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)

2005

Mohaddes-Ardabili, L., H. Zheng, Q. Zhan, S.Y. Yang, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, L. Salamanca-Riba, M. Wuttig, S.B. Ogale, and X. Pan."Size and shape evolution of embedded single-crystal α -Fe nanowires."Applied Physics Letters 87 (2005) 1-3. DOI

2004

Li, , J., J. Wang, M. Wuttig, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, N. Wang, B. Ruette, A.P. Pyatakov, A.K. Zvezdin, and D. Viehland."Dramatically enhanced polarization in (001), (101), and (111) BiFeO 3 thin films due to epitiaxial-induced transitions."Applied Physics Letters 84 (2004) 5261-5263. DOI

Wang, J., H. Zheng, Z. Ma, S. Prasertchoung, M. Wuttig, R. Droopad, J. Yu, K. Eisenbeiser, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Epitaxial BiFeO 3 thin films on Si."Applied Physics Letters 85 (2004) 2574-2576. DOI

Chang, K.-S., M.A. Aronova, C.-L. Lin, M. Murakami, M.-H. Yu, J. R. Hattrick-Simpers, O.O. Famodu, S.Y. Lee, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, M. Wuttig, I. Takeuchi, C. Gao, and L.A. Bendersky."Exploration of artificial multiferroic thin-film heterostructures using composition spreads."Applied Physics Letters 84 (2004) 3091-3093. DOI

Zheng, H., J. Wang, S.E. Lofland, Z. Ma, L. Mohaddes-Ardabili, T. Zhao, L. Salamanca-Riba, S.R. Shinde, S.B. Ogale, F. Bai, D. Viehland, Y. Jia, D.G. Schlom, M. Wuttig, A. Roytburd, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Multiferroic BaTiO3-CoFe2O4 Nanostructures."Science 303 (2004) 661-663. DOI

Mohaddes-Ardabili, L., H. Zheng, S.B. Ogale, B. Hannoyer, W. Tian, J. Wang, S.E. Lofland, S.R. Shinde, T. Zhao, Y. Jia, L. Salamanca-Riba, D.G. Schlom, M. Wuttig, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Self-assembled single-crystal ferromagnetic iron nanowires formed by decomposition."Nature Materials 3 (2004) 533-538. DOI

Zheng, H., J. Wang, L. Mohaddes-Ardabili, M. Wuttig, L. Salamanca-Riba, D.G. Schlom, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Three-dimensional heteroepitaxy in self-assembled BaTiO 3- CoFe 2O 4 nanostructures."Applied Physics Letters 85 (2004) 2035-2037. DOI

2003

Wang, J., J.B. Neaton, H. Zheng, V. Nagarajan, S.B. Ogale, B. Liu, D. Viehland, V. Vaithyanathan, D.G. Schlom, U.V. Waghmare, N.A. Spaldin, K.M. Rabe, M. Wuttig, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Epitaxial BiFeO3 multiferroic thin film heterostructures."Science 299 (2003) 1719-1722. DOI

2002

Wang, Y., C. Ganpule, B.T. Liu, H. Li, K. Mori, B. Hill, M. Wuttig, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, J. Finder, Z. Yu, R. Droopad, and K. Eisenbeiser."Epitaxial ferroelectric Pb(Zr,Ti)O3 thin films on Si using SrTiO3 template layers."Applied Physics Letters 80 (2002) 97-99. DOI

Craciunescu, C., Y. Kishi, L. Saraf, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and M. Wuttig."Ferromagnetic NiMnGa and CoNiGa shape memory alloy films."Materials Research Society Symposium - Proceedings 687 (2002) 89-94.

1997

Gruverman, A., H. Tokumoto, A.S. Prakash, S. Aggarwal, B. Yang, M. Wuttig, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, O. Auciello, and T. Venkatesan."Nanoscale imaging of domain dynamics and retention in ferroelectric thin films."Applied Physics Letters 71 (1997) 3492-3494. DOI