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)

2007

Jia, C.-L, V Nagarajan, J.-Q He, L Houben, T Zhao, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, K Urban, and R Waser."Unit-cell scale mapping of ferroelectricity and tetragonality in epitaxial ultrathin ferroelectric films."Nature Materials 6 (2007) 64-69. DOI

2006

Nagarajan, V, J Junquera, J.Q He, C.L Jia, R Waser, K Lee, Y.K Kim, Sunhee Baik, T Zhao, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Ph Ghosez, and K.M Rabe."Scaling of structure and electrical properties in ultrathin epitaxial ferroelectric heterostructures."Journal of Applied Physics 100 (2006). DOI

Petraru, A, V Nagarajan, H Kohlstedt, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, D.G Schlom, and R Waser."Simultaneous measurement of the piezoelectric and dielectric response of nanoscale ferroelectric capacitors by an atomic force microscopy based approach."Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing 84 (2006) 67-71. DOI

2005

Nagarajan, V, C.L Jia, H Kohlstedt, R Waser, I.B Misirlioglu, S.P Alpay, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Misfit dislocations in nanoscale ferroelectric heterostructures."Applied Physics Letters 86 (2005) 1-3. DOI

Nagarajan, V, S Aggarwal, A Gruverman, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and R Waser."Nanoscale polarization relaxation in a polycrystalline ferroelectric thin film: Role of local environments."Applied Physics Letters 86 (2005) 1-3. DOI

2004

Nagarajan, V, S Prasertchoung, T Zhao, H Zheng, J Ouyang, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, W Tian, X.Q Pan, D.M Kim, C.B Eom, H Kohlstedt, and R Waser."Size effects in ultrathin epitaxial ferroelectric heterostructures."Applied Physics Letters 84 (2004) 5225-5227. DOI

2002

Roelofs, A, N.A Pertsev, R Waser, F Schlaphof, L.M Eng, C Ganpule, V Nagarajan, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Depolarizing-field-mediated 180° switching in ferroelectric thin films with 90° domains."Applied Physics Letters 80 (2002) 1424-1426. DOI

Ganpule, C.S, V Nagarajan, B.K Hill, A.L Roytburd, E.D Williams, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, S.P Alpay, A Roelofs, R Waser, and L.M Eng."Imaging three-dimensional polarization in epitaxial polydomain ferroelectric thin films."Journal of Applied Physics 91 (2002) 1477-1481. DOI

2001

Tiedke, S, T Schmitz, K Prume, A Roelofs, T Schneller, U Kall, R Waser, C.S Ganpule, V Nagarajan, A Stanishevsky, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Direct hysteresis measurements of single nanosized ferroelectric capacitors contacted with an atomic force microscope."Applied Physics Letters 79 (2001) 3678-3680. DOI

Schmitz, T, K Prume, S Tiedke, A Roelofs, T Schneller, U Kall, M Grossmann, R Waser, C Ganpule, A Stanishefsky, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Electrical measurements on capacitor sizes in the submicron regime for the characterization of real memory cell capacitors."Integrated Ferroelectrics 37 (2001) 163-172. DOI