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

Buildings

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Energy Storage

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Transportation

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

1995

Finlayson, Elizabeth U, Dariush K Arasteh, Michael D Rubin, John Sadlier, Robert Sullivan, Charlie Huizenga, Dragan C Curcija, and Mark Beall."Advances in Thermal and Optical Simulations of Fenestration Systems: The Development of WINDOW 5."Thermal Performance of the Exterior Envelopes of Buildings VI Conference (1995).

Sullivan, Robert, Michael D Rubin, and Stephen E Selkowitz."Reducing Residential Cooling Requirements Through the Use of Electrochromic Windows."Thermal Performance of the Exterior Envelopes of Buildings VI Conference Proceedings (1995).

Arasteh, Dariush K, Elizabeth U Finlayson, Michael D Rubin, and John Sadlier."Recent Technical Improvements to the WINDOW Computer Program."Window Innovations 95 (1995).

Anders, Simone, André Anders, Michael D Rubin, Zhien Wang, Sebastien Raoux, Fanping Kong, and Ian G Brown."Formation of Metal Oxides by Cathodic Arc Deposition."International Conference on Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films, April 24-28, 1995 (1995).

Fu, T.C, Nathan Newman, Erin C Jones, James S Chan, Xiaohong Liu, Michael D Rubin, Nathan W Cheung, and Eicke R Weber."The Influence of Nitrogen Ion Energy on the Quality of GaN Films Grown with Molecular Beam Epitaxy."Journal of Electronic Materials 24.4 (1995) 249-255. DOI

von Rottkay, Klaus, Michael D Rubin, and Nilgün Özer."Optical Indices of the Tin-doped Indium Oxide and Tungsten Oxide Electrochromic Coatings."Material Research Society Symposium 403 (1995) 551-556.

1994

Selkowitz, Stephen E, Michael D Rubin, Eleanor S Lee, and Robert Sullivan."A Review of Electrochromic Window Performance Factors."SPIE 13. International Symposium on Optical Materials Technology for Energy Efficiency and Solar Energy Conversion (1994).

Sullivan, Robert, Eleanor S Lee, Konstantinos M Papamichael, Michael D Rubin, and Stephen E Selkowitz."Effect of Switching Control Strategies on the Energy Performance of Electrochromic Windows."SPIE International Symposium on Optical Materials Technology for Energy Efficiency and Solar Energy Conversion XIII, April 18-22, 1994 (1994).

Papamichael, Konstantinos M, Liliana O Beltran, Reto A Furler, Eleanor S Lee, Stephen E Selkowitz, and Michael D Rubin."Simulating the Energy Performance of Holographic Glazings."13th SPIE International Symposium on Optical Materials Technology for Energy Efficiency and Solar Energy Conversion (1994).

Newman, Nathan, T.C Fu, Z Liu, Zuzanna Liliental-Weber, Michael D Rubin, James S Chan, Erin C Jones, Jennifer T Ross, Ian M Tidswell, Kin Man Yu, Nathan W Cheung, and Eicke R Weber."Fundamental Materials-Issues Involved in the Growth of GaN by Molecular Beam Epitaxy." (1994).

Lee, Eleanor S, Deborah Hopkins, Michael D Rubin, Dariush K Arasteh, and Stephen E Selkowitz."Spectrally Selective Glazings for Residential Retrofits in Cooling-Dominated Climates."ASHRAE Transactions 100.1 (1994).

1993

Chan, James S, T.C Fu, Nathan W Cheung, Jennifer T Ross, Nathan Newman, and Michael D Rubin."Comparison of AIN Films Grown by RF at Magnetron Sputtering and Ion-Assisted Molecular Beam Epitaxy."Materials Research Society 300 (1993).

Papamichael, Konstantinos M, Liliana O Beltran, Reto A Furler, Eleanor S Lee, Stephen E Selkowitz, and Michael D Rubin."The Energy Performance of Prototype Holographic Glazings." (1993).

Ross, Jennifer T, Michael D Rubin, X Yao, Nathan Newman, and Amy Moll."Ion Implantation of Mg and C into GaN Films Grown by Ion-Assisted MBE." (1993).

Rubin, Michael D, Nathan Newman, James S Chan, T.C Fu, and Jennifer T Ross."P-Type Gallium Nitride by Reactive Ion-Beam Molecular Beam Epitaxy with Ion Implantation, Diffusion or Coevaporation of Mg."Applied Physics Letters 64.1 (1993) 64-66. DOI

Finlayson, Elizabeth U, Dariush K Arasteh, Charlie Huizenga, Michael D Rubin, and M. M Susan Reilly."Window 4.0: Documentation of Calculation Procedures." (1993).

1992

Berdahl, Paul H, Xianglei Mao, Ronald P Reade, Michael D Rubin, Richard E Russo, and E Yin."Angular Magnetoresistance Provides Texture Information on High-Tc Conductors."Physica C 195 (1992) 93-102.

Ross, Jennifer T, Michael D Rubin, and Ture K Gustafson."Crystalline Growth of Wurtzite GAN on (111) GaAs."Materials Research Society Symposium 242 (1992) 457. DOI

Rubin, Michael D."Ion Assisted Sputtering of Tungsten Oxide Solar-Control Films."Journal of Vacuum Science Technology A 10 (1992) 1905-1907.

Rubin, Michael D, Dariush K Arasteh, Eleanor S Lee, and Deborah Hopkins."Spectrally Selective Glazings for Residential Retrofits." (1992).

Yin, E, Michael D Rubin, and M.A Dixon."Sputtered YBCO Films on Metal Substrates."Journal of Materials Research 7.7 (1992) 1636-1640. DOI

Wruck, David A, and Michael D Rubin."Structure and Electronic Properties of Electrochromic NiO Films."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 140.4 (1992) 1097-1104. DOI

Newman, Nathan, Jennifer T Ross, and Michael D Rubin."Thermodynamic and Kinetic Processes Involved in the Growth of Epitaxial GaN Thin Films."Applied Physics Letters 62 (1992) 1242.

1991

Ross, Jennifer T, Michael D Rubin, and Ture K Gustafson."Single Crystal Wurtzite GaN on (111) GaAs with AIN Buffer Layers Grown by Reactive Magnetron Sputter Deposition."Journal of Materials Research 8.10 (1991) 2613-2616.

Yin, E, Michael D Rubin, and C. C Bradford Hopper."On-Axis Shielded Sputtering of Y-Ba-Cu-O."Materials Letters 13.2-3 (1991) 89-92. DOI