Research Papers

Fraunhofer USA CMI aims to be actively involved in the scientific dialog within the engineering and science community. Our engineers and scientists regularly publish fundamental and application-specific technical papers in consultation with our customers and research collaborators. The foundations for many new developments in the field of biomedical engineering and custom automation systems have been laid at Fraunhofer USA CMI and have been documented in relevant technical papers.

Zeifman, Roth, Brady-Traczyk, Abreu (2020).

Gas Demand Response -To Scale or Not to Scale, that is the Question: Findings from a C&I Pilot. In: ACEEE - Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings 2020. : ACEEE.

A pilot study to evaluate the feasibility of a gas demand response program to reduce gas consumption during peak...

Zeifman, Lazrak, Roth (2020).

When Two Isn’t Better Than One: Algorithms to Remotely Identify Insulation and Air Sealing Retrofit Opportunities in Homes with Two Communicating Thermostats. In: ACEEE - Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings 2020. : ACEEE.

Developing effective algorithms to analyze interval data from two communicating thermostats to provide greater insight...

Kromer, Roth (2020).

Seeing the Future: Evaluation of Time-Series Load-Prediction Methodologies for Optimal Energy Storage Dispatch in Solar-Dominant Distribution Grids. In: ACEEE - Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings 2020. : ACEEE.

A study on battery energy storage on solar-dominant distribution grids including site-specific and site-agnostic...

Urban (2020).

Beware the Fans: Lessons from a Compressor Controls Evaluation. In: ACEEE - Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings 2020. : ACEEE.

Vapor-compression cooling systems, specifically temperature-feedback compressor cycling controllers, tested with new...

Zeifman, M., Lazrak, A., Roth, K. (2019).

Residential retrofits at scale: opportunity identification, saving estimation, and personalized messaging based on communicating thermostat data. In: Energy Efficiency. : Springer , pp. 1-13.

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Abreu, J., Wingartz, N., Hardy, N. (2019).

New trends in solar: A comparative study assessing attitudes towards the adoption of rooftop solar. In: Energy Policy. 128: Elsevier, pp. 347-363.

The factors affecting the adoption of conventional solar PV have been broadly addressed in the recent literature....

Urban, B. (2018).

Validating the COOLNOMIX AC and refrigeration compressor control retrofit. Final Report. ESTCP Project EW-201513. Alexandria: Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) and Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP).

Fraunhofer USA Report to the U.S. DoD Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP).

Fuchs, H., Shehabi, A., Ganeshalingam, M., Desroches, L.B., Lim, B., Roth, K., et al. (2018).

Characteristics and Energy Use of Volume Servers in the U.S. In: 2018 ACEEE Summer Study Proceedings. Washington D.C.: ACEEE, 3-1 to 3-12.

As data centers proliferate t o meet the demand of Internet-of-T hings services, their energy intensity deserves clo se...

Abreu, J., Voge, J., Roth, K. (2018).

Customer centric recommendations for the design of residential direct load control (DLC) demand response (DR) utility Programs. In: 2018 ACEEE Summer Study Proceedings. Washington D.C.: ACEEE, 8-1 to 8-15.

Outdoor temperature drives the peak demand of summer-peaking electric utilities and their grid infrastructure.

Abreu, J., McIlvennie, C., Wingartz, N., Mammoli, A. (2018).

What Would You Do To Keep The Lights On In Your Community? In: 2018 ACEEE Summer Study Proceedings. Washington D.C.: ACEEE, 11-1 to 11-15.

Previous studies have conclude d that residential demand respons e (DR) coupled with IT integration can improve the...

Zeifman, M., Lazrak, A., Roth, K. (2018).

Residential retrofits at scale: opportunity identification, saving estimation and personalized messaging based on communicating thermostat data. In: 2018 ACEEE Summer Study Proceedings. Washington D.C.: ACEEE, 12-1 to 12-13.

Annual energy savings of up to $4- 5 billion could be achieved n ationwide through basic insulation and heating system...

Fontanini, A., Abreu, J. (2018).

A Data-Driven BIRCH Clustering Method for Extracting Typical Load Profiles for Big Data. In: IEEE Power & Energy General Meeting. Portland: IEEE PES.

In typical load shape analysis, many different clustering methods have been used to segment customers, interpret...

