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ECT 2025
2025-09-08 - 2025-09-11 | Prouvé Convention Centre Nancy, 1 place de la République, Nancy, 54063, France

ECT / ICT 2024
2024-06-30 - 2024-07-04 | Auditorium Maximum of the Jagiellonian University, 33 Krupnicza Street, Krakow, 33-332, Poland

ECT 2023
2023-09-17 - 2023-09-21 | Prague, OREA Hotel Pyramida, Bělohorská 24, Praha, 16901, Czech Republic
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19 th European Conference on Thermoelectrics (ECT 2023)

40th International & 19th European Conference on Thermoelectrics
2022-09-23 08:30 - 2022-09-26 17:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Auditorium Maximum of the Jagiellonian University, 33 Krupnicza Street, Krakow, 33-332, Poland
The ICT/ECT 2021 Scientific Committee are inviting you to actively participate in ICT/ECT 2021 conference in Krakow which will be a unique occasion for the exchange of views and experiences in the area of thermoelectricity (theory and modeling; physical phenomena; new materials, measurement techniques; thermoelectric devices; systems and applications). We look forward to receiving abstracts for consideration and inclusion in the program as oral or poster presentations.

ECT 2022
2022-09-13 - 2022-09-16 | Barcelona

ECT'20
2021-07-31 | Edinburgh
18th European Conference on Thermoelectrics

1st Online Workshop on Sustainable Thermoelectrics
2020-06-29 09:00 - 19:00 | Edinburgh
1st Online Workshop on Sustainable Thermoelectrics
The 1st Online Workshop on Sustainable Thermoelectrics will be held June 29, 2020 on ZOOM.

Resilient energy conversion technologies and the related materials resources are required in times such as the corona crisis. It reveals the ever-increasing dependence on international supply chains. Local and autarkic power technologies would be a solution for this dependence. One of those technologies is thermoelectricity – the direct conversion of waste heat (e.g. solar or geothermal) into electricity. To promote the exchange of knowledge between university, scientific institutes and industry in the field of thermoelectricity as well as to provide the opportunity to discuss future co-operations we invite all to our first ONLINEWorkshop on Sustainable Thermoelectrics.
Participants interested in contributing oral are invited to submit abstracts.

Date:
June 29, 2020; 09:00 a.m

Venue:
Zoom online meeting

Registration fee:
free

Contact:
Wenjie Xie, Phone: +49 6151 1625875

E-Mail:
wenjie.xie@mr.tu-darmstadt.de

URL:
https://www.mawi.tu-darmstadt.de/mr/mr/index.en.jsp

Workshop Program
TU Darmstadt | Fachgebiet MR | Alarich-Weiss-Str. 2 | 64287 Darmstadt
Opening and keynote (Chair: Anke Weidenkaff)
09:00 – 09:05 Anke Weidenkaff, Opening address
09:05 – 09:35 Claudia Felser, Topology and thermoelectric
New mechanism in TE (Chair: Anke Weidenkaff)
09:35 – 10:00 Takao Mori, Utilizing magnetism and other principles to enhance thermoelectric properties
10:00 – 10:25 Sylvie Hebert, Interplay between magnetism and Seebeck coefficient in some oxides and sulfides’
10:25 – 10:50 Tiejun Zhu, Carrier grain boundary scattering in thermoelectric materials
10:50 – 11:00 Break
Oxides and their application (Chair: Anke Weidenkaff)
11:00 – 11:25 Ryoji Funahashi, Example of thermoelectrics in the nonelectrified place
11:25 – 11:50 Andrei Kovalevsky, Thermoelectric oxides: challenges and selected approaches for materials design
11:50 – 12:15 Armin Feldhoff, Thermoelectric oxides: Materials and generators
12:15 – 13:30 Lunch Break
Theory (Chair: Wenjie Xie)
13:30 – 13:55 Jiong Yang, Materials Genome Methods and the Applications in Thermoelectrics
13:55 – 14:20 Hongbin Zhang, High-throughput Screening for Novel Two-Dimensional Thermoelectric Materials
Silicides and others (Chair: Wenjie Xie)
14:20 – 14:45 Johannes de Boor, Light-weight and environmentally friendly thermoelectric generators based on Mg2(Si,Sn): material optimization and contact development
14:45 – 15:10 Yury Kolenko, Unconventional thermoelectrics from colloidal nanocrystals
15:10 – 15:35 Jiri Hejtmanek, Thermoelectric performance of chalcopyrite
15:35 – 15:50 Break
Complex TE (Chair: Wenjie Xie)
15:50 – 16:15 Juergen Nuss, In search of thermoelectric phosphides
16:15 – 16:40 Jian He, An “entropic” view of thermoelectric materials research
Heusler and Topological TE (Chair: Anke Weidenkaff)
16:40 – 17:05 Jeffrey Snyder, Valence Balance and Orbital Chemistry in Heusler Thermoelectrics
17:05 – 17:30 Ran He, Unveiling the phonon scattering mechanisms in half-Heusler thermoelectric compounds
17:30 – 17:55 Qiang Li, Topological Thermoelectrics: Past, Present and Future
17:55 – 18:00 Anke Weidenkaff, Closing remarks
18:00 – 19:00 ePoster session (see 4-slide template here | e-mail to ruijuan.yan@mr.tu-darmstadt.de)
If you would like to participate, please send us a confirmation email before June 28, 2020.

