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)

2018

Campanini, M., R. Erni, C.-H. Yang, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and M.D. Rossell."Periodic Giant Polarization Gradients in Doped BiFeO3 Thin Films."Nano Letters 18 (2018) 717-724. DOI

2013

Lubk, A., M.D. Rossell, J. Seidel, Y.H. Chu, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, M.J. Hÿtch, and E. Snoeck."Electromechanical coupling among edge dislocations, domain walls, and nanodomains in BiFeO3 revealed by unit-cell-wise strain and polarization maps."Nano Letters 13 (2013) 1410-1415. DOI

2012

Rossell, M.D., R. Erni, M.P. Prange, J.-C. Idrobo, W. Luo, R.J. Zeches, S.T. Pantelides, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Atomic structure of highly strained BiFeO 3 thin films."Physical Review Letters 108 (2012). DOI

Lubk, A., M.D. Rossell, J. Seidel, Q. He, S.Y. Yang, Y.H. Chu, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, M.J. Hÿtch, and E. Snoeck."Evidence of sharp and diffuse domain walls in BiFeO 3 by means of unit-cell-wise strain and polarization maps obtained with high resolution scanning transmission electron microscopy."Physical Review Letters 109 (2012). DOI

Yu, P., W. Luo, D. Yi, J.X. Zhang, M.D. Rossell, C.-H. Yang, L. You, G. Singh-Bhalla, S.Y. Yang, Q. He, Q.M. Ramasse, R. Erni, L.W. Martin, Y.H. Chu, S.T. Pantelides, S.J. Pennycook, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Interface control of bulk ferroelectric polarization."Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 109 (2012) 9710-9715. DOI

2011

Zhang, J.X., Q. He, M. Trassin, W. Luo, D. Yi, M.D. Rossell, P. Yu, L. You, C.H. Wang, C.Y. Kuo, J.T. Heron, Z. Hu, R.J. Zeches, H.J. Lin, A. Tanaka, C.T. Chen, L.H. Tjeng, Y.-H. Chu, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Microscopic origin of the giant ferroelectric polarization in tetragonal-like BiFeO3."Physical Review Letters 107 (2011). DOI

2010

Yang, S.Y., J. Seidel, S.J. Byrnes, P. Shafer, C.-H. Yang, M.D. Rossell, P. Yu, Y.-H. Chu, J.F. Scott, J.W. Ager, L.W. Martin, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Above-bandgap voltages from ferroelectric photovoltaic devices."Nature Nanotechnology 5 (2010) 143-147. DOI

Lee, J.-S., D.A. Arena, P. Yu, C.S. Nelson, R. Fan, C.J. Kinane, S. Langridge, M.D. Rossell, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and C.-C. Kao."Hidden magnetic configuration in epitaxial La1-xSr xMnO3 films."Physical Review Letters 105 (2010). DOI

Yu, P., J.-S. Lee, S. Okamoto, M.D. Rossell, M. Huijben, C.-H. Yang, Q. He, J.X. Zhang, S.Y. Yang, M.J. Lee, Q.M. Ramasse, R. Erni, Y.-H. Chu, D.A. Arena, C.-C. Kao, L.W. Martin, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Interface ferromagnetism and orbital reconstruction in BiFeO 3-La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 heterostructures."Physical Review Letters 105 (2010). DOI

Wu, S.M., S.A. Cybart, P. Yu, M.D. Rossell, J.X. Zhang, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and R.C. Dynes."Reversible electric control of exchange bias in a multiferroic field-effect device."Nature Materials 9 (2010) 756-761. DOI

2009

Zeches, R.J., M.D. Rossell, J.X. Zhang, A.J. Hatt, Q. He, C.-H. Yang, A. Kumar, C.H. Wang, A. Melville, C. Adamo, G. Sheng, Y.-H. Chu, J.F. Ihlefeld, R. Erni, C. Ederer, V. Gopalan, L.Q. Chen, D.G. Schldin, N.A. Spaldin, L.W. Martin, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."A strain-driven morphotropic phase boundary in bifeO3."Science 326 (2009) 977-980. DOI