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)

2017

Chen, D., C.T. Nelson, X. Zhu, C.R. Serrao, J.D. Clarkson, Z. Wang, Y. Gao, S.-L. Hsu, L.R. Dedon, Z. Chen, D. Yi, H.-J. Liu, D. Zeng, Y.-H. Chu, J. F. Liu, D.G. Schlom, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."A Strain-Driven Antiferroelectric-to-Ferroelectric Phase Transition in La-Doped BiFeO3 Thin Films on Si."Nano Letters 17 (2017) 5823-5829. DOI

2016

Gao, Y., J.-M. Hu, C.T. Nelson, T.N. Yang, Y. Shen, L.Q. Chen, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and C.W. Nan."Dynamic in situ observation of voltage-driven repeatable magnetization reversal at room temperature."Scientific Reports 6 (2016). DOI

2015

Zhou, Z., M. Trassin, Y. Gao, Y. Gao, D. Qiu, K. Ashraf, T. Nan, X. Yang, S.R. Bowden, D.T. Pierce, M.D. Stiles, J. Unguris, M. Liu, B.M. Howe, G.J. Brown, S. Salahuddin, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and N.X. Sun."Probing electric field control of magnetism using ferromagnetic resonance."Nature Communications 6 (2015). DOI

2014

Heron, J.T., J.L. Bosse, Q. He, Y. Gao, M. Trassin, L. Ye, J.D. Clarkson, C. W. Wang, J. F. Liu, S. Salahuddin, D.C. Ralph, D.G. Schlom, J. Íñiguez, B.D. Huey, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Deterministic switching of ferromagnetism at room temperature using an electric field."Nature 516 (2014) 370-373. DOI

2001

Krauss, A.R., O. Auciello, A.M. Dhote, J. Im, S. Aggarwal, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, E.A. Irene, Y. Gao, and A.H. Mueller."Studies of ferroelectric film growth and capacitor interface processes via in situ analytical techniques and correlation with electrical properties."Integrated Ferroelectrics 32 (2001) 121-131.

2000

Auciello, O., A.R. Krauss, J. Im, A. Dhote, D.M. Gruen, E.A. Irene, Y. Gao, A.H. Mueller, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Studies of ferroelectric heterostructure thin films and interfaces, via in situ analytical techniques."Integrated Ferroelectrics 28 (2000) 1-12. DOI

1999

Auciello, O., A.R. Krauss, I.M. Jaemo, A. Dhote, D.M. Gruen, S. Aggarwal, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, E.A. Irene, Y. Gao, and A.H. Mueller."Studies of ferroelectric heterostructure thin films, interfaces, and device-related processes via in situ analytical techniques."Integrated Ferroelectrics 27 (1999) 103-118. DOI