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)

1999

Aggarwal, S, S Madhukar, B Nagaraj, I.G Jenkins, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, L Boyer, and J .T Jr."Can lead nonstoichiometry influence ferroelectric properties of Pb(Zr,Ti)O3 thin films?."Applied Physics Letters 75 (1999) 716-718. DOI

Friessnegg, T, B Nielsen, V.J Ghosh, A.R Moodenbaugh, S Madhukar, S Aggarwal, D.J Keeble, E.H Poindexter, P Mascher, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Defect identification in (La, Sr)CoO3-δ using positron annihilation spectroscopy."Materials Research Society Symposium - Proceedings 541 (1999) 161-165.

Madhukar, S, S Aggarwal, A.M Dhote, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, S.B Samavedam, S Choopun, and R.P Sharma."Pulsed laser-ablation deposition of thin films of molybdenum suicide and its properties as a conducting barrier for ferroelectric random-access memory technology."Journal of Materials Research 14 (1999) 940-947.

1998

Jenkins, I.G, T.K Song, S Madhukar, A.S Prakash, S Aggarwal, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Dynamics of polarization loss in (Pb, La)(Zr, Ti)O3 thin film capacitors."Applied Physics Letters 72 (1998) 3300-3302. DOI

Aggarwal, S, S.R Perusse, S Madhukar, T.K Song, C.L Canedy, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, S Choopun, R.P Sharma, T Venkatesan, and S.M Green."Rapid thermal annealing of oxide electrodes for nonvolatile ferroelectric memory structures."Journal of Electroceramics 2 (1998) 171-179. DOI

Keeble, D.J, B Nielsen, A Krishnan, K.G Lynn, S Madhukar, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and C.F Young."Vacancy defects in (Pb, La)(Zr, Ti)O3 capacitors observed by positron annihilation."Applied Physics Letters 73 (1998) 318-320. DOI

Keeble, D.J, A Krishnan, T Friessnegg, B Nielsen, S Madhukar, S Aggarwal, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and E.H Poindexter."Vacancy defects in thin-film La0.5Sr0.5CoO3-δ observed by positron annihilation."Applied Physics Letters 73 (1998) 508-510. DOI

1997

Madhukar, S, S Aggarwal, A.M Dhote, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, A Krishnan, D Keeble, and E Poindexter."Effect of oxygen stoichiometry on the electrical properties of La0.5Sr0.5CoO3 electrodes."Journal of Applied Physics 81 (1997) 3543-3547. DOI

Dhote, A.M, S Madhukar, D Young, T Venkatesan, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, C.M Cotell, and J.M Benedetto."Low temperature growth and reliability of ferroelectric memory cell integrated on Si with conducting barrier stack."Journal of Materials Research 12 (1997) 1589-1594. DOI

Keeble, D.J, S Madhukar, B Nielsen, A Krishnan, P Asoka-Kumar, S Aggarwal, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and E.H Poindexter."Vacancy related defects in La0.5Sr0.5CoO3-δ thin films."Materials Research Society Symposium - Proceedings 477 (1997) 229-233.

1996

Dhote, A.M, S Madhukar, W Wei, T Venkatesan, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and C.M Cotell."Direct integration of ferroelectric La-Sr-Co-O/Pb-Nb-Zr-Ti-O/La-Sr-Co-O capacitors on silicon with conducting barrier layers."Applied Physics Letters 68 (1996) 1350-1352. DOI

1995

Dhote, A.M, S Madhukar, W Wei, T Venkatesan, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and C.M Cotell."Direct integration of ferroelectric La-Sr-Co-O/Pb-Nb-Zr-Ti-O/La-Sr-Co-O capacitors on silicon with conducting barrier layers."Applied Physics Letters (1995) 1350. DOI