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CONTENTS
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NEWS:
      +- ICT2005 Updates
Chairman's Letter to Attendees
Schedule
Travel Information and Directions
details at http://www.its.org

      +- CALL FOR PAPERS - ECT2005

      +- Correlated Thermoelectric Materials Conference 2005

      +- JIMO Delayed, Not Canceled

      +- XII General Session of the
International Academy of Refrigeration - 2005
by Lev Bulat

      +- Low Temperature Electron-Tunneling Refrigerators

      +- Thermoelectric Properties of Hornet Cuticles

UPCOMING EVENTS (see below):
+- Please note the format shift. The full list of upcoming events
will henceforth follow news articles, at the end of ZTspam.

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NEWS:
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      +- ICT2005 Updates
Chairman's Letter to Attendees
Schedule
Travel Information and Directions
details at http://www.its.org

The International Thermoelectric Society website has been updated with new ICT2005 information. The updates include:
- a letter from the ICT2005 Chairman to all attendees
http://www.its.org/ict2005/ICT05-Chairman-note.pdf (8 KB)

- the schedule with authors and titles of papers
http://www.its.org/ict2005/ICT05-Session_Schedules.pdf (208 KB)

- some travel information and directions.
http://www.its.org/ict2005/ICT05-Directs-info.pdf (28 KB)

Please see the ITS website (http://www.its.org) for details, but the Chairman's Letter to Attendees is included here:

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Letter from the Conference Chairman
May 6, 2005

Dear Attendees,

We are looking forward to your arrival in Clemson, SC for the 24th International Conference on Thermoelectrics on June 19 – 23, 2005. You will find that we have placed pdf files for directions and info on the website. We also have finally been able to post the schedule. We tried to get it up earlier but we had numerous last minute requests and changes that prevented it. Please look over the whole program. We have several of you designated as session chairman and need your help in this role. If you cannot fill your assigned time, please let us know ASAP.

We request that each of you who plans to attend go ahead and register on the website even if you are planning to pay at the conference. Be sure and select your shirt size and indicate which tour you wish to participate in. This will give us a better count as to the number of attendees. This way we can order the correct shirt sizes and better plan on how many items we need to purchase for the goody bags. It also helps us plan the food service for the meals and seating arrangements. We can also begin to print out the nametags and info. Please indicate if you will be purchasing a conference proceedings in book form (at additional cost to you) in addition to the CD you will receive.

Next week we hope to have information concerning the manuscript submission, copyrights and formatting posted on the website as well. We do request that each manuscript be turned in at the beginning of the conference (Sunday or Monday) so it can be reviewed at the conference. We require three hard copies and an electronic version in Word or pdf format. We hope to be able to make all the requested changes on site in order to facilitate the rapid publication of these proceedings.

The conference begins with a reception Sunday evening (June 19) and the technical sessions end Thursday, June 23 at 3 pm. We will provide tours of the thermoelectric materials labs at Clemson University beginning at 3:30 pm on Thursday until around 6 pm. We will have a cookout on Thursday night. On Friday we are planning a post-conference tour to the Biltmore House in Asheville, NC. (This will be at an additional charge). We look forward to seeing you in Clemson.

Terry M. Tritt

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      +- CALL FOR PAPERS - ECT2005

The 3rd European Conference on Thermoelectrics: ECT2005
September 1-2, 2005
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Nancy, Nancy, France     
http://www.lpm.u-nancy.fr/ect2005
Contact: ect2005-at-mines.inpl-nancy.fr

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CALL FOR PAPERS - ECT2005

3rd European Conference  on Thermoelectrics
September 1-2,  200 05 - Nancy, France

Dear Colleague,

The 3rd European Conference  on Thermoelectrics  will highlight
fundamentals of thermoelectricity, development of new thermoelectric
materials, devices processing and their forefront applications in
electrical generation and cooling, ranging from macro to nano scales.
Join us in Nancy to submit your research and to meet international
delegates.

You can find now any information concerning the conference on the
ECT2005 web site:
http://www.lpm.u-nancy.fr/ect2005

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Abstract submission deadline EXTENDED TO: May 13, 2005
Online registration is open. Deadline for reduced fees is June 15, 2005.
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Best regards.