Ashouria, M., Haghighata, F., Fung, B., Lazrak, A., Yoshinod, H. (2018).

Development of Building Energy Saving Advisory: A Data Mining Approach. In: Energy and Buildings. 172: Elsevier, pp. 139-151.

Wang, Z., Rahnamay-Naeini, M., Abreu, J., Shuvro, R., Das, P., Mammoli, A., et al. (2018).

Impacts of Operators' Behavior on Reliability of Power Grids during Cascading Failures. : IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.

(Paper accepted) Human operators play a key role in the reliable operation of critical infrastructures. However, human...

Kalashnikov, M., Lee, J.C., Sauer-Budge, A.F. (2018).

Optimization of Stress-Based Microfluidic Testing for Methicillin Resistance in Staphylococcus aureus Strains. In: Diagnostics. 8(2): MDPI, p. 24.

The rapid evolution of antibiotic resistance in bacterial pathogens is driving the development of innovative, rapid...

Lazrak, A., Fourmigue, J., Robin, J. (2018).

An innovative practical battery thermal management system based on phase change materials: Numerical and experimental investigations. In: Applied Thermal Engineering. 128: Elsevier, pp. 20-32.

Urban, B., Roth, K., Singh, M., Howes, D. (2017).

Energy Consumption of Consumer Electronics in U.S. Homes in 2017. Boston: Consumer Technology Association (CTA).

Fraunhofer CSE was contracted for a third time in seven years by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) to conduct a...

Zeifman, M. (2017).

United States Patent: Methods and system for nonintrusive load monitoring. : United States Patent Office.

Identification and tracking of major electric appliances by using aggregate power data obtained at the main breaker...

Sauer-Budge, A.F., Brookfield, S.J., Janzen, R., McGray, S., Boardman, A., Wirz, H., et al. (2017).

A novel device for collecting and dispensing fingerstick blood for point of care testing. In: PLoS ONE. 12(8): PLoS.

Quantitative blood delivery directly from a fingerstick for hyperlocal healthcare

Kalashnikov, M., Mueller, M., McBeth, C., Lee, J.C., Campbell, J., Sharon, A., et al. (2017).

Rapid phenotypic stress-based microfluidic antibiotic susceptibility testing of Gram-negative clinical isolates . In: Scientific Reports. 7(1): NCBI, p. 8031.

Bacteremia is a life-threatening condition for which antibiotics must be prescribed within hours of clinical diagnosis....

Kalashnikov, M., Mueller, M., McBeth, C., Lee, J.C., Campbell, J., Sharon, A., et al. (2017).

Rapid phenotypic stress-based microfluidic antibiotic susceptibility testing of Gram-negative clinical isolates. In: Scientific Reports. 7(7): Scientific Reports.

By applying environmental stress to bacteria in a microfluidic platform, we can correctly assign antibiotic...

Campbell, J., McBeth, C., Kalashnikov, M., Boardman, A., Sharon, A., Sauer-Budge, A.F. (2017).

Microfluidic advances in phenotypic antibiotic susceptibility testing. In: Biomedic Microdevices. 18(6): NCBI, p. 103.

A strong natural selection for microbial antibiotic resistance has resulted from the extensive use and misuse of...

Urban, B., Roth, R. (2017).

Demonstrating a Net-Zero Solar Energy Elevator in a Boston Office Building. Boston: thyssenkrupp AG, pp. 1-23.

Urban, B., Roth, K. (2017).

LCD Television Power Draw Trends from 2003 to 2015. Boston: CTAtech.com.

Televisions in U.S. homes consumed about 50 billion kWh per year in 2013, or about 4% of the total U.S. residential...

Zeifman, M., Kromer, M., Roth, K. (2017).

Integrated System to Enable High-Penetration Feeder-Level PV: Preliminary Design and Simulation Results. In: IEEE ISGT 2017. Washington: IEEE.

Wang, N., Roth, K., Phelan, P., Gonzalez, J., Harris, C., Henze, G., et al. (2017).

Ten questions concerning future buildings beyond zero energy and carbon neutrality. In: Building and Environment. 119: Elsevier Ltd., 169-182.

Teng, F., Cormier, T., Sauer-Budge, A.F., Chaudhury, R., Pera, V., Istfan, R., et al. (2017).

