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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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Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

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2005

Li, J, I Levin, J Slutsker, V Provenzano, P.K Schenck, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, J Ouyang, and A.L Roytburd."Self-assembled multiferroic nanostructures in the Co Fe 2 O 4 -PbTi O 3 system."Applied Physics Letters 87 (2005). DOI

Liu, X, E.F McCandlish, L.E McCandlish, K Mikulka-Bolen, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, F Cosandey, G .A Jr, and R.E Riman."Single-crystal-like materials by the self-assembly of cube-shaped lead zirconate titanate (PZT) microcrystals."Langmuir 21 (2005) 3207-3212. DOI

Mohaddes-Ardabili, L, H Zheng, Q Zhan, S.Y Yang, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, L Salamanca-Riba, M Wuttig, S.B Ogale, and X Pan."Size and shape evolution of embedded single-crystal α -Fe nanowires."Applied Physics Letters 87 (2005) 1-3. DOI

Ouyang, J, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and A.L Roytburd."Theoretical predictions for the intrinsic converse longitudinal piezoelectric constants of lead zirconate titanate epitaxial films."Advanced Engineering Materials 7 (2005) 229-232. DOI

2004

Alpay, S.P, I.B Misirlioglu, V Nagarajan, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Can interface dislocations degrade ferroelectric properties?."Applied Physics Letters 85 (2004) 2044-2046. DOI

Shinde, S.R, S.B Ogale, J.S Higgins, H Zheng, A.J Millis, V.N Kulkarni, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, R.L Greene, and T Venkatesan."Co-occurrence of superparamagnetism and anomalous hall effect in highly reduced cobalt-doped rutile TiO2-δ films."Physical Review Letters 92 (2004) 166601-1-166601-4. DOI

Zhao, T, S.B Ogale, S.R Shinde, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, R Droopad, J Yu, K Eisenbeiser, and J Misewich."Colossal magnetoresistive manganite-based ferroelectric field-effect transistor on Si."Applied Physics Letters 84 (2004) 750-752. DOI

Li, J, J Wang, M Wuttig, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, N Wang, B Ruette, A.P Pyatakov, A.K Zvezdin, and D Viehland."Dramatically enhanced polarization in (001), (101), and (111) BiFeO 3 thin films due to epitiaxial-induced transitions."Applied Physics Letters 84 (2004) 5261-5263. DOI

Wang, J, H Zheng, Z Ma, S Prasertchoung, M Wuttig, R Droopad, J Yu, K Eisenbeiser, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Epitaxial BiFeO 3 thin films on Si."Applied Physics Letters 85 (2004) 2574-2576. DOI

Bai, F, H Zheng, H Cao, L.E Cross, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, J Li, and D Viehland."Epitaxially induced high temperature (>900 K) cubic-tetragonal structural phase transition in BaTiO 3 thin films."Applied Physics Letters 85 (2004) 4109-4111. DOI

Tselev, A, C.M Brooks, S.M Anlage, H Zheng, L Salamanca-Riba, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and M.A Subramanian."Evidence for power-law frequency dependence of intrinsic dielectric response in the CaCu3Ti4O12."Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 70 (2004) 144101-1-144101-8. DOI

Chang, K.-S, M.A Aronova, C.-L Lin, M Murakami, M.-H Yu, J R Hattrick-Simpers, O.O Famodu, S.Y Lee, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, M Wuttig, I Takeuchi, C Gao, and L.A Bendersky."Exploration of artificial multiferroic thin-film heterostructures using composition spreads."Applied Physics Letters 84 (2004) 3091-3093. DOI

Li, J.-H, L Chen, V Nagarajan, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and A.L Roytburd."Finite element modeling of piezoresponse in nanostructured ferroelectric films."Applied Physics Letters 84 (2004) 2626-2628. DOI

Chen, L, J Ouyang, C.S Ganpule, V Nagarajan, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and A.L Roytburd."Formation of 90° elastic domains during local 180° switching in epitaxial ferroelectric thin films."Applied Physics Letters 84 (2004) 254-256. DOI

Shinde, S.R, S.B Ogale, J Higgins, R.J Choudhary, V.N Kulkarni, T Venkatesan, H Zheng, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, A.V Pogrebnyakov, S.Y Xu, Q Li, X.X Xi, J.M Redwing, and D Kanjilal."Modification of critical current density of MgB 2 films irradiated with 200 MeV Ag ions."Applied Physics Letters 84 (2004) 2352-2354. DOI

Zheng, H, J Wang, S.E Lofland, Z Ma, L Mohaddes-Ardabili, T Zhao, L Salamanca-Riba, S.R Shinde, S.B Ogale, F Bai, D Viehland, Y Jia, D.G Schlom, M Wuttig, A Roytburd, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Multiferroic BaTiO3-CoFe2O4 Nanostructures."Science 303 (2004) 661-663. DOI

Ouyang, J, S.Y Yang, L Chen, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and A.L Roytburd."Orientation dependence of the converse piezoelectric constants for epitaxial single domain ferroelectric films."Applied Physics Letters 85 (2004) 278-280. DOI

Prasertchoung, S, V Nagarajan, Z Ma, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, J.S Cross, and M Tsukada."Polarization switching of submicron ferroelectric capacitors using an atomic force microscope."Applied Physics Letters 84 (2004) 3130-3132. DOI

Mohaddes-Ardabili, L, H Zheng, S.B Ogale, B Hannoyer, W Tian, J Wang, S.E Lofland, S.R Shinde, T Zhao, Y Jia, L Salamanca-Riba, D.G Schlom, M Wuttig, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Self-assembled single-crystal ferromagnetic iron nanowires formed by decomposition."Nature Materials 3 (2004) 533-538. DOI

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

Zheng, H, L Salamanca-Riba, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and H Li."Suppression of antiphase domain boundary formation in Ba 0.5Sr 0.5TiO 3 films grown on vicinal MgO substrates."Applied Physics Letters 85 (2004) 2905-2907. DOI

Misirlioglu, I.B, A.L Vasiliev, M Aindow, S.P Alpay, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Threading dislocation generation in epitaxial (Ba,Sr)TiO3 films grown on (001) LaAlO3 by pulsed laser deposition."Applied Physics Letters 84 (2004) 1742-1744. DOI

Zheng, H, J Wang, L Mohaddes-Ardabili, M Wuttig, L Salamanca-Riba, D.G Schlom, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Three-dimensional heteroepitaxy in self-assembled BaTiO 3- CoFe 2O 4 nanostructures."Applied Physics Letters 85 (2004) 2035-2037. DOI

Li, J, B Nagaraj, H Liang, W Cao, C.H Lee, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Ultrafast polarization switching in thin-film ferroelectrics."Applied Physics Letters 84 (2004) 1174-1176. DOI

2003

Misirlioglu, I.B, A.L Vasiliev, M Aindow, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, S.P Alpay, Hoffmann-Eifert S, Funakubo H, Joshi V V, Kingon A.I, and Koutsaroff I.P."A transmission electron microscopy study of dislocation substructures in PLD-grown epitaxial films of (Ba,Sr)TiO 3 on (001) LaAlO 3."Materials Research Society Symposium - Proceedings 784 (2003) 49-54.