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Researchers in the Building Technology & Urban Systems Division (BTUS) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory develop data and technologies that increase energy efficiency and improve the health, safety and comfort of building occupants, in the United States and worldwide.

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1991

Ross, Jennifer T., Michael D. Rubin, and Ture K. Gustafson."Single Crystal Wurtzite GaN on (111) GaAs with AIN Buffer Layers Grown by Reactive Magnetron Sputter Deposition."Journal of Materials Research 8.10 (1991) 2613-2616.

Franconi, Ellen M., and Francis M. Rubinstein."Considering Lighting System Performance and HVAC Interactions in Lighting Retrofit Analysis."IEEE-IAS Annual Conference (1991).

Yin, E., Michael D. Rubin, and C. Bradford Hopper."On-Axis Shielded Sputtering of Y-Ba-Cu-O."Materials Letters 13.2-3 (1991) 89-92. DOI

Diamond, Richard C., Joseph A. McAllister, and Leo I. Rainer."Multifamily Energy Audit for HUD-Insured Multifamily Properties."Document prepared for the Office of Multifamily Housing, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (1991).

Griffith, Brent T., Dariush K. Arasteh, and Stephen E. Selkowitz."Gas-Filled Panel High-Performance Thermal Insulation."Insulation Materials: Testing and Applications 2 (1991).

Piette, Mary Ann, Joseph H Eto, and Jeffrey P. Harris."Office Equipment Energy Use and Trends." (1991).

Clear, Robert D., and Sam M. Berman."Polarization and glare on VDUs and Other Tilted Specular Surfaces."Illuminating Engineering Society Annual Conference 21(1) (1991) 29-40.

Rubinstein, Francis M., and Chin Zhang."A Spreadsheet for Analyzing the In-Situ Performance of Fluorescent Luminaries."Illuminating Engineering Society Annual Conference 1991 (1991).

Vaezi-Nejad, Hossein, E. Hutter, Philip Haves, Arthur L. Dexter, George E. Kelly, Pierre Nusgens, and Shengwei Wang."Use of Building Emulators to Evaluate the Performance of Building Energy Management Systems."Building Simulation '91 (1991) 209-213.

Rubinstein, Francis M., and Rudolph R. Verderber."Automatic Lighting Controls Demonstration: Long-term Results."PG&E Research and Development (1991).

Ma, Yan Ping, Phillip C. Yu, and Carl M Lampert."Development of Laminated Nickel/Manganese Oxide and Nickel/Niobium Oxide Electrochromic Devices."SPIE Proceedings 1536 (1991).

Koomey, Jonathan G., Celina S. Atkinson, Alan K. Meier, James E. McMahon, Stan Boghosian, Barbara A. Atkinson, Isaac Turiel, Mark D. Levine, Bruce Nordman, and Peter T. Chan."The Potential for Electricity Efficiency Improvements in the U.S. Residential Sector." (1991).

Papamichael, Konstantinos M., and Stephen E. Selkowitz."A Computer-Based Building Design Support Environment."1st International Symposium on Building Systems Automation-Integration (1991).

Yazdanian, Mehry, J. Randy Michelson, and Guy O. Kelley."A Complex Multitasked Data Acquisition and Control System for Measuring Window Thermal Efficiency, or How TSX+ Saved Our Project When It Outgrew RT-11."U.S. DECUS Spring 1991 Symposium, May 6-10, 1991 (1991).

Siminovitch, Michael J., Francis M. Rubinstein, and Michael Packer."Fixture Efficiency Program."Association of Energy Engineers Conference (1991).

Haves, Philip, and Arthur L. Dexter."Use of a Building Emulator to Evaluate Control Strategies Implemented in Commercial BEMS."Building Environmental Performance '91 (1991).

Arasteh, Dariush K., and Stephen E. Selkowitz."Energy Conservation Through Vacuum Coatings."Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) 34th Annual Technical Conference (1991).

Wruck, David A., M.A. Dixon, Michael D. Rubin, and Susan N. Bogy."As-Sputtered Electrochromic Films of Nickel Oxide."Journal of Vacuum Science Technology A 9.4 (1991) 2170-2173. DOI

Bauman, Fred S., David Faulkner, Edward A. Arens, William J. Fisk, Lucy P. Johnston, Pleasant J. McNeel, David Pih, and Hui Zhang."Air movement, comfort and ventilation in partitioned workstations."ASHRAE Transactions 98 Part 1 (1991) 756-780.

Wray, Craig P., and G.K. Yuill and Associates Ltd.."Building Materials as a Source of Radon: Computer Simulation of Indoor Radon Concentrations." (1991).

Wray, Craig P., and G.K. Yuill and Associates Ltd.."SMOKESIM: Computer-Aided Analysis of Smoke Control Systems: Multizone Airflow and Smoke Transport Simulation - Source Code Documentation."ASHRAE (1991).

Sherman, Max H., and Darryl J. Dickerhoff."ACT2 Project Report: Ventilation and Air Tightness Measurements of the Sunset Building."ventilation, air tightness (1991).

Ward, Gregory J.."Adaptive Shadow Testing for Ray Tracing."1991 European Rendering Workshop Conference (1991).

Furler, Reto A.."Angular Dependence of Optical Properties of Homogeneous Glasses."ASHRAE Transactions 98, Part 1 (1991).

Wray, Craig P.."Computer Simulation of the Transport of Soil Gas, Indoor Air, and Atmospheric Air into Subslab Venting Systems."Report to the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (1991).