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)

2007

Deb, Aniruddha, Uwe Bergmann, Stephen P Cramer, and Elton J Cairns."In situ X-ray absorption spectroscopic study of Li_1.05Ni_0.35Co_0.25Mn_0.4O₂ cathode material coated with LiCoO₂."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 154 (2007) A534-A541. DOI

2006

Deb, Aniruddha, Uwe Bergmann, Stephen P Cramer, and Elton J Cairns."Local structure of LiNi_0.5Mn_0.5O₂ cathode material probed by in situ X-ray absorption spectroscopy."Journal of Applied Physics 99 (2006). DOI

2005

Deb, Aniruddha, Uwe Bergmann, Stephen P Cramer, and Elton J Cairns."Structural investigations of LiFePO₄ electrodes and in situ studies by Fe X-ray absorption spectroscopy."Electrochimica Acta 50.25-26 (2005) 5200-5207. DOI

Deb, Aniruddha, Uwe Bergmann, Stephen P Cramer, and Elton J Cairns."In situ x-ray absorption spectroscopic study of the Li[Ni_1/3Co_1/3Mn_1/3]O₂ cathode material."Journal of Applied Physics 97 (2005). DOI

2004

Deb, Aniruddha, Uwe Bergmann, Elton J Cairns, and Stephen P Cramer."X-ray absorption spectroscopy study of the Li_xFePO₄ cathode during cycling using a novel electrochemical in situ reaction cell."Journal of Synchrotron Radiation 11 (2004) 497-504. DOI

Deb, Aniruddha, Uwe Bergmann, Elton J Cairns, and Stephen P Cramer."Structural investigations of LiFePO₄ electrodes by Fe X-ray absorption spectroscopy."The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 108 (2004) 7046-7051. DOI

2002

Braun, Artur, Hongxin Wang, Uwe Bergmann, Michael C Tucker, Weiwei Gu, Stephen P Cramer, and Elton J Cairns."Origin of chemical shift of manganese in lithium battery electrode materials—a comparison of hard and soft X-ray techniques."Journal of Power Sources 112.1 (2002) 231-235. DOI

2001

Braun, Artur, Soenke Seifert, Pappannan Thiyagarajan, Stephen P Cramer, and Elton J Cairns."In situ anomalous small angle X-ray scattering and absorption on an operating rechargeable lithium ion battery cell."Electrochemistry Communications 3.3 (2001) 136-141. DOI

2000

Horne, Craig R, Uwe Bergmann, Melissa M Grush, Rupert C.C Perera, David L Ederer, Thomas A Callcott, Elton J Cairns, and Stephen P Cramer."Electronic Structure of Chemically-Prepared Li_xMn₂O₄ Determined by Mn X-ray Absorption and Emission Spectroscopies."The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 104 (2000) 9587-9596. DOI

Grush, Melissa M, Craig R Horne, Rupert C.C Perera, David L Ederer, Stephen P Cramer, Elton J Cairns, and Thomas A Callcott."Correlating Electronic Structure with Cycling Performance of Substituted LiMn₂O₄ Electrode Materials: A Study Using the Techniques of Soft X-ray Absorption and Emission."Chemistry of Materials 12.3 (2000) 659-664. DOI

Horne, Craig R, Uwe Bergmann, Jaekook Kim, Kathryn A Striebel, Arumugam Manthiram, Stephen P Cramer, and Elton J Cairns."Structural Investigations of Li_1.5+xNa_0.5MnO_2.85I_0.12 Electrodes by Mn X-Ray Absorption Near Edge Spectroscopy."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 147 (2000) 395-398. DOI

1997

Cairns, Elton J, Craig R Horne, B.J.R Weiss, Melissa M Grush, Stephen P Cramer, O Savadogo, and Pierre R Roberge."X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopic Investigations of Li_xMn₂O₄."New Materials for Fuel Cell and Modern Battery Systems II (1997).