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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)

2013

Guo, R., L. You, Y. Zhou, Z.S. Lim, X. Zou, L. Chen, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and J. Wang."Non-volatile memory based on the ferroelectric."Nature Communications 4 (2013). DOI

2010

Huang, C.W., Y.H. Chu, Z.H. Chen, J. Wang, T. Sritharan, Q. He, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and L. Chen."Strain-driven phase transitions and associated dielectric/piezoelectric anomalies in BiFeO3 thin films."Applied Physics Letters 97 (2010). DOI

2009

Huang, C.W., L. Chen, J. Wang, Q. He, S.Y. Yang, Y.H. Chu, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Phenomenological analysis of domain width in rhombohedral BiFeO3 films."Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 80 (2009). 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

2004

Li, J.-H., L. Chen, V. Nagarajan, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and A.L. Roytburd."Finite element modeling of piezoresponse in nanostructured ferroelectric films."Applied Physics Letters 84 (2004) 2626-2628. DOI

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

2003

Nagarajan, V., A. Roytburd, A. Stanishevsky, S. Prasertchoung, T. Zhao, L. Chen, J. Melngailis, O. Auciello, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Dynamics of ferroelastic domains in ferroelectric thin films."Nature Materials 2 (2003) 43-47. DOI

Chen, L., V. Nagarajan, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and A.L. Roytburd."Nonlinear electric field dependence of piezoresponse in epitaxial ferroelectric lead zirconate titanate thin films."Journal of Applied Physics 94 (2003) 5147-5152. DOI

2002

Nagarajan, V., A. Stanishevsky, L. Chen, T. Zhao, B.-T. Liu, J. Melngailis, A.L. Roytburd, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, J. Finder, Z. Yu, R. Droopad, and K. Eisenbeiser."Realizing intrinsic piezoresponse in epitaxial submicron lead zirconate titanate capacitors on Si."Applied Physics Letters 81 (2002) 4215-4217. DOI

1998

Zhao, Y.G., J.J. Li, R. Shreekala, H.D. Drew, C.L. Chen, W.L. Cao, C.H. Lee, M. Rajeswari, S.B. Ogale, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, G. Baskaran, and T. Venkatesan."Ultrafast laser induced conductive and resistive transients in La0.7Ca0.3MnO3: Charge transfer and relaxation dynamics."Physical Review Letters 81 (1998) 1310-1313. DOI

1993

Huang, C.W., Y.H. Chu, Z.H. Chen, J. Wang, T. Sritharan, L. Chen, Q. He, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Strain-driven phase transitions and associated dielectric/piezoelectric anomalies in BiFeO3 thin films."IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 39 (1993) 1049-1053. DOI