Wearable near-infrared optical probe for continuous monitoring during breast cancer neoadjuvant chemotherapy infusions. In: Journal of Biomedical Optics. 22(1): SPIE.Digital Library, p. 014001.

We present a new continuous-wave wearable diffuse optical probe aimed at investigating the hemodynamic response of...

McBeth, C., Lauer, J., Ottersbach, M., Campbell, J., Sharon, A., Sauer-Budge, A.F. (2017).

3D bioprinting of GelMA scaffolds triggers mineral deposition by primary human osteoblasts. In: Biofabrication. 9(1), Bethesda: NCBI, p. 015009.

Due to its relatively low level of antigenicity and high durability, titanium has successfully been used as the major...

Zeifman, M., Roth, K., Urban, B. (2017).

Communicating Thermostats as a Tool for Home Energy Performance Assessment. In: Proceedings of 35th IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics. Las Vegas: IEEE, pp. 191-192.

Roth, K., Kromer, M. (2016).

SunDial: An Integrated SHINES System Enabling High Penetration Feeder-Level PV. In: ACEEE Intelligent Energy Conference. Austin: ACEEE, pp. 1-33.

Abreu, J. (2016).

Encouraging Sustainable Practices Beyond Here and Now: The Case of Programmable Thermostats for Low Income Tenants. In: Behavior, Energy & Climate Change (BECC) . Baltimore.

Abreu, J., Simoes, J. (2016).

On Demand: Evaluation of a Behavioral Automated Demand Response Field Experiment. In: 4th European Conference on Behavior and Energy Efficiency. Portugal: Proceedings of Behave 2016 Coimbra, pp. 1-4.

Abreu, J. , Roth, K. (2016).

Evaluation of Behavioral Strategies for Effective Use of Programmable Thermostats in Multifamily Affordable Housing, Draft Final Report - Prepared for NYSERDA. Boston.

This paper describes a field experiment to test two behavioral interventions designed to increase the effective use of...

Zeifman, M., Roth, K. (2016).

Residential Remote Audits: Estimation of Building Thermal Parameters Using Interval Energy Consumption Data. In: Proceedings of ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings Pacific Grove: ACEEE, pp. 12.1-12.12.

Boardman, A., Wong, W.S., Premasiri, W.R., Ziegler, L.D., Lee, J.C., Miljkovic, M., et al. (2016).

Rapid Detection of Bacteria from Blood with Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy. In: Analytical Chemistry. 88(16), 8026-35.

Traditional methods for identifying pathogens in bacteremic patients are slow (24-48+ h). This can lead to physicians...

Kromer, M., Hoepfner, C., Ashmore, J. (2016).

Reducing the Cost of Residential-Scale PV Through 'Plug & Play PV' Systems and Standardized Electronic Workflows. In: 2016 IEEE 43rd Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC). Portland: IEEE, pp. 3481-3486.

Honeker, C., Fuller, E., Booth, D., Flaherty, B., Mao, E. (2016).

Reducing Installed Costs of Residential Solar by the Use of Adhesive Mounted Lightweight Solar Modules. In: Proceedings of the 43rd IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference Portland: IEEE, pp. 3135-3140.

Premasiri, Ranjith, Lee, J.C., Sauer-Budge, A.F., Theberge, R., Costello, C.E., Ziegler, L.D. (2016).

The biochemical origins of the surface-enhanced Raman spectra of bacteria: a metabolomics profiling by SERS.. In: Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. 408(17), 4631-47.

The dominant molecular species contributing to the surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) spectra of bacteria...

Fern ndez-Carballo, B.L., McGuinness, I., McBeth, C., Kalashnikov, M., Borr¢s, S., Sharon, A., et al. (2016).

Low-cost, real-time, continuous flow PCR system for pathogen detection. In: Biomed Microdevices. 18(2), 34.

In this paper, we present a portable and low cost point-of-care (POC) PCR system for quantitative detection of...

Keenan, M., Howard, C., Tate, T., McGuiness, I., Sauer-Budge, A.F., Black, J., et al. (2016).

Design of an everting balloon to deploy a microendoscope to the fallopian tubes. In: Proceedings of SPIE. 9689(968944).

To improve the ease-of-use and safety of falloposcope deployment, we are working to create an everting balloon....

Teng, F., Cormier, T., Sauer-Budge, A.F., Roblyer, D.M. (2016).