39th International Conference on Thermoelectrics (ICT2020)
2020-06-21 - 2020-06-23 | Edinburgh
In light of the cancellation of spring / summer conferences due to Covid-19, we are planning to host a Virtual Thermoelectric Conference (VCT2020) to allow members of the thermoelectric community to share their most recent research. The meeting will be held online from July 21st – 23rd 2020 using the Zoom platform.
To give visibility to early career researchers, the call for oral contributions is restricted to students and postdocs. Oral presentations will be selected based on nominations from the PIs. PIs can nominate their students for oral presentations by May 08, 2020 using the following Google Form link: https://forms.gle/euc32KTBEs3nQ2P77. Poster contributions will be open to all participants and held via Twitter (VCT2020 hashtags will be provided in advance).
Attendance will be open to anyone who registers for the event. We do not anticipate any registration fee. Due to scheduling constraints, we are currently accepting oral contributions from US- and Europe-based research groups only, and we plan to hold the sessions primarily during US business hours. However, if there is interest, we would be more than happy to work with an organizing committee based in Asia to increase the scope of VCT to include Asian time-zones and oral contributions. Please contact Alexandra Zevalkink (alexzev@msu.edu) if interested in organizing an Asia-based program.
At this writing the conference website is not yet up and running, but it will be soon. Further information will soon be provided at https://vct2020.its.org as it becomes available.

17th European Conference on Thermoelectrics (ECT2019)
2019-09-23 - 2019-09-25 | Edinburgh
The ECT2019 was held September 23-25, 2019 at the St. Raphael Resort in Limassol / Cyprus. The conference was organized by Prof. Dr. Theodora Kyratsi from the University of Cyprus.
Programm and pictures of the event can still be viewed at cyprusconferences.org/ect2019.

XVI INTERSTATE CONFERENCE “THERMOELECTRICS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS - 2018” (ISCTA 2018)
2018-10-08 - 2018-10-10 | Edinburgh
The 16th Interstate Conference “Thermoelectrics and their applications – 2018” (ISCTA 2018) was held October 08 – 10, 2018 in St. Petersburg / Russia.
The conference was attended by 167 participants from 13 countries featuring 58 oral and 56 poster presentations.
A particular focus was on the young scientist section. University researchers, graduate and postgraduate students specializing in thermoelectric energy conversion made 19 oral and 21 poster contributions. The best young investigator presentations were honoured with special awards.
The conference proceedings will be published in the „Journal of Semiconductors” in 2019.
This biannual event was first organized in former Leningrad (St. Petersburg) / Russia in 1985 as a forum of the thermoelectric community of the then Soviet Union. In the post-Soviet era the conference series evolved into a meeting place for scientists from the Independent States of the former Soviet Union. Today, the conference provides a forum on thermoelectric materials and technology for the whole international thermoelectric community.
thermoelectrics.ru/rct2018.

