2015

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Awards

• Shuma Naito, 34th Annual International Conference on Thermoelectrics 2015 ITS Poster Award (The IST Outstanding Poster)(July, 2015)
  “Fabrication and Power Generation of a Silicide-based Thermoelectric Module”

Papers

• “Structural Investigation and Indium Substitution in the Thermoelectric Mn_2.7Cr_0.3Si₄Al_2-xIn_x Series”
  T. Barbier, E. Combe, R. Funahashi, T. Takeuchi, M. Kubouchi, Y. Miyazaki, E. Guilmeau and R. O. Suzuki
  Journal of Electronic Materials, 45, 1992 (2016).
• “Effect of Interstitial Mg in Mg_2+xSi on Electrical Conductivity and Seebeck Coefficient”
  M. Kubouchi, Y. Ogawa, K. Hayashi, T. Takamatsu, and Y. Miyazaki
  Journal of Electronic Materials, 45, 1589 (2016).
• “Crystal structure and thermoelectric properties of the incommensurate chimney-ladder compound VGe_γ (γ ~ 1.82)”
  H. Hamada, Y. Kikuchi, K. Hayashi, and Y. Miyazaki
  Journal of Electronic Materials, 45, 1365 (2016).
• “Crystal structure and thermoelectric properties of the incommensurate chimney-ladder compound RhGe_γ (γ～ 1.293)”
  Y. Miyazaki, T. Nakajo, Y. Kikuchi and K. Hayashi
  J. Mater. Res., 30, 2611 (2015).
• “Ionic liquid entrapment by an electrospun polymer nanofiber matrix as a high conductivity polymer electrolyte”
  R. S. Datta, S. M. Said, S. R. Shahrir, Norbani Abdullah, M. F. M. Sabri, S. Balamurugan, Y. Miyazaki, K. Hayashi, N. A. Hashim, Umma Habiba and Amalina M. Afifi
  RSC Advances, 5, 48217 (2015).

Invited Talks

EMN Thermoelectric Materials Meeting 2016 (February 21-25, 2016, Orland)

• “Effect of interstitial site in Mg₂Si on thermoelectric properties “
  M. Kubouchi (Invited lecture)

International Conference on Thermoelectric Materials Science 2015 (TMS2015) (November 9-11, 2015, Nagoya)

• “Incommensurate Nowotny chimney-ladder compounds as potential thermoelectric materials”
  Y. Miyazaki (Invited lecture)

34th Annual International Conference on Thermoelectrics (ICT2015) (June 28 – July 2nd, 2015, Dresden, Germany)

• “Enhanced thermoelectric performance of higher manganese silicides through the control of valence electron counts”
  Y. Miyazaki, Y. Kikuchi, H. Hamada, S. Naito, K. Hayashi, K. Yubuta (Invited lecture)

The 1st International Conference on Microstructure and Property of Materials (MPM-2015) (May 26-30, 2015, Hangzhou, China)

• “Enhanced thermoelectric performance of lightly Cr-substituted higher manganese silicides”
  Y. Miyazaki (Invited lecture)

Energy Materials Nanotechnology Phuket 2015 (EMN Phuket 2015) (May 4-7, 2015, Phuket, Thailand)

• “Nowotny Chimney-ladder Higher Manganese Silicides as Potential Thermoelectric Compounds”
  Y. Miyazaki (Invited lecture)

Conferences

International Conference on Thermoelectric Materials Science 2015 (TMS2015) (November 9-11, 2015, Nagoya)

• “Thermoelectric properties of Cr(Si_1-xGe_x)₂“
  H. Nagai (Poster)

APERIODIC 2015 (August 30- September 4, 2015, Břevnov Monastery, Prague)

• “Crystal Structure and Thermoelectric Properties of Incommensurate Higher Manganese Silicides”
  Y. Miyazaki

34th Annual International Conference on Thermoelectrics (ICT2015) (June 28th- July 2nd, 2015, Dresden, Germany)

• “Thermoelectric hexagonal A-Mg-Si with A=Sr and Ba Zintl phases”
  T. Kajitani, K. Takahashi, M. Saito, H. Suzuki, S. Kikuchi, M. Kubouchi, K. Hayashi (Oral)
• “Effect of interstitial Mg in Mg_2+xSi on electrical conductivity and Seebeck coefficient”
  M. Kubouchi, Y. Ogawa, K. Hayashi, T. Takamatsu, Y. Miyazaki (Oral)
• “Synthesis of Mo-substituted CrSi₂ by the soft-chemical technique”
  H. Nakasawa, T. Takamatsu, Y. Iijima, K. Hayashi, Y. Miyazaki (Oral)
• “Thermoelectric properties of Cr_1-xNb_xSi₂“
  H. Nagai, T. Takamatsu, Y. Iijima, K. Hayashi, Y. Miyazaki (Poster)
• “Fabrication of TTF-I_x thin films for thermoelectric applications”
  K. Kuba, K. Hayashi, Y. Miyazaki (Poster)
• “Fabrication and Power Generation of a Silicide-based Thermoelectric Module”
  S. Naito, R. Funahashi, Y. Matsumura, S. Katsuyama, Y. Kikuchi, K. Hayashi, Y. Miyazaki (Poster)
• “Crystal structure and thermoelectric properties of Nowotny chimney-ladder VGe_γ“
  H. Hamada, Y. Kikuchi, K. Hayashi, Y. Miyazaki (Poster)
• “Theoretical investigation of the excellent p-n control in yttrium aluminoborides”
  R. Sahara, T. Mori, S. Maruyama, Y. Miyazaki, K. Hayashi, T. Kajitani (Poster)

Thesis

Master

• “Structural and Thermoelectric Properties of Organic Material, TTF-I_x“
• “Fabrication and Power Generation of a Silicide-Base Thermoelectric Module”
• “Effects of Heavy Elements Nb and Ge Substitution on Thermoelectric Properties of CrSi₂“