New Thermoelectric Materials Workshop
A workshop sponsored by Michigan State University
August 17th-August 21st, 2002
Traverse City, Michigan, USA
 

Schedule

Please note, the conference registration includes the reception on Saturday night, Breakfast on Sunday through Wednesday, and the conference banquet on Monday evening.   There are various restaurants in the hotel and within walking distance of the hotel where other meals can be taken.  The beach is also accessible on foot.
Saturday 17th August    
7:00 pm -9:00 pm Reception Courtyard Rooms
Sunday 18th August    
7:30 am Breakfast Top of the Park
9:00-9:15 Welcome - Opening Remarks Courtyard Rooms
Oral Session – Chair: Courtyard Rooms
9:15 am - 10:00 am

J.-P. Fleurial, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

15 minute discussion

 
10:15 am - 11:00 am Mercouri G. Kanatzidis, Michigan State University

New Bulk Materials for Thermoelectric Applications: Synthetic Strategies

15 minute discussion
 
11:15 am - 11:45 am Coffee Break (Poster Session during break)  
11:45 am - 12:20 pm

George Nolas, University of South Florida

Group-IV Clathrates: Interesting Science from Applied Reasearch

10 minute discussion

 
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Lunch (on own)  
Afternoon Free Afternoon Fee - Trip to Sleeping Bear Dunes (transportation will be arranged) The Beach!
6:00 pm -8:00 pm Dinner (On your own)
Oral Session - Chair: Courtyard Rooms
8:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Holger Kleinke, University of Waterloo

Intercalation of Small Cations into the Semiconductor Mo3Sb5Te2

10 minute discussion

 
8:40 pm - 9:10 pm Duck-Young Chung, Michigan State University

Progress for the Enhancement of ZT and the Thermoelectric Applications of CsBi4Te6

10 minute discussion
 
 9:20 pm - 9:50 pm Tim Hogan, Michigan State Univeristy

A Reveiw of Measurement Techniques for Thermoelectric Materials and Devices

10 minute discussion
 
Monday 19th August    
7:30 am Breakfast Top of the Park
Oral Session- Chair: Courtyard Rooms
8:45 am - 9:30 am Gerry Mahan, Pennsylvania State University

Thermionic-Thermoelectric Devices

15 minute discussion
 
9:45 am - 10:30 am Joseph Heremans, Delphi Research Laboratory

Thermoelectric Transport in Bismuth Nanowires: A Review of Experimental Results

15 minute discussion
 
10:45 am - 11:15 am Coffee Break (Poster Session during break)  
11:15 am - 12:00 pm Frank DiSalvo, Cornell University

The Synthetic Search for Better Thermoelectric Materials

15 minute discussion
 
12:15 am - 12:45 pm Takenori Fujii, Waseda University

Block-Layer Concept for the Layered Co Oxide: A Design for Thermoelectric Oxides

10 minute discussion
 
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Lunch Break (on your own)  
 2:30-7:00  Free Time  
7:00 pm - 10:00 Conference Banquet Top of the Park
Tuesday 20th August    
7:30 am Breakfast Top of the Park
Oral session - Chair: Courtyard Rooms
8:45 am - 9:30 am Millie Dresselhaus, MIT

Bismuth Nanowires for Thermoelectric Applications

15 minute discussion
 
9:45 am - 10:30 am  Rama Ventkatasubramanian, RTI

Superlattice Thermoelectric Materials and Devices

15 minute discussion
 
10:45 am - 11:15 am Coffee Break (Poster Session during break)  
11:15 am - 12:00 pm  Ted Harman, MIT

Self-Assembled Quantum DOT Superlattice Thermoelectric Materials and Devices

15 minute discussion
 
12:15 am - 12:40 pm  Terry Aselage, Sandia National Laboratories

Boron Carbides: Unconventional High-Temperature Thermoelectrics

10 minute discussion
 
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

12:45 pm Conference Photo

Lunch Break (on your own)

 
Oral Session - Chair:  Courtyard Rooms
 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm Jorge O. Sofo, Pennsylvania State University

Toward an ab-initio determination of transport coefficients

10 minute discussion
 
 3:10 am - 3:40 pm

 John Badding, Pennsylvania State University

Pressure Tuning of Thermoelectric Materials

10 minute discussion

 
 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm  Dinner (on your own)  
 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Jihui Yang, Materials and Processes Lab, General Motors R & D and Planning

Thermal Conduction in CoSb_3-based Skutterudites

10 minute discussion

 
8:00 pm - 8:35 pm Horia Metiu, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara

Simulations of the Thermoelectric Properties of Clathrates and Other Cage Compounds

10 minute discussion
 
8:45 pm - 9:20 pm S. D. Mahanti, Michigan State University

Electronic Structure of Complex Bismuth Chalcogenide Systems

10 minute discussion
 
Wednesday 21st August    
7:30 am Breakfast Top of the Park
Oral Session - Chair:  Courtyard Rooms
 8:45 am - 9:30 am

Ctirad Uher, University of Michigan

Recent Progress in the Study of Skutterudites as Novel Thermoelectric Materials

15 minute discussion

 
 9:45 am - 10:30 am

Chen Gang, MIT

Phonon Heat Conduction in Superlattices

15 minute discussion

 
 10:45 am - 11:15 am Coffee Break  
 11:15 am - 11:45 am

Norbert Elsner, HiZ Technology, Inc.

TBA

10 minute discussion

 
 11:45 am - 12:00 pm General Discussion, Conclusions  
 12:00 pm  Adjourn