Thermoelectric Materials Research and Device Development for Power Conversion a…

Thermoelectric Materials Research and Device Development for Power Conversion and Refrigeration: Volume 1490Author(s): George S. Nolas, Yuri Grin, David Johnson, Alan Thompson\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Materials Research Society, United States\nImprint: Materials Research Society\nISBN-13: 9781605114675, 978-1605114675\nSynopsis\nSymposium B, 'Thermoelectric Materials Research and Device Development for Power Conversion and Refrigeration', held from November 26-30 at the 2012 MRS Fall Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts, was the tenth in a series of symposia on state-of-the-art materials and technologies for direct thermal-to-electric energy conversion that produced proceedings with primary focus on material and technological advances of thermoelectrics and thermionics (see MRS Proceedings volumes 234, 478, 545, 626, 691, 793, 886, 1044 and 1166). In this symposium there were 263 contributed presentations, the largest by far at the MRS, including 10 invited talks and 168 poster pres.