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)

2014

Lee, Seok-Hee, Chan-Kyu Kim, Hee-Sang Shim, Jong-Hyun Yoo, Richard E. Russo, and Sungho Jeong."Ablation and spectroscopic characteristics of thin CuIn_1-xGa_xSe₂ solar cell films fabricated by co-evaporation and co-sputtering processes."International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing-Green Technology 1.1 (2014) 17-24. DOI

2012

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

2001

Yoo, Jong-Hyun, Sungho Jeong, Xianglei Mao, Ralph Greif, and Richard E. Russo."Response to "Comment on 'Evidence for phase explosion and generation of large particles during high power nanosecond laser ablation of silicon'"."Applied Physics Letters 79.3 (2001) 444-445. DOI

2000

Yoo, Jong-Hyun, Sungho Jeong, Ralph Greif, and Richard E. Russo."Explosive change in crater properties during high power nanosecond laser ablation of silicon."Journal of Applied Physics 88.3 (2000) 1638-1649. DOI

Yoo, Jong-Hyun, Sungho Jeong, Xianglei Mao, Ralph Greif, and Richard E. Russo."Evidence for phase-explosion and generation of large particles during high power nanosecond laser ablation of silicon."Applied Physics Letters 76.6 (2000) 783-785. DOI

1999

Jeong, Sungho, Ralph Greif, and Richard E. Russo."Shock wave and material vapour plume propagation during excimer laser ablation of aluminium samples."Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 32.19 (1999) 2578-2585. DOI

Jeong, Sungho, Oleg V. Borisov, Jong-Hyun Yoo, Xianglei Mao, and Richard E. Russo."Effects of particle size distribution on inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry signal intensity during laser ablation of glass samples."Analytical Chemistry 71.22 (1999) 5123-5130. DOI

1998

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

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

1997

Jeong, Sungho, Ralph Greif, and Richard E. Russo."Laser Heating of Metal Targets Including the Influence of the Background Pressure."ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition 351 (1997) 63-73.

1996

Jeong, Sungho, Ralph Greif, and Richard E. Russo."Laser heating of a cavity versus a plane surface for metal targets utilizing photothermal deflection measurements."Journal of Applied Physics 80.4 (1996) 1996-2002. DOI