laser deposited on single-crystal MgO."Physical Review B 42 (1990) 10141-10151. DOI

Inam, A., Q. Li, X.X. Xi, X.D. Wu, B. Dutta, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, J.A. Martinez, B. Wilkens, J. Barner, L. Nazar, D.M. Hwang, C.C. Chang, S.A. Schwarz, H. Dorsett, L. DiDomenico, C. Weiss, A. Findikoglu, D. Hemmick, J.M. Tarascon, C.T. Rogers, and T. Venkatesan."High tc superconducting electronics research at bellcore/rutgers."Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering 1187 (1990) 148-160. DOI

Li, Q., X.X. Xi, X.D. Wu, A. Inam, S. Vadlamannati, W.L. McLean, T. Venkatesan, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, D.M. Hwang, J.A. Martinez, and L. Nazar."Interlayer coupling effect in high-Tc superconductors probed by YBa2Cu3O7-x/PrBa2Cu3O7-x superlattices."Physical Review Letters 64 (1990) 3086-3089. DOI

1989

Ramesh, Ramamoorthy, A. Inam, W.A. Bonner, P. England, B.J. Wilkens, B.J. Meagher, L. Nazar, X.D. Wu, M.S. Hegde, C.C. Chang, T. Venkatesan, and H. Padamsee."Ferrimagnetic rare-earth orthoferrites: A new, magnetic substrate for the growth of epitaxial Y-Ba-Cu-O thin films."Applied Physics Letters 55 (1989) 1138-1140. DOI