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

Balke, N, S Choudhury, S Jesse, M Huijben, Y.H Chu, A.P Baddorf, L.Q Chen, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and S.V Kalinin."Deterministic control of ferroelastic switching in multiferroic materials."Nature Nanotechnology 4 (2009) 868-875. DOI

Maksymovych, P, S Jesse, M Huijben, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, A Morozovska, S Choudhury, L.-Q Chen, A.P Baddorf, and S.V Kalinin."Intrinsic nucleation mechanism and disorder effects in polarization switching on ferroelectric surfaces."Physical Review Letters 102 (2009). DOI

Rodriguez, B.J, S Choudhury, Y.H Chu, A Bhattacharyya, S Jesse, K Seal, A.P Baddorf, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, L.-Q Chen, and S.V Kalinin."Unraveling deterministic mesoscopic polarization switching mechanisms: spatially resolved studies of a tilt grain boundary in bismuth ferrite."Advanced Functional Materials 19 (2009) 2053-2063. DOI

2008

Zhang, J.X, Y.L Li, S Choudhury, L.Q Chen, Y.H Chu, F Zavaliche, M.P Cruz, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and Q.X Jia."Computer simulation of ferroelectric domain structures in epitaxial BiFe O3 thin films."Journal of Applied Physics 103 (2008). DOI

Jang, H.W, S.H Baek, D Ortiz, C.M Folkman, R.R Das, Y.H Chu, J.X Zhang, V Vaithyanathan, S Choudhury, Y.B Chen, X.Q Pan, D.G Schlom, L.Q Chen, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and C.B Eom."Strain tunability of spontaneous polarization and enhanced ferroelectric properties in epitaxial (001) BiFeO3 thin films."IEEE International Symposium on Applications of Ferroelectrics 3 (2008). DOI

Jang, H.W, S.H Baek, D Ortiz, C.M Folkman, R.R Das, Y.H Chu, P Shafer, J.X Zhang, S Choudhury, V Vaithyanathan, Y.B Chen, D.A Felker, M.D Biegalski, M.S Rzchowski, X.Q Pan, D.G Schlom, L.Q Chen, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and C.B Eom."Strain-induced polarization rotation in epitaxial (001) BiFeO3 thin films."Physical Review Letters 101 (2008). DOI

2007

Kalinin, S.V, B.J Rodriguez, S Jesse, Y.H Chu, T Zhao, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, S Choudhury, L.Q Chen, E.A Eliseev, and A.N Morozovska."Intrinsic single-domain switching in ferroelectric materials on a nearly ideal surface."Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104 (2007) 20204-20209. DOI