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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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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.

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Publications by Research Area

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

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Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

2008

Chu, Y.H., Q. Zhan, C.-H. Yang, M.P. Cruz, L.W. Martin, T. Zhao, P. Yu, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, P.T. Joseph, I.N. Lin, W. Tian, and D.G. Schlom."Low voltage performance of epitaxial BiFeO3 films on Si substrates through lanthanum substitution."Applied Physics Letters 92 (2008). DOI

2007

Zavaliche, F., T. Zhao, H. Zheng, F. Straub, M.P. Cruz, P.-L. Yang, D. Hao, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Electrically assisted magnetic recording in multiferroic nanostructures."Nano Letters 7 (2007) 1586-1590. DOI

Chu, Y.H., T. Zhao, M.P. Cruz, Q. Zhan, P.L. Yang, L.W. Martin, M. Huijben, C.H. Yang, F. Zavaliche, H. Zheng, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Ferroelectric size effects in multiferroic BiFeO3 thin films."Applied Physics Letters 90 (2007). DOI

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

Zhao, T., A. Scholl, F. Zavaliche, H. Zheng, M. Barry, A. Doran, K. Lee, M.P. Cruz, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Nanoscale x-ray magnetic circular dichroism probing of electric-field- induced magnetic switching in multiferroic nanostructures."Applied Physics Letters 90 (2007). DOI

Kalinin, S.V., S. Jesse, B.J. Rodriguez, K. Seal, A.P. Baddorf, T. Zhao, Y.H. Chu, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, E.A. Eliseev, A.N. Morozovska, B. Mirman, and E. Karapetian."Recent advances in electromechanical imaging on the nanometer scale: Polarization dynamics in ferroelectrics, biopolymers, and liquid imaging."Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Part 1: Regular Papers and Short Notes and Review Papers 46 (2007) 5674-5685. DOI

Rodriguez, B.J., S. Jesse, A.P. Baddorf, T. Zhao, Y.H. Chu, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, E.A. Eliseev, A.N. Morozovska, and S.V. Kalinin."Spatially resolved mapping of ferroelectric switching behavior in self-assembled multiferroic nanostructures: Strain, size, and interface effects."Nanotechnology 18 (2007). DOI

Jia, C.-L., V. Nagarajan, J.-Q. He, L. Houben, T. Zhao, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, K. Urban, and R. Waser."Unit-cell scale mapping of ferroelectricity and tetragonality in epitaxial ultrathin ferroelectric films."Nature Materials 6 (2007) 64-69. DOI

2006

Zhao, T., A. Scholl, F. Zavaliche, K. Lee, M. Barry, A. Doran, M.P. Cruz, Y.H. Chu, C. Ederer, N.A. Spaldin, R.R. Das, D.M. Kim, S.H. Baek, C.B. Eom, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Electrical control of antiferromagnetic domains in multiferroic BiFeO 3 films at room temperature."Nature Materials 5 (2006) 823-829. DOI

Zavaliche, F., S.Y. Yang, T. Zhao, Y.H. Chu, M.P. Cruz, C.B. Eom, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Multiferroic BiFeO3 films: Domain structure and polarization dynamics."Phase Transitions 79 (2006) 991-1017. DOI

Nagarajan, V., J. Junquera, J.Q. He, C.L. Jia, R. Waser, K. Lee, Y.K. Kim, Sunhee Baik, T. Zhao, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Ph. Ghosez, and K.M. Rabe."Scaling of structure and electrical properties in ultrathin epitaxial ferroelectric heterostructures."Journal of Applied Physics 100 (2006). DOI

2005

Ma, Z., F. Zavaliche, L. Chen, J. Ouyang, J. Melngailis, A.L. Roytburd, V. Vaithyanathan, D.G. Schlom, T. Zhao, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Effect of 90° domain movement on the piezoelectric response of patterned PbZr 0.2 Ti 0.8 O 3 SrTiO 3 Si heterostructures."Applied Physics Letters 87 (2005). DOI

