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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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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)

2003

Richardson, Thomas J, and Jonathan L Slack."Lithium-Based Electrochromic Mirrors."203rd Meeting of the Electrochemical Society (2003).

2002

Richardson, Thomas J, Baker Farangis, Jonathan L Slack, Ponnusamy Nachimuthu, Rupert C.C Perera, Nobumichi Tamura, and Michael D Rubin."X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy of Transition Metal-Magnesium Hydride Thin Films."Journal of Alloys and Compounds 356-357 (2002) 204-207. DOI

Farangis, Baker, Ponnusamy Nachimuthu, Thomas J Richardson, Jonathan L Slack, Rupert C.C Perera, Eric M Gullikson, Dennis W Lindle, and Michael D Rubin."In Situ X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy Study of Hydrogen Absorption by Nickel-Magnesium Thin Films."Physical Review B 67.8 (2002). DOI

Farangis, Baker, Ponnusamy Nachimuthu, Thomas J Richardson, Jonathan L Slack, Bruno K Meyer, Rupert C.C Perera, and Michael D Rubin."Structural and Electronic Properties of Magnesium-3D Transition Metal Switchable Mirrors."Fifth International Meeting on Electrochromism (2002). DOI

Shim, Joongpyo, Robert Kostecki, Thomas J Richardson, Xiangyun Song, and Kathryn A Striebel."Electrochemical and physical analysis of a Li-ion cell cycled at elevated temperature."Journal of Power Sources 112.1 (2002) 222-230. DOI

Doeff, Marca M, Thomas J Richardson, Joel Hollingsworth, Chun-Wei Yuan, and Marcela Gonzales."Synthesis and characterization of a copper-substituted manganese oxide with the Na_0.44MnO₂ structure."Journal of power sources 112 (2002) 294-297. DOI

Richardson, Thomas J."New Electrochromic Mirror Systems."Solid State Ionics 165 (2002) 305-308.

Myers, Whittier R, Lin-Wang Wang, Thomas J Richardson, and Michael D Rubin."Calculation of Thermodynamic, Electronic, and Optical Properties of Monoclinic Mg₂NiH₄."Journal of Applied Physics 91.8 (2002) 4879-4885. DOI

Tucker, Michael C, Marca M Doeff, Thomas J Richardson, Rita Fiñones, Elton J Cairns, and Jeffrey A Reimer."Hyperfine fields at the Li site in LiFePO₄-type olivine materials for lithium rechargeable batteries: A ⁷Li MAS NMR and SQUID study."Journal of the American Chemical Society 124.15 (2002) 3832-3833. DOI

Tucker, Michael C, Marca M Doeff, Thomas J Richardson, Rita Fiñones, Jeffrey A Reimer, and Elton J Cairns."⁷Li and ³¹P magic angle spinning nuclear magnetic resonance of LiFePO₄-type materials."Electrochemical and Solid-State Letters 5 (2002) A95-A98. DOI

2001

Richardson, Thomas J, Jonathan L Slack, Baker Farangis, and Michael D Rubin."Mixed Metal Films with Switchable Optical Properties."Applied Physics Letters 80.8 (2001) 1349-1351. DOI

Zhang, Xuerong, Robert Kostecki, Thomas J Richardson, James K Pugh, and Philip N Ross."Electrochemical and infrared studies of the reduction of organic carbonates."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 148.12 (2001) A1341-A1345. DOI

Richardson, Thomas J, Jonathan L Slack, Robert D Armitage, Robert Kostecki, Baker Farangis, and Michael D Rubin."Switchable Mirrors Based on Nickel-Magnesium Films."Applied Physics Letters 78.20 (2001) 3047-3049. DOI

Doeff, Marca M, Abraham Anapolsky, Ludvig Edman, Thomas J Richardson, and Lutgard C De Jonghe."A high-rate manganese oxide for rechargeable lithium battery applications."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 148 (2001) A230-A236. DOI

2000

Richardson, Thomas J, Jonathan L Slack, and Michael D Rubin."Electrochromism in Copper Oxide Thin Films."4th International Meeting on Electrochromism (2000).

Richardson, Thomas J, and Michael D Rubin."Liquid Phase Deposition of Electrochromic Thin Films."Electrochimica Acta 46 (2000) 2119-2123.

1999

Armitage, Robert D, Michael D Rubin, Thomas J Richardson, Nada O'Brien, and Yong Chen."Solid State Gadolinium-Magnesium Hydride Optical Switch."Applied Physics Letters 75.13 (1999) 1863-1865.

1998

Richardson, Thomas J, Klaus von Rottkay, Jonathan L Slack, Franck Michalak, and Michael D Rubin."Tungsten-Vanadium Oxide Sputtered Films for Electrochromic Devices."Electrochemical Society: Molecular Functions of Electroactive Thin Films 98-26 (1998).

Rougier, Aline, Kathryn A Striebel, Shi-Jie Wen, Thomas J Richardson, Ronald P Reade, and Elton J Cairns."Characterization of pulsed laser-deposited LiMn₂O₄ thin films for rechargeable lithium batteries."Applied Surface Science 134.1-4 (1998) 107-115. DOI

von Rottkay, Klaus, Michael D Rubin, Franck Michalak, Robert D Armitage, Thomas J Richardson, Jonathan L Slack, and Peter A Duine."Effect of Hydrogen Insertion on the Optical Properties of PD-Coated Magnesium Lanthanides."Electrochimica Acta (1998).

Rubin, Michael D, Shi-Jie Wen, Thomas J Richardson, John B Kerr, Klaus von Rottkay, and Jonathan L Slack."Electrochromic lithium nickel oxide by pulsed laser deposition and sputtering."Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 54.1-4 (1998) 59-66. DOI

Michalak, Franck, Klaus von Rottkay, Thomas J Richardson, Jonathan L Slack, and Michael D Rubin."Electrochromic Lithium Nickel Oxide Thin Films by RF-Sputtering from a LiNiO₂ Target."Electrochimica Acta 44 (1998) 3085-3092.

Kostecki, Robert, Thomas J Richardson, and Frank R McLarnon."Photochemical and photoelectrochemical behavior of a novel TiO₂/Ni(OH)₂ electrode."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 145.7 (1998) 2380-2385. DOI

1997

von Rottkay, Klaus, Thomas J Richardson, Michael D Rubin, Jonathan L Slack, and Lisen Kullman."Influence of stoichiometry on the electrochromic cerium-titanium oxide compounds."11th International Conference of Solid State Ionics (1997).

von Rottkay, Klaus, Thomas J Richardson, Michael D Rubin, and Jonathan L Slack."Effective Medium Approximation of the Optical properties of electrochromic cerium-titanium oxide compounds."SPIE Proceedings 3138 (1997) 19-Sep.