Call for Abstracts

On behalf of the Conference Chair, Professor Jihui Yang, we invite all scientists and engineers working on thermoelectrics to participate the 39th International Conference on Thermoelectrics (ICT 2020), June 28 to July 2, 2020, at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.

Abstract Submission

(Due date: Dec. 15, 2019)

Please send your abstract for ICT 2020 using the Abstract Submission Form by e-mail.

The Abstract Submission Form is online for downloading below or at the link:

http://depts.washington.edu/uwconf/wordpress/ict2020/abstracts/

Please send filled abstract forms to the ICT 2020 official e-mail:

Ict20@uw.edu

If you have questions concerning submission of your abstract, please also feel free to write to this e-mail.

The following is a list of topics for the oral or poster presentations available at ICT 2020. Please choose one of the topics in the Abstract Submission Form that your work mostly relates to. The final program topics may be slightly different or more specific depending on the submitted abstracts.

A. Classic thermoelectric materials

B. Quantum materials

C. Superionic conductors

D. Oxides and oxyselenides

E. Chalcogenides and Zintl phases

F. Organic and hybrid materials

G. Mg3Sb2 and related materials

H. Low-dimensional and nanoscale systems

I. Other new materials and concepts

J. Characterizations and processing

K. Theory and modeling

L. Thermoelectric devices and applications

M. Memory for G. Slack

N. Other topics

Glen was already a giant when I first met him at GE in 1984. The year I was born he established isotope scattering as the main source of thermal resistance at low temperatures in Silicon. Isotope scattering is a special case of mass fluctuation scattering, without which we'd probably have no useful thermoelectric materials at all. 

Slack, Glen A. "Effect of isotopes on low-temperature thermal conductivity." Physical Review 105, no. 3 (1957): 829.

Up to four (4) International Thermoelectric Society (ITS) Board Member positions will be open for election at the coming International Conference on Thermoelectrics (ICT2019), to be held in Gyeongju South Korea, June 30 to July 4, 2019.