[ITSnews] ICT2009 Special Announcements & Pre-Events
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**ICT2009 Special Announcements
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Manuscript Final Deadline: July 10!
Awards Deadline: June 26!
(Manuscripts after this date not eligible for Awards)
Online Registration Now Open!
Abstract Submission Is Closed.
Program Now Available Online Here
**Two Meetings Before ICT2009**
I have just been made aware of two thermoelectric meetings to be held
just prior to ICT2009 in Switzerland. You still have time to attend
ONE of these meetings, but attending both may be difficult.
Call for Proposals to Host 2010 European Thermoelectric Conference
The European Thermoelectric Society requests proposals to host the
8th European Thermoelectric Conference at a location somewhere in
Europe in 2010. Proposals should be submitted before the 2009 European
Thermoelectric Conference to be held in Freiburg, Germany 26-30 July,
2009. For details on the 2009 conference see:
http://ict2009.its.org
Start: 2009-07-22 Through: 2009-07-24
Location: Lausanne, Switzerland
Contact: natalio.mingo@cea.fr
Higher Fees Apply After: Free
Website: http://www.cecam.org/signup.html
(see the attachement
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WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT
Thermoelectric Transport: progress in
first principles and other approaches
and interplay with experiment
July 22, 2009 – July 24, 2009
CECAM headquarters, http://www.cecam.org/lausanne.html
[2]
Lausanne, Switzerland
Organizers
Natalio Mingo (CEA-Grenoble, France)
Nathalie Vast (Ecole Polytechnique, France)
David Broido (Boston College, USA)
Derek Stewart (Cornell Nanoscale Facility, USA)
Invited Speakers
E. Bertranandy (Ecole Polytechnique), G. Cuniberti (TU-Dresden),
Keivan Esfarjani (UC
Santa Cruz), Giulia Galli (UC Davis), Gang Chen (MIT), Joseph
Heremans (Ohio State
University), Peter Kratzer (University of Duisburg-Essen), A. Lyakhov
(SUNY, Stony Brook),
Gerald Mahan (Pennsylvania State University), Takao Mori (National
Institute for Materials
Science, Namiki, Japan), A. Rastelli, (Leibnitz Institute, Dresden),
M. Roger (CEA-Saclay,
France), Ivana Savic (CEA Grenoble), J Sjakste (CNRS/Ecole
Polytechnique), Ali Shakouri
(UC Santa Cruz), Sebastian Volz (Ecole Centrale Paris), Paul Von
Allmen (Jet propulsion
Laboratory, Cal Tech), Shidong Wang (CEA Grenoble), Mona Zebarjadi
(UC Santa Cruz).
Registration:
The workshop is open to all researchers interested in thermoelectric
transport. Students and
postdocs are especially encouraged to participate. Poster
presentation slots are available.
There is no registration fee.
To register please sign up on the Cecam website (
http://www.cecam.org/signup.html
[3] ), and
then email the organizers (natalio mingo cea fr) the
following information, preferably by
June 15:
First and last name: Job title:
Institution: Country:
E-mail: Telephone number:
Webpage (if any):
Presenting a poster? (Yes/No)
Description of Program
The program will cover a broad array of topics at the forefront of
thermoelectrics research.
Predicitive theoretical methods (such as first principles, molecular
dynamics and monte carlo
approaches) will be highlighted and their utility in addressing
materials design issues for
thermoelectrics will be elucidated.
Each day will consist of morning and afternoon sessions with oral
presentations. Ample time for
discussion will be provided in each session. In addition, there will
be a late afternoon poster
session on the Day 1 and a late afternoon panel discussion on Day 2.
The focus of this panel
discussion will be: a) to highlight the major current thermoelectrics
challenges, b) to elucidate
promising future directions and c) to identify and promote possible
collaborative efforts between
the international group of workshop participants. A summary of the
tentative session workshop
organization is provided below:
Day 1: Novel Materials for Thermoelectrics (2 Sessions)
Wednesday morning: Powder and nanoparticle composites
Gang Chen: (title unavailable)
A. Shakouri: Metal/semiconductor nanocomposites for thermoelectric
energy conversion
M. Zebarjadi: thermoelectric materials with embedded nanoparticles
N. Mingo: nanoparticle composites: from simple modeling to ab-initio
calculations.
Wednesday afternoon: New bulk materials
T. Mori: "Critical role of disorder in the thermoelectric properties
of boron-rich compounds"
Nathalie Vast, E. Bertranhandy: "Boron and boron carbides from first
principles"
Joseph Heremans: "Designing chemical bonds to enhance the
thermoelectric figure of merit"
M. Roger: "Nanoscale patterning of sodium ions in thermoelectric
Cobaltates. Consequences
on transport properties"
Poster session
Day 2: Thermal transport (2 sessions)
Thursday morning: Nano-materials
S. Volz: (title unavailable)
A. Rastelli: Growth and thermal conductivity characterization of
self-assembled SiGe/Si(001)
nanocrystal multilayers.
