AVS 58th Annual International Symposium and Exhibition
    Energy Frontiers Focus Topic Tuesday Sessions

Session EN+NS-TuA
Nanostructured Materials for Thermophotovoltaics, Thermoelectrics & Plasmonics

Tuesday, November 1, 2011, 2:00 pm, Room 103
Moderator: Prashant Nagpal, Los Alamos National Laboratory


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2:00pm EN+NS-TuA1 Invited Paper
Thermal Plasmonics as a Route to Photovoltaics?
David Norris, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
2:40pm EN+NS-TuA3 Invited Paper
Nanocrystal Assemblies: A Modular Approach to Materials Design
Dmitri Talapin, University of Chicago
4:00pm EN+NS-TuA7 Invited Paper
Photonic and Plasmonic Crystals for Thermophotonics and Energy Conversion
Rana Biswas, Iowa State University & Ames Laboratory - US DOE
4:40pm EN+NS-TuA9 Invited Paper
Molecular and Hybrid Solution Processible Thermoelectrics
Rachel Segalman, S. Yee, University of California, Berkeley, N. Coates, J. Urban, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
5:20pm EN+NS-TuA11
Semiconductor Nanowire Networks as Thermoelectric Platforms
Andrew Lohn, University of California Santa Cruz, E. Coleman, G.S. Tompa, Structured Materials Industries, Inc., N.P. Kobayashi, University of California Santa Cruz
5:40pm EN+NS-TuA12
Diamond as an Electrode Material for the Direct Conversion of Thermal to Electrical Energy through Thermionic Emission
William Paxton, J.L. Davidson, W.P. Kang, Vanderbilt University