Chair(s): Kedar Hippalgaonkar(NTU/IMRE), Alex Yan Qingyu (NTU)
Co-Chair(s): D V Maheswar Repaka (IMRE), Kanishka Biswas (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre For Advanced Scientific Research, India)
Symposium Scope / Topics
- Machine Learning, High Throughput Experiments and Process Optimization to synthesize bulk and nanostructured TE materials, accelerated analysis and testing
- Thermoelectric Materials Design, Synthesis and preparation (conjugated polymers, inorganic-organic hybrids, nanocrystal arrays, quantum dots, nanowires, nanocomposites, 2D materials)
- Thermoelectric Materials Characterization (Seebeck Coefficient, Thermal Conductivity – inplane and crossplane, Bulk thermoelectric coefficients, Thermoelectric Powerfactor, ZT)
- Thermoelectric Concepts
- Band Structure optimization in inorganic materials
- Aligned conducting polymers and their properties
- Structure-Property relations in thermoelectric materials
- Phonon Engineering to reduce thermal conductivity
- New Physical Phenomenon
- Energy-dependent scattering in hybrid materials
- Magnetic tunability of thermoelectric properties
- Multivalley degeneracy and band/scattering engineering to enhance powerfactor
- Novel ways to enhance Seebeck coefficient of polymers
- Design strategies for multifunctional thermoelectrics
- Novel Applications
- Thin film thermoelectrics
- Flexible & Wearable Electronics
- Next Generation low-cost, high efficiency devices
Keynote / Invited Speakers
| G. Jeffrey Snyder | Northwestern University | USA |
| Takao Mori | National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba (NIMS) | Japan |
| Kanishka Biswas | JNCASR | India |
| Ajay Soni | IIT Mandi | India |
| Jiaqing He | Southern University of Science and Technology | China |
| Ady Suwardi | CUHK | Hong Kong China |
| Sunmi Shin | NUS | Singapore |
| Shi Xun | Shanghai institute of Ceramic | China |
| Tiejun Zhu | Zhejiang University | China |
| Yanliang Zhang | University of Notre Dame | Australia |