A wearable optical device for continuous monitoring during neoadjuvant chemotherapy infusions. In: Proceedings of SPIE. 9715(97150).

We present a new continuous-wave (CW) wearable diffuse optical device aimed at investigating the hemodynamic response...

Urban, B., Roth, K., Harbor, C. (2016).

Energy Savings from Five Home Automation Technologies: A Scoping Study of Technical Potential. Final Report by the Fraunhofer USA Center for Sustainable Energy Systems (CSE) to the Consumer Technology Association. Boston: Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systems CSE.

Lazrak, A., Boudehenn, F., Bonnot, S., Fraisse, G., Leconte, A., Papillon, P., et al. (2016).

Development of a dynamic artificial neural network model of an absorption chiller and its experimental validation. In: Renewable Energy. 86, pp. 1009-1022.

Kromer, M., Hoepfner, C., Ashmore, J. (2016).

Plug & Play PV Standards Portfolio, Revision 1. .

Kromer, M., Choudhary, S., Wittwer, C., Braam, F., Kohrs, R. (2016).

Enabling High Penetration PV through Tightly Integrated Behind-the-Meter PV/Storage Systems: Emerging Trends from Germany. In: IEEE Smart Grid [Newsletter]. .

Rivera-Poventud, J., Carroll III, A., Faries, W., Yip, T., Anderson, M., Brannen, N. (2016).

Intelligent Independent Battery Management System and Method. In: Google Patent: US 9467000 B2. .

Campbell, J., McGuinness, I., Wirz, H., Sharon, A., Sauer-Budge, A.F. (2015).

Multi-material and Multi-scale Three-dimensional Bioprinter. In: J. Nanotechnol. Eng. Med.. 6(2), 21005.

Our bioprinter has three components uniquely combined into a comprehensive tool: syringe pumps connected to a selector...

Urban, B., Shmakova, V., Lim, B., Roth, K. (2015).

Residential Consumer Electronics Energy Consumption in the United States. In: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Energy Efficiency in Domestic Appliances and Lighting Lucerne: JRC-IET, pp. 648-656.

Campbell, J., Pollock, R., Sharon, A., Sauer-Budge, A.F. (2015).

Development of an automated on-chip bead-based ELISA platform. In: Analytical Methods. 7(8472.7).

We present a lab-on-a-chip and associated instrument for heterogeneous enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA)-based...

Boardman, A.K., Campbell, J., Wirz, H., Sharon, A., Sauer-Budge, A.F. (2015).

Rapid Microbial Sample Preparation from Blood Using a Novel Concentration Device. In: PLoS ONE. 10(2), e0116837.

Here, we report a novel, scaled-up sample preparation protocol carried out in a new microbial concentration device. The...

Zeifman, M., Akers, C. (2015).

Nonintrusive Monitoring of Miscellaneous and Electronic Loads. In: 2015 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE). Las Vegas: IEEE, pp. 305-308.

Zeifman, M. (2015).

Measurement and Verification of Energy Saving in Smart Building Technologies. In: Proceedings of IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP). Orlando: IEEE, pp. 343-347.

Abreu, J., Hardy, N., Pereira, F., Zeifman, M. (2015).

Modeling Human Reliability in the Power Grid Environment: an Application of the SPAR-H Methodology. In: Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting. , pp. 1-5.

Harbor, D., Roth, K., Zeifman, M., Shmakova, V. (2015).

The Energy and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Impacts of Telecommuting and e-Commerce. Final Report by the Fraunhofer USA Center for Sustainable Energy Systems (CSE) to the Consumer Electronics Association. : Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systems CSE, pp. 1-81.

Lazrak, A., Leconte, A., Cheze, A., Fraisse, G., Papillon, P., Souyri, B. (2015).

Numerical and experimental results of a novel and generic methodology for energy performance evaluation of thermal systems using renewable energies. In: Applied Energy. 158(15), pp. 142-156.

Kromer, M., Hoepfner, C., Ashmore, J. (2015).

Making Plug & Play PV Systems a Reality: A framework for driving down the cost of residential solar installations in the United States. In: White Paper sponsored by DOE. .

Zeifman, M. (2014).

I Know What You Did Last Summer: Smart Meter Data Accurately Predict Household Intention to Enroll in Energy Efficiency Program. In: Behavior, Energy & Climate Change (BECC) . Washington: IEEE, pp. 1-17.

