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           COLLOQUIUM OF THE COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS SCIENCE CENTER
                              College of Science
                       (CDS Department CSI 898-Sec 001)
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         Thermoelectric Materials, Standards and Metrology

                         Winnie Wong-Ng
            Functional Property Group, Ceramics Division
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD

A challenge of the global economy in the new millennium is for both 
emerging and mature industries to provide inexpensive, efficient, 
compact and environmentally friendly cutting-edge technologies for 
energy conversion applications. In response to these needs, for the 
past few years, research activities at the Functional Properties Group 
of Ceramics Division of NIST have included standards and metrology of 
thermoelectric materials as part of its program. The development and 
distribution of standard reference materials (SRMïª) for instrument 
calibration and for inter-laboratory data comparison has been one of 
the NIST core scientific activities. 

In this talk, I will give an overview of the thermoelectric materials, 
followed by a discussion of our efforts on the SRM development of the 
low temperature Seebeck coefficient standard for bulk materials, of 
new metrology developments for combinatorial films, and of 
thermoelectric materials structural characterization.

                        Monday, October 27, 2008
                                  4:30 pm
                     Room 301, Research I, Fairfax Campus

Refreshments will be served at 4:15 PM.
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