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)

2012

Stolee, Jessica A., Bennett N. Walker, Vassilia Zorba, Richard E. Russo, and Akos Vertes."Laser–nanostructure interactions for ion production."Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 14.24 (2012) 8453-8471. DOI

Zorba, Vassilia, Jaroslaw S. Syzdek, Xianglei Mao, Richard E. Russo, and Robert Kostecki."Ultrafast laser induced breakdown spectroscopy of electrode/electrolyte interfaces."Applied Physics Letters 100.23 (2012). DOI

2011

Russo, Richard E., Timothy W. Suen, Alexander A. Bol'shakov, Jong-Hyun Yoo, Osman Sorkhabi, Xianglei Mao, Jhanis J. Gonzalez, Dayana D. Oropeza, and Vassilia Zorba."Laser plasma spectrochemistry."Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry 26.8 (2011) 1596-1603. DOI

Zorba, Vassilia, Xianglei Mao, and Richard E. Russo."Ultrafast laser induced breakdown spectroscopy for high spatial resolution chemical analysis."Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic Spectroscopy 66.2 (2011) 189-192. DOI

2010

Barberoglou, Marios, Vassilia Zorba, Alexios Pagkozidis, Costas Fotakis, and Emmanuel Stratakis."Electrowetting properties of micro/nanostructured black silicon."Langmuir 26.15 (2010) 13007-13014. DOI

Zorba, Vassilia, Xiaobo Chen, and Samuel S. Mao."Superhydrophilic TiO₂ surface without photocatalytic activation."Applied Physics Letters 96.9 (2010) 093702-093702. DOI

Spanakis, Emmanuel, Marios Barberoglou, Vassilia Zorba, Panagiotis Tzanetakis, and Costas Fotakis."Metal coated silicon spike cold-electron emitters show improvement of performance with operation."Applied Physics Letters 96.3 (2010). DOI

2009

Papadopoulou, Evie L., Vassilia Zorba, Alexios Pagkozidis, Marios Barberoglou, Emmanuel Stratakis, and Costas Fotakis."Reversible wettability of ZnO nanostructured thin films prepared by pulsed laser deposition."Thin Solid Films 518.4 (2009) 1267-1270. DOI

Zorba, Vassilia, Xianglei Mao, and Richard E. Russo."Optical far-and near-field femtosecond laser ablation of Si for nanoscale chemical analysis."Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry 396.1 (2009) 173-180. DOI

Zorba, Vassilia, Xianglei Mao, and Richard E. Russo."Laser wavelength effects in ultrafast near-field laser nanostructuring of Si."Applied Physics Letter 95.4 (2009) 041110-1-041110-3. DOI