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.
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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)

1999

Liu, Haichen, Xianglei Mao, Jong-Hyun Yoo, and Richard E Russo."Nonlinear changes in plasma and crater properties during laser ablation of Si."Applied Physics Letters 75.9 (1999) 1216-1218. DOI

1998

Mao, Samuel S, Xianglei Mao, Ralph Greif, and Richard E Russo."Breakdown of equilibrium approximation for nanosecond laser-induced electron emission from silicon."Applied Physics Letters 73.10 (1998) 1331-1333. DOI

Church, Matthew N, Jonathan D Spear, Richard E Russo, Gregory L Klunder, Patrick M Grant, and Brian D Andresen."Transient Isotachophoretic−Electrophoretic Separations of Lanthanides with Indirect Laser-Induced Fluorescence Detection."Analytical Chemistry 70.13 (1998) 2475-2480. DOI

Chan, Wing-Tat, Amy P. K Leung, Xianglei Mao, and Richard E Russo."Effects of gas environment on picosecond laser ablation."Applied Surface Science 127-129 (1998) 269-273. DOI

Jeong, Sungho, Ralph Greif, and Richard E Russo."Propagation of the shock wave generated from excimer laser heating of aluminum target in comparison with the idea blast wave theory."Applied Surface Science 127-129 (1998) 1029-1034. DOI

Hipwell, M. M Cynthia, Chang-Lin Tien, Xianglei Mao, and Richard E Russo."The dual beam picosecond continuum technique for measurement of short time-scale transmission spectra."Experimental Heat Transfer 11.4 (1998) 281-297. DOI

Klunder, Gregory L, John E Andrews, Patrick M Grant, Brian D Andresen, Matthew N Church, Jonathan D Spear, and Richard E Russo."Nuclear fission product analysis using capillary electrophoresis."Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry 236.1-2 (1998) 149-153. DOI

Russo, Richard E, David B Geohegan, Richard F Haglund, and Kouichi Murakami."Conference on Laser Ablation - Preface."Applied Surface Science 129 (1998) 7-10.

Mao, Xianglei, Oleg V Borisov, and Richard E Russo."Enhancements in laser ablation inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectrometry based on laser properties and ambient environment."Spectrochimica Acta Part B-Atomic Spectroscopy 53 (1998) 731-739.

Grant, Patrick M, Kenton J Moody, Ian D Hutcheon, Douglas L Phinney, Jeffrey S Haas, Alan M Volpe, James J Oldani, Richard E Whipple, Nancy Stoyer, Armando Alcaraz, John E Andrews, Richard E Russo, Gregory L Klunder, Brian D Andresen, and Shawn Cantlin."Forensic analyses of suspect illicit nuclear material."Journal of Forensics Science 43.3 (1998) 680-688.

Leung, Amy P. K, Wing-Tat Chan, Xianglei Mao, and Richard E Russo."Influence of gas environment on picosecond laser ablation sampling efficiency and ICP conditions."Analytical Chemistry 70 (1998) 4709-4716.

Russo, Richard E, David B Geohegan, Richard F Haglund, and Kouichi Murakami."Laser ablation - Preface."Applied Surface Science 129 (1998).

Mao, Xianglei, Adeline C Ciocan, Oleg V Borisov, and Richard E Russo."Laser ablation processes investigated using inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopy (ICP-AES)."Applied Surface Science 129 (1998) 262-268.

Russo, Richard E, Xianglei Mao, and Oleg V Borisov."Laser ablation sampling."Trac-Trends in Analytical Chemistry 17 (1998) 461-469.

Grant, Patrick M, Kenton J Moody, Ian D Hutcheon, and Richard E Russo."Nuclear forensics in Law Enforcement."Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry 235 (1998) 129-132.

Jeong, Sungho, Ralph Greif, and Richard E Russo."Numerical modeling of pulsed laser evaporation of aluminum targets."Applied Surface Science 129 (1998) 177-183.

Ciocan, Adeline C, Xianglei Mao, Oleg V Borisov, and Richard E Russo."Optical emission spectroscopy studies of the influence of laser ablated mass on dry inductively coupled plasma conditions."Spectrochimica Acta Part B-Atomic Spectroscopy 53 (1998) 463-470.

Spear, Jonathan D, Gregory L Klunder, and Richard E Russo."Photothermal deflection spectroscopy of an aqueous sample in a narrow bore quartz capillary."Review of Scientific Instrumentation 69 (1998) 2267.

Hipwell, M. M Cynthia, Chang-Lin Tien, Xianglei Mao, and Richard E Russo."Picosecond differential transmission measurements on porous silicon."Microscale Thermophysical Engineering 2.2 (1998) 87-99. DOI

Mao, Xianglei, Adeline C Ciocan, and Richard E Russo."Preferential vaporization during laser ablation inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopy."Applied Spectroscopy 52 (1998) 913-918.

Mao, Samuel S, Xianglei Mao, Ralph Greif, and Richard E Russo."Simulation of infrared picosecond laser-induced electron emission from semiconductors."Applied Surface Science 129 (1998) 206-211.

Mao, Samuel S, Xianglei Mao, Jong-Hyun Yoo, Ralph Greif, and Richard E Russo."Thermionic electron emission from narrow band-gap semiconductors under picosecond laser excitation."Journal of Applied Physics 83 (1998) 4462-4465.

Borisov, Oleg V, Xianglei Mao, Adeline C Ciocan, and Richard E Russo."Time-resolved parametric studies of laser ablation using inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopy."Applied Surface Science 129 (1998) 315-320.

1997

Klunder, Gregory L, John E Andrews, Patrick M Grant, Brian D Andresen, and Richard E Russo."Analysis of Fission Products Using Capillary Electrophoresis with On-Line Radioactivity Detection."Analytical Chemistry 69.15 (1997) 2988-2993. DOI

Mao, Xianglei, Wing-Tat Chan, and Richard E Russo."Influence of sample surface condition on chemical analysis using laser ablation inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopy."Applied Spectroscopy 51.7 (1997) 1047-1054.