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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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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)

2008

Zhang, J.X., Y.L. Li, S. Choudhury, L.Q. Chen, Y.H. Chu, F. Zavaliche, M.P. Cruz, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and Q.X. Jia."Computer simulation of ferroelectric domain structures in epitaxial BiFe O3 thin films."Journal of Applied Physics 103 (2008). DOI

Chu, Y.H., Q. Zhan, C.-H. Yang, M.P. Cruz, L.W. Martin, T. Zhao, P. Yu, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, P.T. Joseph, I.N. Lin, W. Tian, and D.G. Schlom."Low voltage performance of epitaxial BiFeO3 films on Si substrates through lanthanum substitution."Applied Physics Letters 92 (2008). DOI

2007

Yang, S.Y., Q. Zhan, P.L. Yang, M.P. Cruz, Y.H. Chu, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Y.R. Wu, J. Singh, W. Tian, and D.G. Schlom."+Capacitance-voltage characteristics of BiFe O3 SrTi O3 GaN heteroepitaxial structures."Applied Physics Letters 91 (2007). DOI

Chu, Y.-H., M.P. Cruz, C.-H. Yang, L.W. Martin, P.-L. Yang, J.-X. Zhang, K. Lee, P. Yu, L.-Q. Chen, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Domain control in multiferroic BiFeO3 through substrate vicinality."Advanced Materials 19 (2007) 2662-2666. DOI

Zavaliche, F., T. Zhao, H. Zheng, F. Straub, M.P. Cruz, P.-L. Yang, D. Hao, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Electrically assisted magnetic recording in multiferroic nanostructures."Nano Letters 7 (2007) 1586-1590. DOI

Chu, Y.H., L.W. Martin, Q. Zhan, P.L. Yang, M.P. Cruz, K. Lee, M. Barry, S.Y. Yang, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Fridkin V., Ducharme S., Kleemann W., and Ishibashi Y.."Epitaxial multiferroic BiFeO3 thin films: Progress and future directions."Ferroelectrics 354 (2007) 167-177. DOI

Simões, A.Z., M.P. Cruz, A. Ries, E. Longo, J.A. Varela, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Ferroelectric and piezoelectric properties of bismuth titanate thin films grown on different bottom electrodes by soft chemical solution and microwave annealing."Materials Research Bulletin 42 (2007) 975-981. DOI

Chu, Y.H., T. Zhao, M.P. Cruz, Q. Zhan, P.L. Yang, L.W. Martin, M. Huijben, C.H. Yang, F. Zavaliche, H. Zheng, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Ferroelectric size effects in multiferroic BiFeO3 thin films."Applied Physics Letters 90 (2007). DOI

Ramesh, Ramamoorthy, F. Zavaliche, Y.H. Chu, L.W. Martin, S.Y. Yang, M.P. Cruz, M. Barry, K. Lee, P. Yang, and Q. Zhan."Magnetoelectric complex-oxide heterostructures."Philosophical Magazine Letters 87 (2007) 155-164. DOI

Zhao, T., A. Scholl, F. Zavaliche, H. Zheng, M. Barry, A. Doran, K. Lee, M.P. Cruz, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Nanoscale x-ray magnetic circular dichroism probing of electric-field- induced magnetic switching in multiferroic nanostructures."Applied Physics Letters 90 (2007). DOI

Shafer, P., F. Zavaliche, Y.-H. Chu, P.-L. Yang, M.P. Cruz, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Planar electrode piezoelectric force microscopy to study electric polarization switching in BiFe O3."Applied Physics Letters 90 (2007). DOI

Cruz, M.P., Y.H. Chu, J.X. Zhang, P.L. Yang, F. Zavaliche, Q. He, P. Shafer, L.Q. Chen, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Strain control of domain-wall stability in epitaxial BiFeO3 (110) films."Physical Review Letters 99 (2007). DOI

2006

Zheng, H., Q. Zhan, F. Zavaliche, M. Sherburne, F. Straub, M.P. Cruz, L.-Q. Chen, U. Dahmen, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Controlling self-assembled perovskite-spinel nanostructures."Nano Letters 6 (2006) 1401-1407. DOI

Zhao, T., A. Scholl, F. Zavaliche, K. Lee, M. Barry, A. Doran, M.P. Cruz, Y.H. Chu, C. Ederer, N.A. Spaldin, R.R. Das, D.M. Kim, S.H. Baek, C.B. Eom, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Electrical control of antiferromagnetic domains in multiferroic BiFeO 3 films at room temperature."Nature Materials 5 (2006) 823-829. DOI

Zavaliche, F., S.Y. Yang, T. Zhao, Y.H. Chu, M.P. Cruz, C.B. Eom, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Multiferroic BiFeO3 films: Domain structure and polarization dynamics."Phase Transitions 79 (2006) 991-1017. DOI

Chu, Y.-H., Q. Zhan, L.W. Martin, M.P. Cruz, P.-L. Yang, G.W. Pabst, F. Zavaliche, S.-Y. Yang, J.-X. Zhang, L.-Q. Chen, D.G. Schlom, I.-N. Lin, T.-B. Wu, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Nanoscale domain control in multiferroic BiFeO3 thin films."Advanced Materials 18 (2006) 2307-2311. DOI

2005

Yang, S.Y., F. Zavaliche, L. Mohaddes-Ardabili, V. Vaithyanathan, D.G. Schlom, Y.J. Lee, Y.H. Chu, M.P. Cruz, Q. Zhan, T. Zhao, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Metalorganic chemical vapor deposition of lead-free ferroelectric BiFeO 3 films for memory applications."Applied Physics Letters 87 (2005). DOI

Zavaliche, F., P. Shafer, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, M.P. Cruz, R.R. Das, D.M. Kim, and C.B. Eom."Polarization switching in epitaxial BiFeO 3 films."Applied Physics Letters 87 (2005) 1-3. DOI