Winter School 24th and 25th March 2011

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13:30 13:45 Registration/coffee

13:45 14:00 Welcome to Caen

14:00 15:30 Jeffrey Snyder – Talk?

Caltech Laboratory - California

15:30 17:00Thermoelectric materials: focus on some state of the art intermetallics

Dr. F. Gascoin, CRISMAT Laboratory

17:00 17:30 Coffee break

24th March

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17:30 19:30 An overview of oxides as thermoelectric materials (Tutorial)

Low temperature thermoelectric properties (Visit/training)

Seebeck, resistitivityThermal connectivity (PPMS)

Dr. Antoine Maignan, CRISMAT DirectorDr. S. Hébert, Solid state physics team leader

20:00 Dinner

25th March First Session

08:30 08:45 registration and coffee

08:45 10:30

Synthesis and processing of oxide and intermetallic thermoelectric materials

Dr. F. Gascoin, CRISMAT Laboratory

Dr. E. Guilmeau, CRISMAT Laboratory

10:30 12:00 Thermoelectric applications: from material to devicesProf. Christophe Goupil, CRISMAT laboratory - CNRT Matériaux vice-director

12:00 13:15 Lunch

13:15 16:15 Visit of the Spark Plasma Sintering (SPS) apparatus: Experiments showing the fast sintering of intermetallic and oxide cobaltite thermoelectrics

Visit of the high temperature thermoelectric properties Room: experiments on ZEM3 ULVAC-RIKO ( Seebeck coefficient and electrical resistivity) and Netzsch Laser Flash LFA457 ( Thermal conductivity)

Dr. E.Guilmeau/F.Gascoin

Other?Christophe?

16:15 16:30 Closing remarks

Coffee

25th March Second Session