Anne Dauscher, Bertrand Lenoir, for the organizing committee of the conference

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      +- Correlated Thermoelectric Materials Conference 2005

  Workshop on Correlated Thermolectric Materials
International Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter and
COST Action: Emergent Behaviour in Correlated Matter
September 25th - 30th 2005
Hvar, Croatia
Contact: hvar05-at-ifs.hr
http://leptir.ifs.hr/~hvar05

The European Thermoelectric Society would also like to call your attention to this conference. From the conference website:

"We are interested in the possibility of engineering the thermoelectric devices for low-temperature applications using the correlated electron systems close to the metal-insulator boundary. The thermoelectric workshop will focus on Kondo insulators, correlated semiconductors, skutterudites, and related heterostructures. It will review new materials and new mechanisms that could lead to thermoelectric devices with a useful figure-of-merit below 77 K."

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      +- JIMO Delayed, Not Canceled

The press has reported that NASA's Jupiter Icy Moon Orbiter (JIMO) mission, a major component of NASA's next-generation space nuclear power development effort called Project Prometheus, has been delayed but not canceled. A possible JIMO launch date has now slipped to 2017 while they examine options for earlier and shorter missions to the inner solar system, possibly an asteroid, the moon or Mars. Some more details are available at:

http://www.flatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050418/NEWS02/50418...

Thermoelectrics are not discussed in this press report, but remain one of the options for the energy conversion subsystem. Handicapped as we know by congenitally low efficiency, thermoelectrics have the advantage over alternatives in that their efficiency has a good chance of remaining above zero over the life of the mission. But I don't recommend looking back. If one of the alternatives passes thermoelectrics, that could be the ball game.

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      +- XII General Session of the
International Academy of Refrigeration - 2005
by Lev Bulat

 
The General Session of the International Academy of Refrigeration (IAR) was held in St. Petersburg, Russia on April 19 - 20, 2005. The program of the Session includes: the report of the IAR President, reports of the National and the Regional Departments, election of new corporative and individual members of the Academy.
 
The significant interest was caused with two lectures at the Scientific academically conference:
1. Academician Hubert SHERRER (France) “European Thermoelectric Society: R&D in TE area in Europe countries”.
2. Academician John STOCKHOLM (France) “Thermoelectric cooling systems: state and trends”.
 
There are experts in the area of thermoelectricity among again elected members of the Academy:
Honorary Members:
- Professor E. K. Iordanishvili (St. Petersburg State Polytechnic Institute, Russia)
- Professor D.M. Rowe (University of Wales, Cardiff, UK)

Active Member:
- Professor K. Koumoto (University of Nagoya, Japan)

Correspondent Member:
- Dr. L. Ershova (“RMT Ltd.”, Moscow, Russia).
 
Corporative Member:
- “RMT Ltd.”, Moscow, Russia
 
Dr. Lee, Hee-Woong from KERI (Korea) has taken part in the Session. He has the idea to organize ICT-2007 in Korea.
 

Lev BULAT
Professor, D.Sc.
Head of the Section for Alternative Methods of Refrigeration of IAR
Lomonosova St. 9, St. Petersburg, 191002, Russia
Tel/Fax: 7 (812) 315-2958. Tel: 7 (812) 164-7149.  Fax: 7 (812) 315-3778.
Email: LBulat-at-mail.ru

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      +- Low Temperature Electron-Tunneling Refrigerators

Clark et al. have reported a novel solid state cooler with significant efficiency at milliKelvin temperatures. Cooling occurs at a normal metal-insulator-superconducting (NIS) junction as electrons tunnel through the junction. They report a measured COP of 0.11 and theoretical maximum COP for their device of 0.16 operating between 320 and 225 mK. Those COPs correspond to 4.6% and 6.8% of the Carnot COP between those temperatures.

Just for comparison, a TE device would need a device ZT value of nearly 1.4 to achieve similar performance. It becomes natural to ask if NIS cooler can be built to operate at (say) liquid nitrogen temperatures. See the following reference for details.

Clark, A. M., N. A. Miller, et al. (2005). "Cooling of bulk material by electron-tunneling refrigerators." Applied Physics Letters 86(17): 173508.

