International Symposium on Nano-Thermoelectrics

 11-12 June, 2007

 Chair and Contact

Ryoji Funahashi (AIST, Japan)

  Advisory Board 

Hiroshi Yokoyama (AIST, Japan)

 Yo Shimizu (AIST, Japan)

Kunihito Koumoto (Nagoya Univ., Japan)

Hiroaki Anno (Tokyo Univ. of Sci., Yamaguchi, Japan)

Ichiro Terasaki (Waseda Univ., Japan)

Shinsuke Yamanaka (Osaka Univ., Japan)

Makoto Sakata (Keio Univ., Japan)

Kakuei Matsubara (Tokyo Univ. of Sci., Yamaguchi, Japan)

Takenobu Kajikawa (Shonan Inst. of Tech., Japan)

George Nolas (South Florida Univ., USA)

Julian Goldsmid (Univ. of New South Wales, Australia)

Organizing Committee

Toshiyuki Mihara (AIST, Japan)

Chie Kimura (AIST, Japan)                      　

 Endorsement

          Thermoelectric Society of Japan     etc.

Preface

Waste heat from automobiles, factories, and similar sources offers a high-quality energy source equal to about 70 % of total primary energy, but is difficult to reclaim due to its source amounts being small and widely dispersed. Thermoelectric (TE) generation systems offer the only viable method of overcoming these problems by converting heat energy directly into electrical energy irrespective of source size and without the use of moving parts or production of environmentally deleterious wastes. Challenges to create novel TE materials have been motivated recently and investigations from various viewpoints of material design in nano-scale are being carried out extensively. Moreover TE modules are developing using from nano to micro techniques. In this Symposium, TE materials and modules from the present to next generations are introduced and discussed from nano-micro point of view.

Speakers

1. Julian Goldsmid (Univ. of New South Wales, Australia)
2. David Johnson (Univ. of Oregon, USA)
3. Michael Marek Koza (Institute Laue Langevin, France)
4. Ali Shakouri (Univ. California, Santa Cruz, USA)
5. George Nolas (South Florida Univ., USA)
6. Qiang Li (Brookhaven National Labs, USA)
7. Norbert B. Elsner (Hi-Z Technology, Inc., USA)
8. Sylvie Hébert (CNRS CRISMAT, France)
9. Hiromichi Ohta (Nagoya Univ., Japan)
10. Naoki Toshima (Tokyo Univ. of Sci., Yamaguchi, Japan) 
11. Ichiro Terasaki (Waseda Univ., Japan)
12. Shinsuke Yamanaka (Osaka Univ., Japan)
13. Ryoji Funahashi (AIST, Japan)

Conference Language         English

 Registration fee: Free (Max. number 100 persons)

Location

Senri Life Science Center

1-4-2, Shinsenri-higashi, Toyonaka, Osaka

http://www.senri-lc.co.jp/e-access.html

 Inquiries

Ryoji Funahashi

e-mail: funahashi-r [at] aist [dot] go [dot] jp, tel: +81-72-751-9485

URL: http://staff.aist.go.jp/funahashi-r/sympo.htm