Zhao, T., S.R. Shinde, S.B. Ogale, H. Zheng, T. Venkatesan, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and S.D. Sarma."Electric field effect in diluted magnetic insulator anatase Co: TiO 2."Physical Review Letters 94 (2005). DOI

Pintilie, L., I. Boerasu, M.J.M. Gomes, T. Zhao, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and M. Alexe."Metal-ferroelectric-metal structures with Schottky contacts. II. Analysis of the experimental current-voltage and capacitance-voltage characteristics of Pb (Zr,Ti) O 3 thin films."Journal of Applied Physics 98 (2005). DOI

Yang, S.Y., F. Zavaliche, L. Mohaddes-Ardabili, V. Vaithyanathan, D.G. Schlom, Y.J. Lee, Y.H. Chu, M.P. Cruz, Q. Zhan, T. Zhao, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Metalorganic chemical vapor deposition of lead-free ferroelectric BiFeO 3 films for memory applications."Applied Physics Letters 87 (2005). DOI

2004

Zhao, T., S.B. Ogale, S.R. Shinde, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, R. Droopad, J. Yu, K. Eisenbeiser, and J. Misewich."Colossal magnetoresistive manganite-based ferroelectric field-effect transistor on Si."Applied Physics Letters 84 (2004) 750-752. DOI

Zheng, H., J. Wang, S.E. Lofland, Z. Ma, L. Mohaddes-Ardabili, T. Zhao, L. Salamanca-Riba, S.R. Shinde, S.B. Ogale, F. Bai, D. Viehland, Y. Jia, D.G. Schlom, M. Wuttig, A. Roytburd, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Multiferroic BaTiO3-CoFe2O4 Nanostructures."Science 303 (2004) 661-663. DOI

Mohaddes-Ardabili, L., H. Zheng, S.B. Ogale, B. Hannoyer, W. Tian, J. Wang, S.E. Lofland, S.R. Shinde, T. Zhao, Y. Jia, L. Salamanca-Riba, D.G. Schlom, M. Wuttig, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Self-assembled single-crystal ferromagnetic iron nanowires formed by decomposition."Nature Materials 3 (2004) 533-538. DOI

Nagarajan, V., S. Prasertchoung, T. Zhao, H. Zheng, J. Ouyang, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, W. Tian, X.Q. Pan, D.M. Kim, C.B. Eom, H. Kohlstedt, and R. Waser."Size effects in ultrathin epitaxial ferroelectric heterostructures."Applied Physics Letters 84 (2004) 5225-5227. DOI

2003

Wolpert, D., K. Korolev, S. Sachs, J. Knab, W. Cox, J. Cerne, A.G. Markelz, T. Zhao, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and B.H. Moeckly."Direct measurements of optical phonons in SrTiO3 nanosystems."Physica E: Low-Dimensional Systems and Nanostructures 19 (2003) 236-239. DOI

Nagarajan, V., A. Roytburd, A. Stanishevsky, S. Prasertchoung, T. Zhao, L. Chen, J. Melngailis, O. Auciello, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Dynamics of ferroelastic domains in ferroelectric thin films."Nature Materials 2 (2003) 43-47. DOI

Wolpert, D., W. Cox, J. Cerne, A. Markelz, T. Zhao, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and Romanowicz M.."Finite size effects in ferroelectric nanosystems: Absence of mode softening."2003 Nanotechnology Conference and Trade Show - Nanotech 2003 2 (2003) 76-79.

2002

Nagarajan, V., A. Stanishevsky, L. Chen, T. Zhao, B.-T. Liu, J. Melngailis, A.L. Roytburd, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, J. Finder, Z. Yu, R. Droopad, and K. Eisenbeiser."Realizing intrinsic piezoresponse in epitaxial submicron lead zirconate titanate capacitors on Si."Applied Physics Letters 81 (2002) 4215-4217. DOI