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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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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)

2013

Choi, Inhee, George C.Y Chan, Xianglei Mao, Dale L Perry, and Richard E Russo."Line Selection and Parameter Optimization for Trace Analysis of Uranium in Glass Matrices by Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS)."Applied Spectroscopy 67.11 (2013) 1275-1284. DOI

Chan, George C.Y, Xianglei Mao, Inhee Choi, Arnab Sarkar, Oanh P Lam, David K Shuh, and Richard E Russo."Multiple emission line analysis for improved isotopic determination of uranium—a computer simulation study."Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic Spectroscopy 89 (2013) 40-49. DOI

Sarkar, Arnab, Xianglei Mao, George C.Y Chan, and Richard E Russo."Laser ablation molecular isotopic spectrometry of water for ₁D²/₁H¹ ratio analysis."Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic Spectroscopy 88 (2013) 46-53. DOI

Harmon, Russell S, Richard E Russo, and Richard R Hark."Applications of laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy for geochemical and environmental analysis: A comprehensive review."Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic Spectroscopy 87 (2013) 11-26. DOI

Russo, Richard E, Xianglei Mao, Jhanis J Gonzalez, Vassilia Zorba, and Jong-Hyun Yoo."Laser ablation in analytical chemistry."Analytical Chemistry 85.13 (2013) 6162-6177. DOI

Chirinos, José R, Dayana D Oropeza, Jhanis J Gonzalez, María Ranaudo, and Richard E Russo."Determination of Vanadium/Nickel Proportionality in the Asphaltene Fraction of Crude Oil Using Thin-Layer Chromatography with Femtosecond Laser Ablation–Inductively Coupled Plasma–Mass Spectrometry."Energy & Fuels 27.5 (2013) 2431-2436. DOI

Lu, Yuan, Vassilia Zorba, Xianglei Mao, Ronger Zheng, and Richard E Russo."UV fs–ns double-pulse laser induced breakdown spectroscopy for high spatial resolution chemical analysis."Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry 28.5 (2013) 743-748. DOI

Kasem, Mohamed A, Jhanis J Gonzalez, Richard E Russo, and Mohamed A Harith."LIBS analysis of artificial calcified tissues matrices."Talanta 108 (2013) 53-58. DOI

Dong, Meirong, Xianglei Mao, Jhanis J Gonzalez, Jidong Lu, and Richard E Russo."Carbon Isotope Separation and Molecular Formation in Laser-Induced Plasmas by Laser Ablation Molecular Isotopic Spectrometry."Analytical Chemistry 85.5 (2013) 2899 - 2906. DOI

Choi, Inhee, Xianglei Mao, Jhanis J Gonzalez, and Richard E Russo."Plasma property effects on spectral line broadening in double-pulse laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy."Applied Physics A 110.4 (2013) 785-792. DOI

Russo, Richard E, Xianglei Mao, Jhanis J Gonzalez, and Jong-Hyun Yoo."Femtosecond vs. nanosecond laser pulse duration for laser ablation chemical analysis."Spectroscopy 28.1 (2013) 24-39.

Piscitelli, Vincent, Alberto J Fernández, Jhanis J Gonzalez, and Richard E Russo."Influencia de la longitud de onda en la espectroscopia de plasma inducido por láser."BISTUA: Revista de la Facultad de Ciencias Basicas 9.1 (2013) 32-39.

Syzdek, Jaroslaw S, Vassilia Zorba, Xianglei Mao, Richard E Russo, and Robert Kostecki."Ultrafast Laser Spectroscopy of Electrode/Electrolyte Interfaces."ECS Transactions 50.1 (2013) 39-48. DOI

2012

Oztoprak, Belgin G, Jhanis J Gonzalez, Jong-Hyun Yoo, Turgay Gulecen, Nazim Mutlu, Richard E Russo, Ozcan Gundogdu, and Arif Demir."Analysis and Classification of Heterogeneous Kidney Stones Using Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS)."Applied spectroscopy 66.11 (2012) 1353-1361. DOI

Quarles Jr, C. C Derrick, Jhanis J Gonzalez, Inhee Choi, Javier Ruiz, Xianglei Mao, R K Marcus, and Richard E Russo."Liquid sampling-atmospheric pressure glow discharge optical emission spectroscopy detection of laser ablation produced particles: A feasibility study."Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic Spectroscopy 76 (2012) 190-196. DOI

Dong, Meirong, Xianglei Mao, Jhanis J Gonzalez, Jidong Lu, and Richard E Russo."Time-resolved LIBS of atomic and molecular carbon from coal in air, argon and helium."Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry 27.12 (2012) 2066-2075. DOI

Gonzalez, Jhanis J, Dayana D Oropeza, Henry Longerich, Xianglei Mao, and Richard E Russo."Rapid bulk analysis using femtosecond laser ablation inductively coupled plasma time-of-flight mass spectrometry."Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry 27.9 (2012) 1405-1412. DOI

Wen, Sy-Bor, Chien-Fen Chen, Xianglei Mao, and Richard E Russo."Guiding and focusing of a nanosecond infrared laser within transient hollow plasma femtosecond filament channels."Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 45.35 (2012). DOI

Bol'shakov, Alexander A, Jong-Hyun Yoo, Jhanis J Gonzalez, Chunyi Liu, and Richard E Russo."Direct Real-Time Determination of Compositional Profiles in Structured Materials Using Laser Ablation Instruments: LIBS and LA-ICP-MS."Applied Industrial Optics: Spectroscopy, Imaging and Metrology (2012). DOI

Stolee, Jessica A, Bennett N Walker, Vassilia Zorba, Richard E Russo, and Akos Vertes."Laser–nanostructure interactions for ion production."Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 14.24 (2012) 8453-8471. DOI

Zorba, Vassilia, Jaroslaw S Syzdek, Xianglei Mao, Richard E Russo, and Robert Kostecki."Ultrafast laser induced breakdown spectroscopy of electrode/electrolyte interfaces."Applied Physics Letters 100.23 (2012). DOI

Lee, Seok-Hee, Hee-Sang Shim, Chan-Kyu Kim, Jong-Hyun Yoo, Richard E Russo, and Sungho Jeong."Analysis of the absorption layer of CIGS solar cell by laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy."Applied Optics 51.7 (2012) B115-B120. DOI

Carado, Anthony J, C. C Derrick Quarles Jr, Andrew M Duffin, Charles J Barinaga, Richard E Russo, R K Marcus, Gregory C Eiden, and David W Koppenaal."Femtosecond laser ablation particle introduction to a liquid sampling-atmospheric pressure glow discharge ionization source."Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry 27.3 (2012) 385-389. DOI

Russo, Richard E, Alexander A Bol'shakov, Jong-Hyun Yoo, and Jhanis J Gonzalez."Laser ablation plasmas for diagnostics of structured electronic and optical materials during or after laser processing."Laser Applications in Microelectronic and Optoelectronic Manufacturing (LAMOM) XVII 8243 (2012) 82430A-1. DOI

2011

Mao, Xianglei, Alexander A Bol'shakov, Inhee Choi, Christopher P McKay, Dale L Perry, Osman Sorkhabi, and Richard E Russo."Laser ablation molecular isotopic spectrometry: strontium and its isotopes."Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic Spectroscopy 66.11 (2011) 767-775. DOI