I. Savic: Green’s function approach to thermal transport in
SiGe/Si(001) nanocrystal
multilayers.
David Broido: First principles approach to thermal transport in bulk
and nanostructured
materials.
P. Keblinski: Ultra-low thermal conductivity materials.
Thursday afternoon: Complex interfaces
Gerald Mahan: Kapitza thermal resistance between a metal and an
insulator.
Keivan Esfarjani: Lattice thermal transport in point contacts and
nanojunctions
Derek Stewart: A first principles approach to thermal resistance at
interfaces
Panel Discussion: “Beating the ZT Barrier: Issues and Future
Directions”
Day 3: Materials by Design (2 sessions)
Friday morning: Large scale ab-initio computations
G. Cuniberti: (title unavailable)
A. Lyakhov: "Evolutionary crystal structure prediction as a tool in
materials design"
Giulia Galli: (title unavailable)
P. Von Allmen: (title unavailable)
Friday afternoon: Advances in electron transport theory
P. Kratzer, V. Fomin: Theory of Miniband Transport in Quantum Dots
Shidong Wang: Green’s function approaches to electron filtering in
thermoelectric
nanocomposites.
J. Sjakste: "Electron-phonon coupling in Si and semiconducting
nanostructures: ab initio
description of transport properties"
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Links:
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http://www.its.org/system/files/cecam_Thermoelectric_Workshop_flyer-2.pdf
[2] http://www.cecam.org/lausanne.html
[3] http://www.cecam.org/signup.html
2nd Thermopower Symposium CH - 2009: Novel Thermoelectric Materials,
Devices and Applications
From: 2009-07-24 Through: 2009-07-24
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
Contact: Andrea Gasser, Andrea.Gasser@empa.ch
Website: http://www.empa.ch/tep-ch
Info Last Updated: 2009-05-27
Dates, Deadlines and Location:
24. July 2009 at Empa Dübendorf
Submission of abstract: 30. Juni 2009
Registration for reduced fee: 10. July 2009
The conference location has only limited space, therefore every
participant has to register as soon as possible (latest on July 10th).
In case all places are booked out, we will open a waiting list.
Scope:
The Symposium will be coupled to the International Conference on
Thermoelectrics ICT-ECT
[3] , Empa.
Programme:
comming soon
Confirmed invited speakers:
Kunihito Koumoto, Nagoya University
Jeff Snyder, California Institute of Technology
Ichiro Terasaki, Waseda University
Quiang Li, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Sponsors:
Swiss Federal Office of Energy
Swiss National Science Foundation, MaNEP
Registration
Please register here
[4] .
For further information reqests end an e-mail to Andrea Gasser:
Andrea Gasser empa ch
Venue
The conference will be held at Empa Dübendorf. Empa Dübendorf is
located north east of Zürich (approx. 7 km from the city centre).
The location can be reached by bus (VBG bus Nr. 787) or by foot
(12-15 min) via train stop Dübendorf (S9, S14) or Stettbach (S3, S9,
S12).
Map: How to find Empa
[5]
Public transport:
Train stop Dübendorf (S9, S14) –12 min walk
Train stop Stettbach (S3, S9, S12) - 17 min walk or bus trip to bus
stop EMPA: VBG-Bus 796 (starts every half an hour: 8:01, 8:31…)
Bus stop Ringstrasse: VBZ-Bus 787 (starts every 15 min.: 8:15,
8:30…)
Further information on accommodations and local transport can be
found on:
www.zuerich.com
DOE-BES has announced the selection and creation of Energy Frontier
Research Centers.
Two of the proposals selected are focused on thermoelectrics and an
third has thermoelectric content. [editor's note: In my original
posting I had missed the award to Don Morelli at MSU. Apologies for
the oversight.]
From the announcement (Full announcement -
http://www.sc.doe.gov/bes/EFRC.html
[1]):
*Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) Awards*
*/ April 27, 2009/*. The White House today announced that
the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science will invest $777
million in Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) over the next five
years. In a major effort to accelerate the scientific breakthroughs
needed to build a new 21st-century energy economy, 46 new
multi-million-dollar EFRCs
[2] will be established at universities, national laboratories,
nonprofit organizations, and private firms across the nation (White
House Fact Sheet
[4]).
[5]
The 46 EFRCs, which are to be funded at $2–5 million per year each
for a planned initial five-year period, were selected from a pool of
some 260 applications received in response to a solicitation
[6] issued in 2008 by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of
Science.
Over 110 institutions from 36 states plus the District of Columbia
will be participating in the EFRC research. In all, the EFRCs will
involve nearly 700 senior investigators and employ, on a full- or
part-time basis, over 1,100 postdoctoral associates, graduate
students, undergraduate students, and technical staff (fact sheet
[7]). Roughly a third of these researchers will be supported by
Recovery Act funding.
