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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.

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)

2000

Aggarwal, S, B Nagaraj, I.G Jenkins, H Li, R.P Sharma, L Salamanca-Riba, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, A.M Dhote, A.R Krauss, and O Auciello."Correlation between oxidation resistance and crystallinity of Ti-Al as a barrier layer for high-density memories."Acta Materialia 48 (2000) 3387-3394. DOI

1999

Shreekala, R, M Rajeswari, R.C Srivastava, K Ghosh, A Goyal, V.V Srinivasu, S.E Lofland, S.M Bhagat, M Downes, R.P Sharma, S.B Ogale, R.L Greene, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, T Venkatesan, R.A Rao, and C.B Eom."Ferromagnetism at room temperature in La0.8Ca0.2MnO3 thin films."Applied Physics Letters 74 (1999) 1886-1888. DOI

Orozco, A, S.B Ogale, Y.H Li, P Fournier, E Li, H Asano, V Smolyaninova, R.L Greene, R.P Sharma, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and T Venkatesan."Oscillatory exchange coupling and giant positive magnetoresistance in TiN/Fe3O4 superlattices."Physical Review Letters 83 (1999) 1680-1683. DOI

Madhukar, S, S Aggarwal, A.M Dhote, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, S.B Samavedam, S Choopun, and R.P Sharma."Pulsed laser-ablation deposition of thin films of molybdenum suicide and its properties as a conducting barrier for ferroelectric random-access memory technology."Journal of Materials Research 14 (1999) 940-947.

Venkatesan, T, R.P Sharma, Y.G Zhao, Z.Y Chen, C.H Lee, W.L Cao, J.J Li, H.D Drew, S.B Ogale, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, M Rajeswari, T Wu, I Jin, S Choopun, M Johnson, W.K Chu, and G Baskaran."Superconducting cuprates and magnetoresistive manganites: Similarities and contrasts."Materials Science and Engineering B: Solid-State Materials for Advanced Technology 63 (1999) 36-43. DOI

1998

Rajeswari, M, R Shreekala, A Goyal, S.E Lofland, S.M Bhagat, K Ghosh, R.P Sharma, R.L Greene, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, T Venkatesan, and T Boettcher."Correlation between magnetic homogeneity, oxygen content, and electrical and magnetic properties of perovskite manganite thin films."Applied Physics Letters 73 (1998) 2672-2674. DOI

Shinde, S.R, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, S.E Lofland, S.M Bhagat, S.B Ogale, R.P Sharma, and T Venkatesan."Effect of lattice mismatch strains on the structural and magnetic properties of barium ferrite films."Applied Physics Letters 72 (1998) 3443-3445. DOI

Talyansky, V, R.D Vispute, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, R.P Sharma, T Venkatesan, Y.X Li, L.G Salamanca-Riba, M.C Wood, R.T Lareau, K.A Jones, and A.A Iliadis."Fabrication and characterization of epitaxial AlN/TiN bilayers on sapphire."Thin Solid Films 323 (1998) 37-41. DOI

Venkatesan, T, R.P Sharma, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Y.G Zhao, Insik Jin, S.B Ogale, M Rajeswari, H Zhang, J.R Liu, W.K Chu, Boyed Veal, A Paulikas, H Zheng, C.H Lee, W.L Cao, and Bozovic D."Femto-second photoimpedance response and dynamic structural distortions in YBCO samples."Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering 3481 (1998) 44-59.

Ogale, S.B, K Ghosh, J.Y Gu, R Shreekala, S.R Shinde, M Downes, M Rajeswari, R.P Sharma, R.L Greene, T Venkatesan, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, R Bathe, S.I Patil, R Ravikumar, S.K Arora, and G.K Mehta."Influence of 90 MeV oxygen ion induced disorder on the magnetotransport in epitaxial La0.7Ca0.3MnO3 thin films."Journal of Applied Physics 84 (1998) 6255-6261. DOI

Dong, Z.W, S.P Pai, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, T Venkatesan, M Johnson, Z.Y Chen, A Cavanaugh, Y.G Zhao, X.L Jiang, R.P Sharma, S Ogale, and R.L Greene."Novel high-Tc transistors with manganite oxides."Journal of Applied Physics 83 (1998) 6780-6782. DOI

Aggarwal, S, S.R Perusse, S Madhukar, T.K Song, C.L Canedy, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, S Choopun, R.P Sharma, T Venkatesan, and S.M Green."Rapid thermal annealing of oxide electrodes for nonvolatile ferroelectric memory structures."Journal of Electroceramics 2 (1998) 171-179. DOI

1997

Gu, J.Y, C Kwon, M.C Robson, Z Trajanovic, K Ghosh, R.P Sharma, R Shreekala, M Rajeswari, T Venkatesan, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and T.W Noh."Growth and properties of c-axis textured La0.7Sr0.3MnO3-δ films on SiO2/Si substrates with a Bi4Ti3O12 template layer."Applied Physics Letters 70 (1997) 1763-1765. DOI

Dong, Z.W, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, T Venkatesan, M Johnson, Z.Y Chen, S.P Pai, V Talyansky, R.P Sharma, R Shreekala, C.J Lobb, and R.L Greene."Spin-polarized quasiparticle injection devices using Au/YBa2Cu3O7/LaAIO3/Nd 0.7Sr0.3MnO3 heterostructures."Applied Physics Letters 71 (1997) 1718-1720. DOI

Dong, Z.W, Z Trajanovic, T Boettcher, I Takeuchi, V Talyansky, C.-H Chen, R.P Sharma, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and T Venkatesan."Studies of ferroelectric field effects in Pt/Pb(Zr0. 5Ti0. 5)O3/YBa2Cu3O7 heterostructures."IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity 7 (1997) 3516-3519.

1996

Robson, M.C, C Kwon, K.-C Kim, R.P Sharma, T Venkatesan, S.E Lofland, S.M Bhagat, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, M Dominguez, and S.D Tyagi."Characterization of epitaxial La0.7Ba0.3MnO3 structures using ferromagnetic resonance."Journal of Applied Physics 80 (1996) 2334-2338. DOI

Chen, C.-H, V Talyansky, C Kwon, M Rajeswari, R.P Sharma, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, T Venkatesan, J Melngailis, Z Zhang, and W.K Chu."Ion implantation induced enhancement of magnetoresistance in La0.67Ca0.33MnO3."Applied Physics Letters 69 (1996) 3089-3091. DOI

1995

Lofland, S.E, S.M Bhagat, C Kwon, M.C Robson, R.P Sharma, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and T Venkatesan."Standing spin wave resonances in manganite films."Physics Letters A 209 (1995) 246-248. DOI