Abreu, J., Lehman, K., Terpstra, N., Roth, K. (2014).

Measuring the effect of the Plug&Play system in the intention of American homeowners to purchase rooftop PV in the next few years. An application of the Theory of Planned behavior. Cambridge.

Plug&Play PV system is a cutting-edge technology that relies on lighter, adhesive solar modules, and a streamlined...

Zeifman, M. (2014).

Smart meter data analytics: Prediction of enrollment in residential energy efficiency programs. In: 2014 International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC). San Diego: IEEE, pp. 413-416.

Boardman, A.K., Allison, S., Sharon, A., Sauer-Budge, A.F. (2014).

Comparison of anti-fouling surface coatings for applications in bacteremia diagnostics. In: Analytical Methods. 5(1), 273-80.

We sought to minimize the adhesion of methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) to the surface of...

Rosen, J.E., Size, A., Yang, Y., Sharon, A., Sauer-Budge, A.F. (2015).

Artificial hand for minimally invasive surgery: design and testing of initial prototype. In: Surg Endosc. 2015(29), 61-7.

we designed, fabricated, and tested the first prototype of a laparoscopic tool that provides the dexterity of a hand....

Urban, B., Shukla, N., Fontanini, A., Kosny, J. (2014).

An Outdoor Hut Testing Platform for Evaluating Advanced Building Enclosures. In: NSB Lund: NSB, pp. 135-143.

Briggs, J.C., A'amar, Bigio, I.J., Rosen, J., Lee, S.T., Sharon, A., et al. (2014).

Integrated Device for in vivo Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsy and Elastic Scattering Spectroscopy in Pre-Operative Thyroid Nodules. In: Journal of Medical Devices. 2014(6), 21003.

The goal of the current research was to integrate the ESS fiber optic probes into a device that can also collect cells...

Abreu, J. , Roth, K., Feldman, J. (2014).

Assessing the Impact of Goal Setting and Personalized Feedback on Energy Saving Behaviors, St. Polycarp Village. Cambridge.

St. Polycarp Village is an affordable housing residency in Somerville, MA. The buildings are high efficiency, with LEED...

Zeifman, M. (2014).

Tutorial: Nonintrusive Appliance Load Monitoring - Opportunities and Challenges. In: 32nd 2014 International Conference on Consumer Electronics. Las Vegas: IEEE.

Kalashnikov, M., Campbell, J., Lee, J.C., Sharon, A., Sauer-Budge, A.F. (2014).

Stress-induced Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing on a Chip. In: J Vis Exp. 2014(83).

We have developed a rapid microfluidic method for antibiotic susceptibility testing in a stress-based environment....

Lim, B., Roth, K., Nambiar, S., Rayakota, H. (2014).

Rapid Prototyping of Energy Management Applications with FRESH. In: Proceedings of the ACEEE 2014 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings. Washington: ACEEE, pp. 209-221.

Roth, K., Urban, B., Shmakova, V., Lim, B. (2014).

Residential Consumer Electronics Energy Consumption in 2013. In: Proceedings of the ACEEE 2014 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings. Washington: ACEEE, pp. 308-320.

Urban, B., Roth, K. (2014).

A Data-Driven Framework for Comparing Residential Thermostat Energy Performance. Boston: Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systems CSE.

Urban, B., Shmakova, V., Lim, B., Roth, K. (2014).

Energy Consumption of Consumer Electronics in U.S. Homes in 2013. Final Report to the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA). Boston: Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systems CSE.

Abreu, J. , Roth, K., Feldman, J. (2013).

Understanding the Impact of User Effort on Electricity Feedback and Energy Savings, Harvard Botanical Gardens Study. Cambridge.

Residential energy consumption accounts for 22% of the United States' total energy demand (Ehrhardt-Martinez, et al.,...

Urban, B., Elliott, D., Shukla, N., Fallahi, A., Kosny, J., McDonough, M. (2013).

Thermal Mass Effect of Solid Block Aerated Autoclaved Concrete. In: 2nd Central European Symposium on Building Physics. Vienna: CESBP, pp. 1-37.

Byrnes, S., Fan, A., Trueb, J., Jareczek, F., Mazzochette, M., Sharon, A., et al. (2013).