Materials Science and Engineering Congress 2018 (MSE)
2018-09-26 - 2018-09-28 | Edinburgh
The Materials Science and Engineering Congress 2018 (MSE) was held September 26 – 28, 2018 in Darmstadt / Germany.
The congress promoting networking and exchange of ideas and know-how in the field of materials science and technology has been hosted already for the sixths time now. With more than 1,400 participants from 50 countries and 1,070 contributions, MSE 2018 was again a complete success.
An „Aftermovie” as well as a photo gallery of the MSE 2018 is now online.
Hosted by the German Materials Society (DGM – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Materialkunde e.V.) since 2008, the MSE has become the central platform for materials scientist and engineers to present their research to a large international community and to build networks across borders. This years’ guest country was Argentina represented by the Argentine Society of Materials (SAM Asociación Argentina de Materiales) and an ARG-GER committee.
The MSE congress is one of the largest international congresses in the field of Materials Science and Engineering across Europe. Every two years, numerous scientific questions in the field of Materials Science and Engineering are discussed in a variety of symposia, plenary lectures and the side events. An accompanying exhibition enables companies to present themselves and their products as well as the participants of the MSE Congress to get to know the latest trends in measurement technology and career opportunities in the economy.In addition to different side events, the DGM-Day with the DGM Forum for Young Talents is an integral part of the MSE.
The German Materials Society / Deutsche Gesellschaft für Materialkunde e. V. (DGM), founded in 1919, is the largest scientific and technical society in the field of materials science and engineering in Germany and a member of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS). It represents the interests of its members and ensures a continuous development in terms of content, structure and personnel in the field of materials science and engineering.
www.mse-congress.de

International Conference on Organic and Hybrid Thermeoelctrics (ICOT2018)
2018-01-29 - 2018-02-01 | Edinburgh
The International Conference on Organic and Hybrid Thermeoelctrics (ICOT2018) was held January 29 – February 1, 2018 in Valencia / Spain. Organizers were Andrés Cantarero (University of Valencia) and Xavier Crispin (University of Linköping).
It was the second edition of this conference format dedicated to the scientific exchange on organic and hybrid thermoelectrics aiming to strengthen their competitive position. Topics included molecules and compounds, composite materials, ionic thermoelectrics, thermogalvanic cells, metrology, theory, and application with a focus on organic thermoelectrics. The scientific program consisted of oral and poster sessions. Plenary Speakers were Michael CHABINYC, University of California, Santa Barbara / USA, Jaime GRUNDLAND, Texas A&M University, College Station / USA and Naoki TOSHIMA, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo / Japan. The conference had almost 150 participants with PhD students accounting for 40 %.
The next ICOT will be held at Georgia Tech, Atlanta / USA in 2020.

15th European Conference on Thermoelectrics (ECT2017)
2017-09-25 - 2017-09-27 | Edinburgh
The 15th European Conference on Thermoelectrics (ECT2017) was held September 25-27, 2017 at the A. Luciani” Padua Congress Centre, Padova / Italy. A total of 181 (oral and poster) papers were presented at the conference, which featured over 200 delegates.
The first day of the ECT kicked off with a presentation by Claudia Felser (Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids (CPfS), Dresden, Germany) who provided an inspiring discourse on influence of topology on the properties of solids and how these insights might benefit thermoelectric research. A diverse range of thermoelectric topics were broached on this day, ranging from oxide materials, through hybrids and composites, films and nanostructures, theory and modelling to applications. Additional invited talks were given by Philippe Jund (ICG Montpellier), Nick Bennett (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh) and Mauro Brignone (CRF, Orbassano). The day ended with a welcome reception in the lobby of the conference center.

