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)

2005

Zeng, Xianzhong, Xianglei Mao, Samuel S. Mao, Sy-Bor Wen, Ralph Greif, and Richard E. Russo."Laser-Induced Shockwave Propagation from Ablation in a Cavity."Applied Physics Letters (2005).

Mao, Xianglei, Xianzhong Zeng, Sy-Bor Wen, and Richard E. Russo."Time-resolved plasma properties for double pulsed LIBS of silicon."Spectrochimica Acta Part B-Atomic Spectroscopy (2005).

2004

Zeng, Xianzhong, Xianglei Mao, Sy-Bor Wen, Ralph Greif, and Richard E. Russo."Energy deposition and shock wave propagation during pulsed laser ablation in fused silica cavities."Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 37 (2004) 1132-1136.

Zeng, Xianzhong, Xianglei Mao, Ralph Greif, and Richard E. Russo."Experimental investigation of ablation efficiency and laser-induced plasma expansion during femtosecond and nanosecond laser ablation of silicon."Applied Physics A: Materials science and processing 80 (2004) 237-241.

Mao, Samuel S., Xianzhong Zeng, Xianglei Mao, and Richard E. Russo."Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy: flat surface vs. cavity structures."J.Anal.Atom.Spectrom. 19 (2004) 495-498.

Zeng, Xianzhong, Xianglei Mao, Samuel S. Mao, Jong-Hyun Yoo, Ralph Greif, and Richard E. Russo."Laser-plasma interactions in fused silica cavities."Journal of Applied Physics 95 (2004) 816-822.

Liu, Chunyi, Xianglei Mao, Samuel S. Mao, Xianzhong Zeng, Ralph Greif, and Richard E. Russo."Nanosecond and femtosecond laser ablation of brass: Particulate and ICPMS measurements."Analytical Chemistry 76 (2004) 379-383.

2003

Satta, Mauro, Xianzhong Zeng, Xianglei Mao, Samuel S. Mao, Richard E. Russo, Anna Giardini Guidoni, and Aldo Mele."Laser plasma spectroscopy of Al-Cu-Fe quasicrystal and alloy."Applied Spectroscopy 57.7 (2003) 737-743.

Zeng, Xianzhong, Samuel S. Mao, Chunyi Liu, Xianglei Mao, Ralph Greif, and Richard E. Russo."Laser-induced plasmas in micromachined fused silica cavities."Appl.Phys.Lett. 83 (2003) 240-242.

Zeng, Xianzhong, Samuel S. Mao, Chunyi Liu, Xianglei Mao, Ralph Greif, and Richard E. Russo."Plasma diagnostics during laser ablation in a cavity."Spectrochim.Acta Pt.B-At.Spec. 58 (2003) 867-877.