A Portable, Pressure Driven, Room Temperature Nucleic Acid Extraction and Storage System for Point of Care Molecular Diagnostics. In: Analytical methods : advancing methods and applications. 5(13), 3177-84.

Here, we present a portable system for centrifuge-free room temperature nucleic acid extraction from small volumes of...

Sauer-Budge, A.F., Boardman, A.K., Allison, S., Wirz, H., Foss, D., Sharon, A. (2013).

Materials and surface properties optimization to prevent biofouling of a novel bacterial concentrator. In: Procedia CIRP. 2013(5), 185-8.

To enable the efficient capture of so few bacteria in a sea of billions of blood cells, the material properties of the...

Muehlhaus, J., Heim, S., Sachs, O., Schneider, F., Habel, U., Sass, K. (2013).

Is the Motor or the Garage More Important to the Car? The Difference Between Semantic Associations in Single Word and Sentence Production. In: Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. 42(1), pp. 37-49.

Engelmann, P., Roth, K., Tiefenbeck, V. (2013).

Comfort, Indoor Air Quality, and Energy Consumption in Low Energy Homes. Golden: DOE BTO, pp. 1-46.

Tiefenbeck, V., Staake, T., Roth, K., Sachs, O. (2013).

For Better or for Worse? Empirical Evidence of Moral Licensing in a Behavioral Energy Conservation Campaign. In: Energy Policy. 53, pp. 160-171.

Urban, B., Gomez, C. (2013).

A Case for Thermostat User Models. In: 13th Conference of International Building Performance Simulation Association. Chambery, pp. 1483-1490.

Zeifman, M., Roth, K., Stefan, J. (2013).

Automatic Recognition of Major End-Uses in Disaggregation of Home Energy Display Data. In: 2013 International Conference on Consumer Electronics. Las Vegas, pp. 104-105.

Wirz, H., Sauer-Budge, A.F., Briggs, J.C., Sharpe, A., Shu, S., Sharon, A. (2012).

Automated production of plant-based vaccines and pharmaceuticals. In: Journal of Laboratory Automation. 17(6), 449-57.

A fully automated factory was developed that uses tobacco plants to produce large quantities of vaccines and other...

Kalashnikov, M., Lee, J.C., Campbell, J., Sharon, A., Sauer-Budge, A.F. (2012).

A microfluidic platform for rapid, stress-induced antibiotic susceptibility testing of Staphylococcus aureus. In: Lab Chip. 12(21), 4523-32.

In this paper, we present a novel microfluidic platform for antibiotic susceptibility testing based on...

Casey, L., Levi, M., Nichols, S., Kromer, M., Mossoba, M., Huang, J., et al. (2012).

Grid Integration of Electronic Devices & Systems at Medium Voltage. In: 2012 IEEE International Conference on Power System Technology - (POWERCON 2012). Auckland: IEEE, pp. 1-6.

Urban, B., Tiefenbeck, V., Roth, K. (2012).

Televisions, Computers, and Set-top Boxes: The Big Three of 2010 Home Consumer Electronics Energy Consumption. In: 2012 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings. Pacific Grove: ACEEE, pp. 9.301-9.316.

LaMarche, J., Cheney, K., Roth, K., Sachs, O. (2012).

Home Energy Management Products & Trends. In: ACEEE Summer Study. Asilomar: ACEEE, pp. 1-11.

Urban, B., Elliot, D., Sachs, O. (2012).

Towards Better Modeling of Residential Thermostats. In: SimBuild Conference IBPSA-USA. Madison: IBPSA, pp. 1-7.

Mossoba, J., Kromer, M., Faill, P., Katz, S., Borowy, P., Nichols, S., et al. (2012).

Analysis of Solar Irradiance Intermittency Mitigation Using Constant DC Voltage PV and EV Battery Storage. In: Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo (ITEC). Dearborn: IEEE, pp. 1-6.

Premasiri, W.R., Sauer-Budge, A.F., Lee, J.C., Klapperich, C.M., Ziegler, L.D. (2012).

Rapid bacterial diagnostics via surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. In: Spectroscopy Solutions for Materials Analysis. 2012(6), 40-49.

Efforts to develop a surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) based approach, which encompasses sample preparation,...

