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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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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

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)

1997

Shannon, Mark A., Xianglei Mao, and Richard E. Russo."Monitoring laser-energy coupling to solid materials: Plasma-shielding and phase change."Materials Science and Engineering B-Solid State Materials for Advanced Technology 45 (1997) 172-179.

1996

Shannon, Mark A., Boris Rubinsky, and Richard E. Russo."Mechanical stress power measurements during high-power laser ablation."Journal of Applied Physics 80.8 (1996) 4665-4672. DOI

Shannon, Mark A., and Richard E. Russo."Monitoring stress power during high-power pulsed laser-material interactions."Applied Surface Science 96-98 (1996) 149-153.

Mao, Xianglei, Wing-Tat Chan, Manuel Caetano, Mark A. Shannon, and Richard E. Russo."Preferential vaporization and plasma shielding during nano-second laser ablation."Applied Surface Science 96-98 (1996) 126-130. DOI

Russo, Richard E., Xianglei Mao, Manuel Caetano, and Mark A. Shannon."Fundamental characteristics of laser-material interactions ( ablation ) in noble gases at atmospheric pressure using inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectroscopy."Appl.Surf.Sci. 96-98 (1996) 144-148.

1995

Shannon, Mark A., Xianglei Mao, Alberto J Fernández, Wing-Tat Chan, and Richard E. Russo."Laser Ablation Mass Removal versus Incident Power Density during Solid Sampling for Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectroscopy."Analytical Chemistry 67.24 (1995) 4522-4529. DOI

Fernández, Alberto J, Xianglei Mao, Wing-Tat Chan, Mark A. Shannon, and Richard E. Russo."Correlation of Spectral Emission Intensity in the Inductively-Coupled Plasma and Laser-Induced Plasma During Laser-Ablation of Solid Samples."Analytical Chemistry 67 (1995) 2444-2450.

Shannon, Mark A., and Richard E. Russo."Laser-Induced Stresses Versus Mechanical-Stress Power Measurements During Laser-Ablation of Solids."Applied Physics Letters 67 (1995) 3227-3229.

Mao, Xianglei, Mark A. Shannon, Alberto J Fernández, and Richard E. Russo."Temperature and emission spatial profile of laser-induced plasmas during ablation using time-integrated emission spectroscopy."Appl.Spectrosc. 49 (1995) 1054-1061.

1994

Qiu, Taiqing, Chang-Lin Tien, Mark A. Shannon, and Richard E. Russo."Thermal and mechanical response of gold films during nanosecond laser pulse heating."Experimental Heat Transfer: A Journal of Thermal Energy Generation, Transport, Storage, and Conversion 7.3 (1994) 175-188. DOI

Shannon, Mark A., Boris Rubinsky, and Richard E. Russo."Detecting laser induced phase change at the surface of solids via latent heat of melting with a photothermal deflection technique."Journal of Applied Physics 75.3 (1994) 1473-1485. DOI

1993

Mao, Xianglei, Wing-Tat Chan, Mark A. Shannon, and Richard E. Russo."Plasma Shielding During Picosecond Laser Sampling of Solid Materials by Ablation in He Versus Ar Atmosphere."Journal of Applied Physics 74.8 (1993) 4915-4922. DOI

1992

Shannon, Mark A., Ali A. Rostami, and Richard E. Russo."Photothermal deflection measurements for monitoring heat-transfer during modulated laser-heating of solids."J.Appl.Phys. 71 (1992) 53.