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)

2009

Chowdhury, , Ihtesham, Ravi S. Prasher, Kelly Lofgreen, Sridhar Narasimhan, Ravi Mahajan, David Koester, and Rama Venkatasubramanian."Site-Specific and On-Demand High Heat-Flux Cooling Using Superlattice Based Thin-Film Thermoelectrics."ASME 2009 InterPACK Conference collocated with the ASME 2009 Summer Heat Transfer Conference and the ASME 2009 3rd International Conference on Energy Sustainability (2009) 521–526. DOI

Chowdhury, Ihtesham, Ravi S. Prasher, Kelly Lofgreen, Gregory M . Chrysler, Sridhar Narasimhan, Ravi Mahajan, David Koester, Randall Alley, and Rama Venkatasubramanian."On-chip cooling by superlattice-based thin-film thermoelectrics."Nat. Nanotechnol. 4 (2009) 235–238. DOI

2006

Kim, , Sarah E, R Scott List, James G Maveety, Alan M. Myers, Quat T Vu, Ravi S. Prasher, Ravi Mahajan, and Gilroy Vandentop."Using external radiators with electroosmotic pumps for cooling integrated circuits." (2006).

2005

Prasher, Ravi S., and Ravi Mahajan."Two-phase cooling utilizing microchannel heat exchangers and channeled heat sink." (2005).

Torresola, Javier, Chia-Pin Chiu, Gregory M . Chrysler, Dean Grannes, Ravi Mahajan, Ravi S. Prasher, and Abhay A. Watwe."Density factor approach to representing impact of die power maps on thermal management."IEEE Trans. Adv. Packag. 28.4 (2005) 659–664. DOI

Prasher, Ravi S., and Ravi Mahajan."Micro-channel heat exchangers and spreaders." (2005).

Prasher, Ravi S., and Ravi Mahajan."Channeled heat sink and chassis with integrated heat rejecter for two-phase cooling." (2005).

Sauciuc, Ioan, Ravi S. Prasher, Je-Young Chang, Ravi Mahajan, and C. Migliaccio."Bearing life: A future package cooling challenge." 14 (2005).

Sauciuc, Ioan, Ravi S. Prasher, Je-Young Chang, Hakan Erturk, Gregory M . Chrysler, Chia-Pin Chiu, and Ravi Mahajan."Thermal Performance and Key Challenges for Future CPU Cooling Technologies."ASME 2005 Pacific Rim Technical Conference and Exhibition on Integration and Packaging of MEMS, NEMS, and Electronic Systems collocated with the ASME 2005 Heat Transfer Summer Conference (2005) 353–364. DOI

2004

Mahajan, Ravi, Chia-Pin Chiu, and Ravi S. Prasher."Thermal interface materials: a brief review of design characteristics and materials."Electronics Cooling (2004).