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      +- Thermoelectric Properties of Hornet Cuticles

"Electrical, thermoelectric and thermophysical properties of hornet cuticle"
Galushko, D. (Raymond/Beverly Sackler Fac. E.S., School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University); Ermakov, N.; Karpovski, M.; Palevski, A.; Ishay, J.S.; Bergman, D.J. Source: Semiconductor Science and Technology, v 20, n 3, March, 2005, p 286-289

To quote from the above cited paper: "As far as we know, this is the first time anyone has
attempted to measure the parameters [sigma], [kappa] and S of fresh hornet cuticle (or any other cuticle, for that matter) in the direction perpendicular to the surface." No doubt. The authors estimate ZT=0.003 for their hornet cuticle, which apparently isn't enough to account for the cooling reported previously in wasps (in a PRL no less, see ZTspam 20030610). Stay tuned for further startling breakthroughs in the emerging field of cryo-vespidaeonics.

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UPCOMING EVENTS ( +-+- = New or Updated Information):
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    +- Space Nuclear Conference 2005 (SNC '05)
          June 5-9, 2005
          San Diego, CA  USA
          Contact: Larry Foulke, space-at-ans.org
          http://www3.inspi.ufl.edu/space

      +- Next-Generation Thermal Management Materials and Systems
          June 15-17, 2005
          Tempe,Arizona
          Contact: Matt Mecray, Conference Director, RTI International
          Tel: 207.829.6084, Fax: 207.829.4024, E-mail: mmecray-at-rti.org
          http://techventure.rti.org/

  +- ICT2005
          The 24th International Conference on Thermoelectrics
          June 19-23, 2005
          Clemson University, Clemson SC  USA
          http://www.its.org/ict2005
          Contact: ict2005-at-its.org

+- HCIS-14
14th International Conference on Nonequilibrium
Carrier Dynamics in Semiconductors
July 24-29, 2005
Chicago, Illinois
Contact: Prof. Heiner Linke, linke-at-uoregon.edu
http://hcis14.beckman.uiuc.edu/

    +- IECEC
          3rd International Energy Conversion Engineering Conference.
          15-18 August 2005
          Hyatt Regency San Francisco, USA.
         Thermoelectric Session Chair:
              John G.Stockholm <john.stockholm-at-wanadoo.fr>
          For general questions about IECEC, see their website:
          http://www.iecec.org

      +- ECT2005
          3rd European Conference on Thermoelectrics
          September 1-2, 2005 (registration starts on August 31)
          Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Nancy, Nancy, France 
          http://www.lpm.u-nancy.fr/ect2005 (the site will be open middle of February)
          Contact: ect2005-at-mines.inpl-nancy.fr
  +-+-  Abstract Deadline Extended:  May 13, 2005
  +-+-  Online Registration with reduced fees through::  June 15, 2005

    +- Int. Conf. on Perovskites - Properties and Potential Applications
September 5-7, 2005
Empa, Duebendorf, Switzerland
Contact: Anke Weidenkaff, Anke.Weidenkaff-at-empa.ch
http://www.empa.ch/perovskite

      +- PacRim6
          6th Pacific Rim Conference on Ceramic and Glass Technology
          September 11-16, 2005
          Maui, Hawaii  USA
          Contact: Terry Tritt, ttritt-at-clemson.edu
          http://www.ceramics.org/meetings/pacrim6/technicalprog.asp#016

  +-+-  Workshop on Correlated Thermoelectric Materials
International Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter and
COST Action: Emergent Behaviour in Correlated Matter
September 25th - 30th 2005
Hvar, Croatia
Contact: hvar05-at-ifs.hr
http://leptir.ifs.hr/~hvar05

+- First Satellite Symposium on Thermoelectrics
           Fourth China International Conference on High-Performance Ceramics
           October 23-26, 2005
           Chengdu, Sichuan Province, CHINA
           Contact: Prof. Li-Dong Chen, cld-at-mail.sic.ac.cn
http://www.ccs-cicc.com/

  +- MRS 2005 Fall Meeting
Symposium F: Materials and Technologies for Direct
Thermal-to-Electric Energy Conversion
November 28-December 2, 2005
Contact: Jihui Yang, jihui.yang-at-gm.com
http://www.mrs.org/meetings/fall2005/

  +-+-  ECT2006
4th European Thermoelectric Conference
April 10-11, 2006
Cardiff, Wales UK
Contact: hyettpa-at-Cardiff.ac.uk
Further Details TBD

      +- ICT2006
           The 25th International Conference on Thermoelectrics
           July-August 2006   (precise dates TBD)
           Wien, Austria
           Contact: Prof. Peter Rogl
           peter.franz.rogl-at-univie.ac.at
           http://www.its.org
          [Further details as they become available.]

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