Plenary and Invited Papers at the XVI International Conference on Thermoelectrics August 26 - 29, 1997, Dresden, Germany

PLENARY TALKS

Mildred S. Dresselhaus, G. Dresselhaus, X. Sun, S. Cronin, Z. Zhang, J. Y. Ying, T. C. Harman, T. Koga, K. L. Wang, G. Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (USA)
LOW DIMENSIONAL THERMOELECTRICS

J.-P. Fleurial, T. Caillat and A. Borshchevsky, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA (USA)
SKUTTERUDITES: AN UPDATE

Sander van Herwaarden, Xensor Integration B.V., P.O. Box 2333, 2601 De Delft (The Netherlands)
SENSOR APPLICATIONS OF THERMOELECTRIC THIN-FILMS

Takenobu Kajikawa, Department. of Electrical Engineering, Shonan Institute of Technology, Fujisawa, Kanigawa (Japan)
STATUS AND FUTURE PROSPECTS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THERMOELECTRIC POWER GENERATION SYSTEMS UTILIZING COMBUSTION HEAT FROM MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE

Gerald D. Mahan, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (USA)
RARE EARTH THERMOELECTRICS

John G. Stockholm, Marvel Thermoelectrics, Marsinval, Vernouillet (France)
CURRENT STATE OF PELTIER COOLING


INVITED TALKS

Lukyan I. Anatychuk, Institute of Thermoelectricity, Chernivtsy (Ukraine)
COMPLEX WORKS OF THE INSTITUTE OF THERMOELECTRICITY IN THEORY, MATERIAL SCIENCE AND APPLICATION OF THERMOELECTRICITY

D. J. Bergman, School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University (Israel)
THERMOELECTRIC PROPERTIES OF A MACROSCOPICALLY INHOMOGENEOUS MEDIUM

T. Caillat and J.-P. Fleurial, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA (USA)
NEW LOW THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY MATERIALS FOR THERMOELECTRIC APPLICATION

Theodore C. Harman, D. L. Spears, M. P. Walsh, X. Sun, S. B. Cronin, and M. S. Dresselhaus, Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lexington, MA (USA)
HIGH THERMOELECTRIC FIGURES OF MERIT IN PbTe QUANTUM WELLS

T.E. Huber and L. Luo, Department. of Physics, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY (USA)
THERMOELECTRIC PROPERTIES OF WIRE ARRAY COMPOSITES

Mercouri G. Kanatzidis, Duck-Young Chung, Xiangzhong Chen, Tim Hogan, Jon Schindler and Carl Kannewurf, Department of Chemistry, Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (USA)
NEW CHEMICALLY AND STRUCTURALLY COMPLEX BISMUTH TELLURIDES AS ADVANCED THERMOELECTRICS

H. Lange, Hahn-Meitner Institute GmbH Berlin, Department Photovoltaics, Berlin (Germany)
SEMICONDUCTING SILICIDES: ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE, ELECTRICAL AND THERMOELECTRICAL PROPERTIES

M. Niino, T. Ohshima and K. Matsubara, National Aerospace Laboratory, Kakuda Research Center, Kimigaya, Kakuda (Japan)
RESEARCH PROJECT ON THE EFFECTIVE USE OF UNTAPPED THERMAL ENERGY FROM GARBAGE INCINERATION ETC

Teruo Noguchi,Vacuum Metallurgical Co., Yokota, Chiba-ken (Japan)
POWDER PROCESSING OF THERMOELECTRIC MATERIALS - FOCUSING ON GeSi WITH NEW SINTERING

Egbert Oesterschulze, Institute for Technical Physics, University Gh Kassel (Germany)
THERMAL AND ELECTRICAL IMAGING OF SURFACE PROPERTIES WITH HIGH LATERAL RESOLUTION

Toshitaka Ohta, Electrotechnical Laboratory, AIST, MITI, Tsukuba, Ibaraki (Japan)
THERMOELECTRIC RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITY AT MITI - RESEARCH ON THERMOELECTRIC GENERATOR USING LOW CALORIE EXHAUST GAS

Thomas L. Reinecke, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC, (USA); David A. Broido, Department of Physics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA (USA)
THERMOELECTRIC TRANSPORT IN LOW DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS

D. Michael Rowe, NEDO Centre for Thermoelectric Engineering, Cardiff School of Engineering, Cardiff (UK)
DEVELOPMENT OF IMPROVED MODULES FOR THE ECONOMIC THERMOELECTRIC RECOVERY OF LOW TEMPERATURE WASTE HEAT

Ichiro K. Shiota and Isao Nishida, Department Environmental Chemical Engineering, Kogakuin University, Tokyo (Japan)
DEVELOPMENT OF FUNCTIONALLY GRADED THERMOELECTRIC MATERIALS IN JAPAN - THE STATE OF THE ART

Terry M. Tritt, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Materials Science and Engineering Dept., Clemson University, Clemson, SC (USA)
TO BE OR NOT TO BE: LOW DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS, QUASICRYSTALS AND QUASICRYSTALLINE APPROXIMANTS AS POTENTIAL THERMOELECTRIC MATERIALS

Marat V. Vedernikov, V. A. Kutasov, L. N. Luk`yanova, V. L. Kuznetsov, A.F.Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, St. Petersburg (Russia)
PROSPECTS OF THERMOELECTRIC COOLING AT LOW TEMPERATURE

Friedemann Völklein, Fh Wiesbaden, FB Physikalische Technik, Wiesbaden (Germany) THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY IN THIN FILMS - EXPERIMENTAL METHODS AND THEORETICAL INTERPRETATION