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)

2020

Cheema, S.S., D. Kwon, N. Shanker, dos Reis, S.-L. Hsu, J. Xiao, H. Zhang, R. Wagner, A. Datar, M.R. McCarter, C.R. Serrao, A.K. Yadav, G. Karbasian, C.-H. Hsu, A.J. Tan, L.-C. Wang, V. Thakare, X. Zhang, A. Mehta, E. Karapetrova, R.V. Chopdekar, P. Shafer, E. Arenholz, C. Hu, R. Proksch, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, J. Ciston, and S. Salahuddin."Enhanced ferroelectricity in ultrathin films grown directly on silicon."Nature 580 (2020) 478-482. DOI

2019

Hsu, S.-L., M.R. McCarter, C. Dai, Z. Hong, L.-Q. Chen, C.T. Nelson, L.W. Martin, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Emergence of the Vortex State in Confined Ferroelectric Heterostructures."Advanced Materials 31 (2019). DOI

Das, S., Y.L. Tang, Z. Hong, M.A.P. Gonçalves, M.R. McCarter, C. Klewe, K.X. Nguyen, F. Gómez-Ortiz, P. Shafer, E. Arenholz, V.A. Stoica, S.-L. Hsu, B. Wang, C. Ophus, J.F. Liu, C.T. Nelson, S. Saremi, B. Prasad, A.B. Mei, D.G. Schlom, J. Íñiguez, P. García-Fernández, D.A. Muller, L.Q. Chen, J. Junquera, L.W. Martin, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Observation of room-temperature polar skyrmions."Nature 568 (2019) 368-372. DOI

Stoica, V.A., N. Laanait, C. Dai, Z. Hong, Y. Yuan, Z. Zhang, S. Lei, M.R. McCarter, A. Yadav, A.R. Damodaran, S. Das, G.A. Stone, J. Karapetrova, D.A. Walko, X. Zhang, L.W. Martin, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, L.-Q. Chen, H. Wen, V. Gopalan, and J.W. Freeland."Optical creation of a supercrystal with three-dimensional nanoscale periodicity."Nature Materials 18 (2019) 377-383. DOI

2018

Das, S., A. Ghosh, M.R. McCarter, S.-L. Hsu, Y.-L. Tang, A.R. Damodaran, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and L.W. Martin."Perspective: Emergent topologies in oxide superlattices."APL Materials 6 (2018). DOI

2017

Damodaran, A.R., J.D. Clarkson, Z. Hong, H. B. Liu, A.K. Yadav, C.T. Nelson, S.-L. Hsu, M.R. McCarter, K.-D. Park, V. Kravtsov, A. Farhan, Y. Dong, Z. Cai, H. Zhou, P. Aguado-Puente, P. García-Fernández, J. Íñiguez, J. Junquera, A. Scholl, M.B. Raschke, L.-Q. Chen, D.D. Fong, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and L.W. Martin."Phase coexistence and electric-field control of toroidal order in oxide superlattices."Nature Materials 16 (2017) 1003-1009. DOI