SiGe Microfabricated Thermoelectric Materials, Devices and Generators (Energy Harvesting and Storage Europe 2014)

1. The use of micro fabricated structures to extract the thermoelectric properties of materials.

2. The use of SiGe superlattices to enhance ZT and power factors over bulk materials.

3. The microfabrication of SiGe thermoelectric generators using MEMS processing

Prof Douglas J. Paul, Director James Watt Nanofabrication Centre, University of Glasgow, U.K.

Prof Paul is the Director of the James Watt Nanofabrication Centre at the University of Glasgow, UK. He has undergraduate and PhD degrees in physics from the University of Cambridge and was an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow at the Cavendish Laboratory before moving to Glasgow. He sits on numerous UK Government committees including Cabinet Office Threats, Defence Scientific Advisory Board and Home Office CBRN Committees. He has published over 250 articles and given over 80 invited presentations at international conferences while siting on the advisory boards of 5 international conferences. His research interests include nanofabrication, thermoelectrics, Si photonics and quantum devices.

The University of Glasgow was founded in 1451 and has since had many notable scholars including Kelvin, Watt, Rankine, Stirling, Black and Kerr. The James Watt Nanofabrication Centre is a pseudo-industrial cleanroom run by 19 technicians undertaking nanofabrication research and small scale production. The centre has sub-5 nm electron beam lithography capability and holds many world records for fabricating small and high-performance devices. Over 250 companies in 28 countries have used the centre in the last 5 years for the delivery of micro/nanofabrication processes to device demonstrators. Further details at: http://www.jwnc.gla.ac.uk/