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+ Cronin B. Vining, Listmaster
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NEWS:
+- ICT2006 Manuscripts Due July 15, 2006
Details: http://www.its.org/ict2006
and/or http://www.univie.ac.at/ICT06/
+- 4th IECEC Held in San Diego June 26-29, 2006
+- Mini fridge exploits brownian motion
UPCOMING EVENTS: (+-+- = New Info. See full list below.)
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NEWS:
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+- ICT2006 Manuscripts Due July 15, 2006
Details: http://www.its.org/ict2006
and/or http://www.univie.ac.at/ICT06/
ICT2006 authors should note that full camera-ready manuscripts are due July
15, 2006. This is the first time an ICT has requested manuscripts prior to
the conference, but the practise is not unusual in many conferences. Also
note that manuscript preparation instructions, a schedule, preliminary
program, list of registered participants and other details are available on
the website above.
The following circular (included here in case anyone missed it) was also
recently sent out to participants by the Conference Chair:
From: Peter Rogl
Subject: ICT06 3 circular(5)
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 10:54:09 +0200
To: ICT2006 Participant
Dear Participants,
1) This is a reminder that the DEADLINE FOR MANUSCRIPTS is approaching
fast.
Please turn in your manuscript in camera ready form (and the copyright
form)
NOT LATER THAN JULY 15th. Please use the template and instructions as given
in the website!.
2) Oral presentations will be in the general case 20 min including 5 min
for
discussion. There will be laptops and beamers available for POWER POINT
PRESENTATIONS. HOWEVER, THERE WILL BE NO OBVERHEAD FACILITIES! (At the last
5 conferences I attended nobody used overheads anymore). Thus please take
your oral presentation on a CD-rom or memorystick. You certainly are
welcome
to present from your private laptop in case you will take it to the
conference.
3) Posters will be mounted on magnetic wallpaper: The maximum size will be
A0 (841 mm wide and 1189 mm high). DO NOT USE SIZES EXCEEDING the A0-space
in any form - you will have severe difficulties to mount them properly!
4)The final programme with timetable will be posted in the website by end
of
next week
We are looking forward in seeing you in Vienna
The organizing Committee of ICT06
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+- 4th IECEC Held in San Diego June 26-29, 2006
http://www.aiaa.org/content.cfm?pageid=230&lumeetingid=1309
The 4th International Energy Conversion Engineering Conference was held
June 26-29 in San Dieago, CA USA. The IECEC has long been a popular
venue for presentations related to US Space Power. A number of titles with
thermoelectric content were included in the agenda this year (some of which
are listed below), although we have had word that one
thermoelectric-related session may have been canceled.
Thermoelectric related titles from the 4th IECEC Agenda:
AIAA-2006-4029
The Pluto- New Horizons RTG and Power System Early Mission Performance
G. Ottman and C. Hersman, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics
Laboratory, Laurel, MD
AIAA-2006-4030
Vibration Testing of the Pluto/New Horizons Radioisotope Thermoelectric
Generator
C. Griffin, Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID
AIAA-2006-4031
Preparation of RTG F8 for the Pluto New Horizons Mission
R. Cockfield, Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, King of Prussia, PA
AIAA-2006-4192
Assembly and Testing of a Radioisotope Power System for the New Horizons
AIAA-2006-4057
Using Thermoelectric Converters for Loop Heat Pipe Operating Temperature
Control
J. Ku, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD; and H. Nagano, Keio
University, Kanagawa, Japan
AIAA-2006-4046
Predicted Performance of Quantum Well Thermoelectrics for Power Generation
D. Krommenhoek, S. Ghamaty, J. Bass, N. Elsner, and V. Jovanovic, Hi-Z
Technology, Inc., San Diego, CA
AIAA-2006-4096
Mission of Daring: The General- Purpose Heat Source Radioisotope
Thermoelectric Generator
G. Bennett, formerly of the U.S. Department of Energy and NASA, Emmett, ID;
J. Lombardo, formerly of the U.S. Department of Energy and NASA, Damascus,
MD; R. Hemler, formerly of
Lockheed-Martin Space Systems Company, Audubon, PA; G. Silverman, formerly
of Lockheed-Martin Space Systems Company, Dresher, PA; C. Whitmore,
formerly of General Electric Company,
Broomall, PA; W. Amos, formerly of Mound Laboratory, Vandalia, OH; E.
Johnson, formerly of Mound Laboratory, Centerville, OH; A. Schock, formerly
of Orbital Sciences Corporation, Bethesda,
MD; R. Zocher and T. Keenan, formerly of Los Alamos National Laboratory, ;
J. Hagan, formerly of Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory,
; and R. Englehart, formerly of NUS
AIAA-2006-4200
Heat Rejection Concepts for Radioisotope Power Systems on the Lunar Surface
E. Tobery, D. Pantano, F. Dottore, and J. Reyes, Lockheed Martin Space
Systems, King of Prussia, PA; and R. Creel, Ryan Associates, Inc.,
Gloucester, MA
AIAA-2006-4193
Realistic Specific Power Expectations for Advanced Radioisotope Power
Systems
L. Mason, NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH
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+- Mini fridge exploits brownian motion
A recent Phys Rev. Lett. discusses a kind of molecular-scale Browian
motion motor which can perform work and/or produce cooling:
C. Van den Broeck, R. Kawai Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 210601 (2006)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett%2E96%2E210601
A preprint is available at http://arxiv.org:
http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0602153
and Nature has run a News and Views article on the subject
http://www.nature.com/materials/news/news/060601/journal/060529-1.html
While not expected to be particularly efficient and only a thought
experiment at this stage, thermoelectricians may find the use of Onsager's
relations interesting. Indeed, the authors do not directly estimate
efficiency but any good thermoelectrician ought to be able to generate
efficiency expressions rather, well, efficiently based on the author's
published results.
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UPCOMING EVENTS ( +-+- = New or Updated Information):
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+- ICT2006
The 25th International Conference on Thermoelectrics
August 6-10, 2006
Wien, Austria
Contact: Prof. Peter Rogl
ict2006 [at] its [dot] org
http://www.its.org/ict2006
+- Thermal Challenges in Next Generation Electronic Systems (THERMES
2007)
http://www.engconfintl.org/7acbody.html
Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
2007-01-06 thru 2007-01-06
Abstract Due Date: June 9, 2006
Contact: Professor Suresh V. Garimella, mailto:sureshg [at] ecn [dot] purdue [dot] edu
+- South Korea to Host ICT2007
The 26th International Conference on Thermoelectrics
Summer 2007 (precise dates TBD).
Seogwipo City, Jeju Island, S. Korea
Contact: Dr. Hee-Woong Lee
Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute
hwlee [at] keri [dot] re [dot] kr
Other details to be announced.
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