Symposium 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 presentations‎.‎ These presentations were given from researchers from academia‎,‎ national laboratories‎,‎ and industry in the United States‎,‎ Asia and Europe‎.‎ The symposia covered a broad range of topics in the areas of materials‎,‎ measurement techniques‎,‎ and device development‎.‎ This volume provides an overview of the exciting recent developments in the field‎.‎

• Author‎:‎ George S‎.‎ Nolas‎,‎ Yuri Grin‎,‎ David Johnson‎,‎ Alan Thompson
• Publisher‎:‎ Cambridge University Press
• ISBN‎:‎ 9781605114675