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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.

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Publications by Research Area

Buildings

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Energy Storage

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Transportation

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

1994

Özer, Nilgün, Timothy Barreto, Temel Buyuklimanl, and Carl M Lampert."Characterization of Sol-Gel Deposited Niobium Pentoxide Films for Electrochromic Devices."Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 36 (1994) 433-443.

Özer, Nilgün, Yongxiang He, and Carl M Lampert."Characterization of Tantalum Oxide Films Prepared by Sol-Gel Process for electrochemical devices." (1994).

Jin, S., M. McCormack, T.H. Tiefel, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Colossal magnetoresistance in La-Ca-Mn-O ferromagnetic thin films (invited)."Journal of Applied Physics 76 (1994) 6929-6933. DOI

Ward, Gregory J.."A Contrast-Based Scalefactor for Luminance Display." (1994).

Chen, L.H., S. Jin, T.H. Tiefel, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Creation of bulk, superlatticelike structure and giant magnetoresistance effect in a deformed Cu-Ni-Fe alloy."Applied Physics Letters 64 (1994) 1039-1041. DOI

Wang, Shengwei, Philip Haves, and Pierre Nusgens."Design, Construction and Commissioning of Building Emulators for EMCS Applications."ASHRAE Transactions 100.Pt. 1 (1994).

Speck, J.S., A. Seifert, W. Pompe, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Domain configurations due to multiple misfit relaxation mechanisms in epitaxial ferroelectric thin films. II. Experimental verification and implications."Journal of Applied Physics 76 (1994) 477-483. DOI

Lee, J., S. Esayan, A. Safari, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Effect of ultraviolet light on fatigue of lead zirconate titanate thin-film capacitors."Applied Physics Letters 65 (1994) 254-256. DOI

Dorda, , Andreas A., Frank R. McLarnon, and Elton J. Cairns."The effect of zinc ions on the platinum electrode in alkaline solutions."Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry 364 (1994) 71-77. DOI

Clear, Robert D., and Sam M. Berman."Environmental and Health Aspects of Lighting: Mercury."Journal of the Illuminating Engineering Society 23 (1994) 138-156.

Ghonge, S.G., E. Goo, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, R. Haakenaasen, D.K. Fork, and Garratt-Reed G.W.."Epitaxial ferroelectric thin films."Proceedings - Annual Meeting, Microscopy Society of America (1994) 572-573.

Ramesh, Ramamoorthy, T. Sands, V.G. Keramidas, and D.K. Fork."Epitaxial ferroelectric thin films for memory applications."Materials Science and Engineering B 22 (1994) 283-289. DOI

Simion, B.M., Ramamoorthy Ramesh, V.G. Keramidas, R.L. Pfeffer, G. Thomas, and E. Marinero."Epitaxial magnetic garnet thin films and heterostructures by pulsed laser deposition."Materials Research Society Symposium - Proceedings 341 (1994) 65-70.

Dexter, Arthur L., and Philip Haves."Evaluating the Performance of Building Control Systems using an Emulator."Building Services Engineering Research & Technology 15.3 (1994). DOI

Dexter, Arthur L., Richard S. Fargus, and Philip Haves."Fault Detection in Air-Conditioning Systems Using A.I. Techniques."BEP'94 (1994).

Lee, J., Ramamoorthy Ramesh, B. Dutta, T.S. Ravi, T. Sands, and V.G. Keramidas."Ferroelectric la-sr-co-o/pb-la-zr-ti-o/la-sr-co-o heterostructures on silicon."Integrated Ferroelectrics 5 (1994) 145-154. DOI

Newman, Nathan, T.C. Fu, Z. Liu, Zuzanna Liliental-Weber, Michael D. Rubin, James S. Chan, Erin C. Jones, Jennifer T. Ross, Ian M. Tidswell, Kin Man Yu, Nathan W. Cheung, and Eicke R. Weber."Fundamental Materials-Issues Involved in the Growth of GaN by Molecular Beam Epitaxy." (1994).

Benedetto, J.M., M.L. Roush, I.K. Lloyd, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and Anon."Imprint of ferroelectric PLZT thin-film capacitors with lanthanum strontium cobalt oxide electrodes."IEEE International Symposium on Applications of Ferroelectrics (1994) 66-69.

Ramesh, Ramamoorthy, J. Lee, V.G. Keramidas, D.K. Fork, S. Ghonge, E. Goo, and O. Auciello."Interfaces in ferroelectric metal oxide heterostructures."Materials Research Society Symposium - Proceedings 343 (1994) 431-443.

Peitsman, Henk C., Shengwei Wang, Philip Haves, Satu H. Kärki, and Cheol P. Park."Investigation of the Reliability of Building Emulators for Testing Energy Management and Control Systems."ASHRAE Transactions 100.Pt. 1 (1994).

Striebel, Kathryn A., Frank R. McLarnon, and Elton J. Cairns."Laboratory-scale evaluation of secondary alkaline zinc batteries for electric vehicles."Journal of Power Sources 47 (1994) 1-11. DOI

Simion, B.M., Ramamoorthy Ramesh, V.G. Keramidas, G. Thomas, E. Marinero, and R.L. Pfeffer."Magnetic characterization of epitaxial Y5FeeO 12/Bi3Fe5O12 and Y 5Fe3O12/Eu1Bi2Fe 5 O12 heterostructures grown by pulsed laser deposition."Journal of Applied Physics 76 (1994) 6287-6289. DOI

Chen, L.H., T.H. Tiefel, S. Jin, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Magnetoresistance in a deformed Cu-Ni-Fe alloy with ultrafine multilayer structure."Journal of Materials Research 9 (1994) 1134-1139. DOI

Chen, L.H., S. Jin, T.H. Tiefel, S.H. Chang, M. Eibschutz, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Magnetoresistance in a spinodally decomposed Cu-Ni-Fe alloy consisting of two ferromagnetic phases."Physical Review B 49 (1994) 9194-9197. DOI

Russo, Richard E., Xianglei Mao, and Dale L. Perry."Make Catalytic Coatings by Pulsed-Laser Deposition - the Technique Produces Multicomponent Inorganic Films with Defined Composition and Structure - It Is Illustrated by the Preparation of A Supported Caniko Catalyst."Chemtech 24 (1994) 14-17.