Synopses of the two centers related to thermoelectrics follow:
Center on Materials for Energy Efficiency Applications
John Bowers, Director
University of California, Santa Barbara
Objective: To discover and develop materials that control the
interactions between light,
electricity, and heat at the nanoscale for improved solar energy
conversion, solid-state lighting,
and conversion of heat into electricity.
The research in this EFRC is comprised of fundamental studies
involving synthesis and
characterization of a variety of materials: organic, inorganic,
nanostructured and bio-inspired
materials for solar energy conversion; nanostructured thermoelectric
materials for heat transport;
and gallium-nitride-based materials for solid-state lighting. This
EFRC includes planned
collaboration with scientists at the National Renewable Energy
Laboratory, Los Alamos National
Laboratory, the University of California Santa Cruz, and the
University of Michigan.
Revolutionary Materials for Solid State Energy Conversion: A DOE
Energy
Frontier Research Center
Donald Morelli, Director
Michigan State University
Objective: To investigate the underlying physical and chemical
principles of advanced
materials for the conversion of heat into electricity.
This EFRC will achieve its objective through the novel design,
synthesis, and characterization of
thermoelectric materials. The effort will focus on lowering the
thermal conductivity and
manipulating the electronic density of states to improve the
electrical conductivity in broad range
of materials, including nanostructured composites,
spinodal-decomposed materials, selfassembled
nanostructures, disordered inhomogeneous bulk systems, and
semiconductors with
resonant levels. The EFRC includes planned collaborations with
scientists at Northwestern
University, Ohio State University, University of Michigan, University
of California-Los Angeles,
Wayne State University, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Solid-State Solar-Thermal Energy Conversion Center
Gang Chen, Director
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Objective: To create novel, solid-state materials for the conversion
of sunlight and heat into
electricity.
This EFRC aims to advance our fundamental scientific understanding of
thermoelectric and
thermo-photovoltaic materials and to develop novel materials and
devices to harvest energy from
the sun and terrestrial heat sources. The multidisciplinary effort
integrates theory and experiment
to study the fundamentals of photon, phonon and charge carrier
interactions in thermoelectric
materials and will also utilize photonic crystals and metamaterials
to convert the solar energy
spectrum, in an attempt to provide an ideal match to the bandgap of
photovoltaic materials. This
EFRC includes planned collaborations with scientists at Boston
College and Oak Ridge National
Laboratory, and will encompass novel materials synthesis, phonon and
electron spectroscopies,
multi-scale modeling and simulation, and will utilize scanning
transmission electron microscopy
imaging facilities, neutron spectrometers at the High-Flux Isotope
Reactor and the Spallation
Neutron Source of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and ultraviolet
photoelectron spectroscopy
at the National Synchrotron Light Source at Brookhaven National
Laboratory.
Links:
[1] http://www.sc.doe.gov/bes/EFRC.html
[2] http://www.sc.doe.gov/bes/EFRC_Award_List.pdf
[3]
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Fact-Sheet-A-Historic-Commitment-To-Research-And-Education/
[4] http://www.sc.doe.gov/bes/EFRC_Synopses.pdf
[5] http://www.sc.doe.gov/bes/EFRC_fact_sheet.pdf
[6] http://www.sc.doe.gov/bes/EFRC_FOA.html
[7] http://www.sc.doe.gov/bes/EFRC_Fact_Sheet.pdf
*ZTjobs
(No new postings this time. See link for past postings.)*
*Upcoming Conferences*
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*PACRIM8 2009 Meeting
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+- *PACRIM8 2009 Meeting
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*From: *2009-05-31* Through: *2009-06-05
*Location: *Hyatt Regency, Vancouver - Vancouver, British Columbia,
Canada
*Contact: *Prof. Terry Tritt ttritt clemson edu
Ph: +1-864-656-5319, FAX: +1-864-656-0805
*Abstract Due Date: *November 3, 2008
*Higher Fees May Apply After: *
*Website: *http://www.ceramics.org/pacrim8.
*Info Last Updated: *2008-07-18
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Thermoelectric Transport: progress in first principles and other
approaches and interplay with experiment
Start: 2009-07-22 Through: 2009-07-24
Location: Lausanne, Switzerland
Contact: natalio.mingo@cea.fr
Higher Fees Apply After: Free
Website: http://www.cecam.org/signup.html
2nd Thermopower Symposium CH - 2009: Novel Thermoelectric Materials,
Devices and Applications
From: 2009-07-24 Through: 2009-07-24
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
Contact: Andrea Gasser, Andrea.Gasser@empa.ch
Website: http://www.empa.ch/tep-ch
Info Last Updated: 2009-05-27
*ICT2009 & ETS2009
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+- *ICT2009 & ETS2009
Ph: +1 (818) 354-0407, FAX:
*Abstract Due Date: *May 30, 2009
*Higher Fees May Apply After: *July 15, 2009
*Website: *http://www.icam2009.com/
*Info Last Updated: *2009-05-17
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