[ITSnews] 2009 Goldsmid & Young Investigator Award Winners

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Dr. Rhyee Wins 2009 Young Investigator Award

Dr. Rhyee selected as the 2009 Young Investigator International Thermoelectric Society recipient!

Dr. Rhyee from the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, South Korea has been selected as the recipient of the 2009 Young Investigator International Thermoelectric Society Award. The award will be given to Dr. Rhyee during the award ceremony at the ICT2009 banquet in Freiburg, Germany.
 

Dr. Rhyee received his PhD in 2005 from Gwang-Ju Institute of Science and Technology in South Korea. Dr. Rhyee’s outstanding contributions have been documented in a number of journal publications, including a recent contribution accepted for publication in Nature and titled: “Peierls distortion as a route to high thermoelectric performance in In4Se3-d crystals.” His curriculum vitae can be found here.

A total of four candidates competed for the award this year. In addition to Dr. Rhyee, the other candidates were:

 
  • Dr. Ihtesham Chowdhury, Intel Corporation, USA
  • Dr. Jian He, Clemson University, USA
  • Dr. Yaniv Gelbstein, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
With a very strong pool of applicants this year, the selection was difficult but the Selection Committee eventually declared Dr. Rhyee as the winner for this year.

On behalf of the International Thermoelectric Society, I would like to thank all applicants and commend them for their outstanding accomplishments in the field of thermoelectrics. I would also like to, again, congratulate Dr. Rhyee for this fine accomplishment.

 
Thierry Caillat
President, International Thermoelectric Society

 

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Mr. Han Li Wins 2009 ITS Goldsmid Award

Mr. Han Li selected as the 2009 International Thermoelectric Society Goldsmid Award recipient!

Mr. Li from Wuhan University of Technology, China has been selected as the recipient of the 2009 International Thermoelectric Society Goldsmid Award. The award, generously sponsored in part by Marlow Industries, will be given to Mr. Li during the award ceremony at the ICT 2009 banquet in Freiburg, Germany.

Mr. Li received his BS and MS degrees in Materials Science in 2001 and 2005, respectively, from Wuhan University of Technology, China.  Mr. Li is a currently Ph.D. candidate at the same school.  Mr. Li’s outstanding contributions have been documented in a number of journal publications, on the synthesis and characterization of nanostructured skutterudite materials.  His curriculum vitae can be found here [1].

 

A total of four candidates competed for the award this year. In addition to Mr. Li, the other candidates were:

 

  • Mr. Yee Kan Koh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

  • Mr. Jiong Yang, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, China
  • Ms. Mona Zebarjadi, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, USA

     

With a very strong pool of applicants this year, the selection was difficult but the Selection Committee eventually declared Mr. Han Li as the winner for this year.

 

On behalf of the International Thermoelectric Society, I would like to thank all applicants and commend them for their outstanding accomplishments in the field of thermoelectrics. I would also like to, again, congratulate Mr. Li for this fine accomplishment.

Jihui Yang and Peter Rogl
Goldsmid Award Committee


International Thermoelectric Society

 

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2009 ITS Board Candidates

Up to four International Thermoelectric Society (ITS) Board Director positions will be open for election at the 28h International Conference on Thermoelectrics, to be held in Freiburg, Germany, July 26-30, 2009.

ICT2009 Attendees are encouraged to familiarize themselves in advance with the candidates.

Six nominees have agreed to stand for election to the ITS Board in 2009:

 

Brief biographies may be downloaded using the link(s) below.

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The 2009 Thermoelectrics Applications Workshop will be held on September 29 to October 2  in the Del Coronado Hotel in greater San Diego, CA.

The DOE Vehicle Technologies (VT) Program has pioneered the development and application thermoelectrics in vehicles. As a result, it is expected that within 5 years, the first generation thermoelectric generators that will directly convert engine waste heat to electricity will be commercially introduced in the automotive market. DOE/VT is also jointly funding, with the California Energy Commission (CEC), competitively selected project teams headed by Ford and GM to develop automotive thermoelectric heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (TE HVAC) systems, using the “zonal concept” of cooling or heating only the occupants and not the whole cabin, which will revolutionize occupant comfort conditioning.  TE HVAC systems are strong candidates to replace current vehicular air conditioners using the refrigerant gas R-134a with a global warming potential that is 1,300 times that of carbon dioxide (CO2).  

When successful, these two automotive applications will greatly expand the volume of thermoelectric materials to supply the auto market here and abroad, providing an added stimulus to develop more efficient  thermoelectrics, improve scale up production capabilities, and reduce cost with volume production as has historically been the case with semiconductor devices.

The purpose of this Workshop is to expand the interest in thermoelectrics for automotive as well as other applications, such as directly converting waste heat from industrial processes, geothermal, stationary power prime movers (gas turbines and diesels), rail, marine and off-highway equipment to electricity. Key Principal Investigators will be invited to summarize their work for this audience. The Project Engineers on the DOE/VC TEG and TE HVAC will provide a summary of their design efforts. Representatives from the fabrication community will be invited to discuss scale up and "commercial viability"

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