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)

2010

Pantel, D., Y.-H. Chu, L.W. Martin, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, D. Hesse, and M. Alexe."Switching kinetics in epitaxial BiFeO3 thin films."Journal of Applied Physics 107 (2010). DOI

2009

Pintilie, L., C. Dragoi, Y.H. Chu, L.W. Martin, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and M. Alexe."Orientation-dependent potential barriers in case of epitaxial Pt- BiFeO3 - SrRuO3 capacitors."Applied Physics Letters 94 (2009). DOI

2005

Pintilie, L., I. Boerasu, M.J.M. Gomes, T. Zhao, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and M. Alexe."Metal-ferroelectric-metal structures with Schottky contacts. II. Analysis of the experimental current-voltage and capacitance-voltage characteristics of Pb (Zr,Ti) O 3 thin films."Journal of Applied Physics 98 (2005). DOI

2003

Luo, Y., I. Szafraniak, V. Nagarajan, R.B. Wehrspohn, M. Steinhart, J.H. Wendorff, N.D. Zakharov, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, M. Alexe, LaFan D.A., Ayon A.A., Madou M.J., and McNie M.E.."Ferroelectric lead zirconate titanate and barium titanate nanoshell tubes."Materials Research Society Symposium - Proceedings 782 (2003) 415-420.

Luo, Y., I. Szafraniak, V. Nagarajan, R.B. Wehrspohn, M. Steinhart, J.H. Wendorff, N.D. Zakharov, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and M. Alexe."Ferroelectric lead zirconate titanate and barium titanate nanotubes."Integrated Ferroelectrics 59 (2003) 1513-1520. DOI

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.

Steinhart, M., Y. Luo, M. Alexe, Z. Jia, A.K. Schaper, R.B. Wehrspohn, J.H. Wendorff, V. Nagarajan, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and U. Gösele."Functionalized nanotubes by wetting of porous templates."VDI Berichte (2003) 161-164.

Luo, Y., I. Szafraniak, N.D. Zakharov, V. Nagarajan, M. Steinhart, R.B. Wehrspohn, J.H. Wendorff, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and M. Alexe."Nanoshell tubes of ferroelectric lead zirconate titanate and barium titanate."Applied Physics Letters 83 (2003) 440-442. DOI