Conferences

Dear Colleagues & Friends,

This is a reminder to inform you about:

the 5-th European Conference on Thermoelectrics (ECT2007)
September 10-12, 2007
House of Scientists, Odessa, Ukraine

Conference Topics:
   - Theoretical concepts in thermoelectricity and  basic approaches
   - New and improved thermoelectric materials
   - Low dimensional thermoelectric structures
   - New developments in measurement techniques and preparation methods

APS March Meeting 2006: TE Session (R16) and TE Tutorial (T4)
March 13-17, 2006 Baltimore, MD
http://www.aps.org/meet/MAR06/
Session R16: Thermoelectrics, Wednesday, March 15, 2006, 2:30PM - 2:42PM
Sponsoring Units: FIAP
Chair: Joseph P. Heremans, Ohio State University
15 Abstracts are available online:
APS March Meeting
Tutorial on Thermoelectrics: Session T4 Thermoelectric Energy Conversion
Sunday, March 12, 2006, 8:30am - 12:30pm
Organizer: Ali Shakouri. UC Santa Cruz; email: ali-at-soe.ucsc.edu
TE Tutorial

APS Tutorial on Thermoelectrics: Session T4 Thermoelectric Energy Conversion
Registration: $100 ($40 for students)
TE Tutorial

Mutual interaction of heat and electricity is the origin of Seebeck and
Peltier effects which are used in thermocouples for temperature sensing and
in thermoelectric modules for solid-state refrigeration or power
generation. An overview of recent advances in bulk and thin film
thermoelectric materials and devices will be given. Material optimization
is focused on reducing the lattice thermal conductivity without reducing
electrical conductivity and/or increase the Seebeck coefficient. Recent
development in skutterudites, clathrates, half-heusler alloys and oxides
will be reviewed. Nanoscale engineering of materials gives the opportunity
to modify the fundamental thermoelectric transport properties beyond what
can be achieved in bulk materials. These include quantum confinement due to
wave nature of carriers and interface effects such as thermionic emission
and evaporative cooling at heterostructures. Significant improvements based
on superlattices and embedded quantum dots have been achieved. Bipolar
thermoelectric effects will be introduced. They could be used for internal
cooling of electronic and optoelectronic devices. Finally fundamental
efficiency limitations of thermoelectric energy converters and practical
system optimization will be discussed.

Instructors:
Ali Shakouri, UCSC - Introduction to Thermoelectrics and Solid-state
Thermionics
Ctirad Uher. UMich - Novel Bulk Thermoelectric Materials
Mildred Dresselhaus, MIT - Low Dimensional Thermoelectrics
Rajeev Ram, MIT - Bipolar Thermoelectrics and System Optimization

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The Workshop "Thermoelectricity, from Alessandro Volta to Nanotechnologies"
will be held on July 14, 2005 in Italy, the city of Como, the birthplace of Alessandro Volta,
in the building of City Council.

The Workshop is organized on the initiative of the International Thermoelectric Academy
that at its General Meeting on September 10, 2004 confirmed that Alessandro Volta
discovered the effect of origination of electromotive forces and adopted a decision to
immortalize his memory as the pioneer of thermoelectricity.