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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

If your organization is interested in hosting the 2010 ECT please
contact for details:

Professor H. SCHERRER

Phone: 33 (0)3.83.58.41.61

Fax: 33 (0)3.83.58.40.48

E-mail: Hubert Scherrer mines u-nancy fr

Laboratoire de Physique des Matériaux (CNRS UMR 7556)

ECOLE DES MINES

Parc de Saurupt

54042 NANCY Cedex (France)

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 [dot] mingo [at] cea [dot] fr

Higher Fees Apply After: Free
Website: http://www.cecam.org/signup.html

(see the attachement

[1] for a properly formatted *.pdf version of this information)

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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[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 [dot] Gasser [at] empa [dot] 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
[1] in Freiburg/Brsg on July 26-30 and the workshop on "Relationship
between (nano)structures and thermoelectric properties" at CRISMAT

[2]Caen on July 22, 2009.

The aim of the meeting is to assemble scientists from universities,
scientific institutes as well as industry to promote co-operations on
the development of thermoelectric materials and devices. The symposium
will provide a forum for discussions among chemists, physicists,
engineers and materials scientists working on thermoelectric
conversion technologies. The topics include all aspects of
thermoelectric energy conversion.

Topics:

Activities and projects in Switzerland and abroad
Theory and fundamentals of thermoelectricity
Development of novel thermoelectric materials, including preparation
techniques: Innovative synthesis methods (Thin films, soft
chemistry,…)
Design of devices, including Micro Thermoelectric Converters
Applications in cooling and electricity generation
Characterisation and measurement techniques

Call for Papers:

You are invited to submit abstracts on topics within the scope of the
conference including the following information:

title of your paper
authors names and addresses
abstract of approx 1 page DIN A4.
oral or poster preference

by e-mail to Andrea Gasser empa ch.

Organisation:

Anke Weidenkaff, Empa
Antoine Maignan, CRISMAT
Myriam Aguirre, Empa
Petr Tomes, Empa
Matthias Trottmann, Empa
Andrea Gasser

[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

Links:

[1] http://ict2009.its.org/

[2] http://www-crismat.ensicaen.fr/

[3] http://www.empa.ch/plugin/template/empa/356/*/---/l=1

[4] http://www.empa.ch/plugin/template/empa/22/80429/---/l=1

[5] http://www.empa.ch/plugin/template/empa/*/41455/---/l=1

US DoE Creates Energy Frontier Research Centers (corrected)

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

[3]).

Supported in part by funds made available under President Obama’s
/American Recovery and Reinvestment Act / (Recovery Act), the EFRCs
will bring together groups of leading scientists to address
fundamental issues in fields ranging from solar energy and electricity
storage to materials sciences, biofuels, advanced nuclear systems, and
carbon capture and sequestration (synopses of the 46 EFRC awards

[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-Commitm...

[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
*

+- *PACRIM8 2009 Meeting
*
*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 [dot] mingo [at] cea [dot] 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 [dot] Gasser [at] empa [dot] ch

Website: http://www.empa.ch/tep-ch

Info Last Updated: 2009-05-27

*ICT2009 & ETS2009
*

+- *ICT2009 & ETS2009
*
*From: *2009-07-26* Through: *2009-07-30
*Location: *- Freiburg, Germany
*Contact: *Dr. Harald Böttner harald boettner ipm fraunhofer de
Ph: 0049/761/8857-121, FAX: 0049/761/8857-224
*Abstract Due Date: *
*Higher Fees May Apply After: *
*Website: *http://ict2009.its.org

*Info Last Updated: *2008-10-24

*ICAM2009
*

+- *ICAM2009
*
*From: *2009-09-20* Through: *2009-09-25 (check event website for
times)
*Location: *- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
*Contact: *Dr. Thierry Caillat thierry [dot] caillat [at] jpl [dot] nasa [dot] gov
thierry [dot] caillat [at] jpl [dot] nasa [dot] gov>

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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