Schedule and Program
The tentative general schedule of the whole conference is attached.
On Sunday afternoon, a Round Table discussion on “Future of TE Applications” will be held,
in addition to the ITS Summer School and ITS Young Investigator Award Talks.
We are pleased to inform you of the details of the Round Table discussion.
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Plenary Speakers
- Professor Zhifeng Ren
University of Houston, USA
"Enhancing Output Power and Cooling of Bi2Te3-based Materials and Modules"
- Professor Yuri Grin
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Germany
"Chemical bond in thermoelectric materials: efforts, problems and perspectives"
- Professor Jing-Feng Li
Tsinghua University, China
"Microstructure and defect engineering of thermoelectric materials"
- Doctor Haruhiko Obara
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
"Development Trends of Thermal Management Technologies in Japan and Expectations for Thermoelectrics"
- Professor Hidetoshi Fukuyama
Tokyo University of Science, Japan
"Thermoelectric Effects: Materials and Kubo-Luttinger Theory"
2020 ITS Outstanding Achievement Award Lecture
- Professor Terry Tritt
Clemson University, USA
Invited Speakers
Invited Speakers will also be selected later from the Abstracts by the Organizing Committee.
- Doctor Thierry Caillat
Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology, USA
"Development Status of Skutterudite-based Thermoelectric Technology for Integration into a Potential Skutterudite-Multi Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator"
- Professor Joseph Heremanns
The Ohio State University, USA
“Landau-level quantization offers a path to high zT for T < 200 K and B < 0.5 T”
- Professor Mercouri Kanatzidis
Northwestern University, USA
“Engineering Thermoelectric Materials From Band Structure Tuning to High-Entropy Alloys”
- Professor George Nolas
University of South Florida, USA
“Structural, disordered and stoichiometric features leading to low thermal conductivity in thermoelectric materials”
- Professor G. Jeffrey Snyder
Northwestern University, USA
“Strategies for Engineering Complex Thermoelectric Materials”
- Professor Ctirad Uher
University of Michigan, USA
"Recent Progress in Half-Heusler Thermoelectrics"
- Professor Alexandra Zevalkink
Michigan State University, USA
“High-temperature elasticity and thermal transport in GeTe and related systems”
- Professor Holger Kleinke
Waterloo University, Canada
“Orchestrating Machine Learning for Thermoelectric Performance Predictions”
- Professor Antoine Maignan
CRISMAT, France
“Thermopower, anomalous effects and magnetism in selected metallic oxides and metal-rich sulfides”
- Professor Kornelius Nielsch
IFW-Dresden, Germany
“Durable and sustainable thermoelectric devices made from zinc and magnesium-antimony alloys”
- Professor Marisol Martín González
Instituto de Micro y Nanotecnología, Spain
"Nanoengineering Thermoelectrics to Tailor Thermal and Electrical Conductivity"
- Professor Ernst Bauer
Vienna University of Technology, Austria
“Off-stoichiometry in full Heusler compounds: a promising path to tune thermoelectricity”
- Professor Kanishka Biswas
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, India
“Emphanisis: Local off-centering of atoms with warming”
- Professor John Kennedy
GNS Science, New Zealand
“Structure and transport properties of doped transparent thermoelectric copper(I) iodide”
- Professor Xinfeng Tang
Wuhan University of Technology, China
“Defect structure and related thermoelectric transport properties of Bi2Te3-based compounds”
- Professor Wenqing Zhang
Southern University of Science and Technology, China
“Non-Fermi-liquid metallic thermoelectric materials”
- Professor Xun Shi
Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, China
“Thermoelectric materials and devices based on ductile semiconductors”
- Professor Tiejun Zhu
Zhejiang University, China
"Half-Heusler thermoelectric materials"
- Professor Qian Zhang
Harbin Institute of Technology, China
"Phase diagram design of thermoelectric materials and devices"
- Professor Hsin-Jay Wu
National Taiwan University, Taiwan
"Highly Anisotropic Crystals Realizing High Thermoelectric Conversion Efficiency Near Room-Temperature Region"
- Professor Woochul Kim
Yonsei University, Korea
“Various device architectures of thermoelectric systems”
- Professor Jong-Soo Rhyee
Kyung Hee University, Korea
“Enhancing thermal stability and thermoelectric performance by hierarchical phonon scattering from nano to macro scale and cost-effective module structure”
- Emeritus Professor Kunihito Koumoto
Nagoya University, Japan
“Nanoblock Integration Strategy for Thermoelectrics”
- Professor Ichiro Terasaki
Nagoya University, Japan
“Scattering time: The last black box in modern thermoelectrics"
- Professor Sheng Shen
Carnegie Mellon University
“Ultra-high-performance Nanostructured Thermal Interface Materials for Advanced Cooling Applications”
- Professor Michihiro Ohta
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
“Thermoelectrics for a series hybrid electric vehicle with lean burn engine”
- Professor Yanliang Zhang
University of Notre Dame
“High-Throughput Printing of High-Performance and Low-Cost Thermoelectric Materials and Devices”
- Professor Zihang Liu
Harbin Institute of Technology
“Design of Highly Efficient Magnesium-Based Thermoelectric Modules for Power Generation Applications”
- Doctor Hsin Wang
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
“International Round-Robin Testing of Thermoelectric Modules and Development of Standard Modules for Power Generation”
- Doctor Yuya Sakuraba
National Insitute for Materials Science
“Anomalous Nernst effect-based heat flux sensors: new materials and designs for high sensitivity and stability”
- Professor Hiroaki Shishido
Osaka Metropolitan University
“Chirality-induced selectivity of phonon angular momenta in chiral quartz crystals probed by the steady heat-flow method”
- Professor Iris Nandhakumar
University of Southampton
“Enhanced Charge Transport at the Interface in P3HT-Tellurium Nanowires Hybrid Materials for High Thermoelectric Performance”
- Professor Taishi Takenobu
Nagoya University
“Systematic investigation of charge transport and thermoelectric properties in semicrystalline organic polymers”
- Professor Weishu Liu
Southern University of Science and Technology
“Ionic thermoelectric Gels:Energy conversion, Thermal regulation, and Thermal sensing”
- Professor Yiyang Sun
Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
“Temperature Dependence of Spin-Orbit Coupling Effect in Solids”
- Professor Eric S. Toberer
Colorado School of Mines
“Impact of local structure and dynamic strain in chalcogenide alloys on thermoelectric transport properties”
- Professor Kedar Hippalgaonkar
Nanyang Technological University
“Property-Directed Generative Design and High Throughput Synthesis enables high thermoelectric performance in co-doped AgSbTe2”
- Professor Byungki Ryu
Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute (KERI)
“Defect rich thermoelectric materials and device physics”
- Professor Jun Mao
Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen)
“Characterization of the cooling performance and the design of high-performance thermoelectric coolers”
- Professor Yunpeng Zheng
Fuzhou University
“Carrier-phonon decoupling in perovskite thermoelectrics via entropy engineering”
- Professor Susan M. Kauzlarich
University of California Davis
“Structure and Thermoelectric Properties of New Member of the Ca14AlSb11 Zintl Phases”
- Professor Koichiro Suekuni
Kyushu University
“Interaction between Cu-S-based sphalerite-like frameworks and interstitial cations”
- Professor Jiaqing He
Southern University of Science and Technology
“Structure and property relationship in high-entropy thermoelectric materials”
- Professor Wenjie Xie
TU Darmstadt, Germany