Campbell, J., Mirsky, P., Chatterjee, A., Sharon, A., Sauer-Budge, A.F. (2012).

A semi-automated liquid handler for parallel sample preparation. In: Biotech International. 2012(5), 23-5.

Goldstein, L.E., Fisher, A.M., Tagge, C.A., Zhang, X., Velisek, L., Sullivan, J.A., et al. (2012).

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy in blast-exposed military veterans and a blast neurotrauma mouse model. In: Science Translational Medicine. 2012(4), 134ra60.

We developed a blast neurotrauma mouse model that recapitulated CTE-linked neuropathology in wild-type C57BL/6 mice 2...

Zeifman, M. (2012).

An Approximate Probabilistic Approach for Event-Based Disaggregation. In: 1st International Workshop on Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring. Pittsburgh.

Mirsky, P., Chatterjee, A., Sauer-Budge, A.F., Sharon, A. (2012).

An automated, parallel processing approach to biomolecular sample preparation. In: Journal of Laboratory Automation. 17(2), 116-124.

A novel, parallel processing device that performs the three separate liquid-handling functions necessary for such...

LaMarche, J., Cheney, K., Akers, C., Roth, K., Sachs, O. (2012).

Home Energy Displays: Consumer Adoption and Response. Springfield, pp. 1-45.

Sachs, O., Tiefenbeck, V., Duvier, C., Quin, A., Cheney, C., Akers, C., et al. (2012).

Field Evaluation of Programmable Thermostats. Boston: DOE, pp. 1-59.

Zeifman, M. (2012).

Disaggregation of Home Energy Display Data Using Probabilistic Approach. In: IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics. 58(1), Las Vegas: IEEE, pp. 23-31.

Abreu, J., Pereira, F.C., Ferrao, P. (2012).

Using Pattern Recognition to Identify Habitual Behavior in Residential Electricity Consumption. In: Energy and Buildings. 49: Elsevier, pp. 479-487.

Abreu, J., Pereira, F.C., J. (2012).

Discovering Electricity Usage Routines in Households to Enable Tailored Feedback. In: American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy Buildings Summer Study. Pacific Grove, pp. 7.1-7.9.

Sass, K., Habel, U., Sachs, O., Huber, W., Gauggel, S., Kircher, T. (2012).

The influence of emotional associations on the neural correlates of semantic priming. In: Human Brain Mapping. 33(3), pp. 676-694.

LaMarche, J. (2011).

The Influence of Display Medium and Design on Energy-Saving Technology Adoption. In: Behavior, Energy & Climate Change Conference 2011. Washington.

Tiefenbeck, V. (2011).

Side Effects of Household Water Consumption Feedback on Electricity Consumption. In: Behavior, Energy & Climate Change Conference 2011. Washington.

Sachs, O. (2011).

How to Make Psychology and Technology Work For You: Features of Feedback That Support Behavior Change. In: Consortium for Energy Efficiency Industry Partners Meeting. Washington.

Gruentzig, A.W., Klapperich, C.M., Sharon, A., Braman, J., Chatterjee, A., Sauer-Budge, A.F. (2011).

A new DNA extraction method for automated food analysis. In: Analytical Methods. 3(7), 1507-1513.

Abreu, J., Azevedo, I., Pereira, F. (2011).

A contribution to better understand the demand for electricity in the residential sector. In: European Council for Energy Efficient Economies (ECEEE) Summer Study 2011. : ECEEE.

Zeifman, M., Roth, K. (2011).

Viterbi Algorithm with Sparse Transitions (VAST) for Nonintrusive Load Monitoring. In: IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence Applications in Smart Grid (CIASG). Paris: IEEE, pp. 1-8.

Sauer-Budge, A.F., Sharon, A. (2011).

Editorial for the Special Issue of RCIM on Translational Research - Where Engineering Meets Medicine. In: Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing. 27(2), 235-236.

Zeifman, M., Roth, K. (2011).

Nonintrusive appliance load monitoring: Review and outlook. In: IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics 57(1), Las Vegas: IEEE, pp. 76-84.

Urban, B., Roth, K., Tiefenbeck, V., Urban, B., Roth, K. (2011).

Energy Consumption of Consumer Electronics in US Homes in 2010. Boston: Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systems CSE, pp. 1-142.

Engelmann, P., Urban, B., Kosny, J. (2011).

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