The second day featured invited presentations by Muhammet Toprak (KTH, Stockholm), Daniel Zuckermann (Isabellenhütte, Dillenburg), Bartlomije Wiendlocha (AGH University, Krakow), David Berardan (Université Paris-Sud, Orsay) and Anthony Powell (University of Reading). Other work presented on this day included half Heusler materials, sulphides and selenides, and modules and TEGs. The Conference Dinner was held at the Centro Culturale Altinate/San Gaetano in downtown Padua. During the Conference Dinner, the ECT2017 poster prizes sponsored by the European (ETS), the German (DTG) and the Italian (AIT) Thermoelectric Societies were awarded to Monika Raja Thulasimani (Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin), Terumasa Tadano (NIMS, Tsukuba) and Alexey Osipkov (Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Moscow) and the location of the ECT2019 (Cyprus) was announced. Harald Böttner, former head of department at the Fraunhofer Institute for Physical Measurement Techniques IPM, was awarded the European Thermoelectric Society’s (ETS) award of honor for his many years of thermoelectric research and his commitment to the ETS (read also the news release of the Fraunhofer IPM).
On the final day of the conference, Mike Reece (Queen Mary University, London), Eric Alleno (ICMPE, Thiais) and Daniele Marré (Università degli Studi di Genova, Genoa) gave invited talks. The conference concluded with closing remarks.
The talks were accompanied by a series of tutorials on fundamentals and applications of thermoelectricity, on nanostructures and material characterization. Many of the presented papers will be published in the ECT2017conference proceedings as a special issue of the Materials Today: Proceedings (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/materials-today-proceedings).

2nd Stuttgart Workshop on Thermoelectrics (SWT2)
2017-08-08 08:00 - 17:00 | Edinburgh
On August 8, 2017, the 2nd Stuttgart Workshop on Thermoelectrics (SWT2) took place at the Institute for Materials Science of the University of Stuttgart / Germany. The follow-up event of last year’s SWT1 featured 20 oral and poster presentations and attracted more than 40 national and international participants from universities, research institutes and industry revealing the growing popularity of the conference. Topics span the whole range from basic research of common and novel materials through metrology to application.
The workshop itself was framed by two tutorials given by Prof. Dr. Terry M. Tritt from Clemson University (USA), a worldwide leading authority in the field of thermoelectrics. The two lectures titled “Overview of Thermoelectric Phenomena and Applications & Selection Criteria for Good Thermoelectric Materials” and “Bulk Thermoelectric Materials Measurements: A Look Behind the Curtain” offered valuable insights in the technology for both non-experts and specialists.

Due to the growing success with the scientific community this conference format will be continued. The next workshop in this series (SWT3) already planned for August 2018 will even broaden the range of topics to semiconductor basics and photovoltaic converters. Stay tuned to the “Phonons meet Photons Workshops”! Please send an e-mail to Dr. Wenjie Xie for further information.
More details, pictures and slides here.

1st Stuttgart Workshop on Thermoelectrics (SWT1)
2016-05-30 08:00 - 17:00 | Edinburgh
Since 2007, Professor Anke Weidenkaff has been assembling scientists from all over the world every second year to promote cooperation in the development of thermoelectric materials and devices. Four very successful previous workshops and conferences in Switzerland (TEP-CH) were held in 2007, 2009, 2011, and 2013 involving high level lectures of around 40 international and national distinguished invited speakers. In 2016, she was able to continue this splendid tradition by hosting a thermoelectric workshop in Stuttgart / Germany.
More details here.

ICT2016 Short Report
2016-05-29 - 2016-06-02 | Edinburgh
The 35th International Conference on Thermoelectrics (ICT2016) took place in Wuhan / China from May 29 to June 2, 2016. Professor Tang and his crew from Wuhan University of Technology arranged a perfect event in a beautiful venue. With 626 attendees, the conference was a great success
Six board members of the European Thermoelectric Society attended the ICT2016 (photo). Europe was generally well represented and it was a pleasure that Professors Hubert and Stanislas Scherrer (both Ecole des Mines, Nancy / France) were jointly presented with the 2016 Outstanding Achievement in Thermoelectrics Award.
Dr. Jan König and Prof. Dr. Yuri Grin were elected to the Board of Directors of the International Thermoelectric Society (ITS). Prof. Dr. Franck Gascoin was entrusted with the organization of the ECT/ICT2018 that will take place in Caen (Normandy) / France July 1-5, 2018.
