Today (7 Mar) our group was asked to give an invited talk about our work on defect engineering of silicon thermoelectrics at the 19th International Conference on Extended Defects in Semiconductors (EDS2018). The conference is in Greece in late June. The talk will be given by Neil.

Today (14 Feb) we hosted the annual meeting of the UK Thermoelectric Network here in Edinburgh, along with Dr Jan-Willem Bos’ group. Thanks to all who attended, particularly our meeting sponsors and invited speakers.

This week (15-17 Jan) Juergen and Nick visited our campus in Dubai to undertake testing of Juergen’s ‘moon mirrors’.

This week (9 Jan) Peter visited Bangalore to participate in the India-UK Workshop on Thermoelectric Materials. Peter presented an overview of our group’s work in thermoelectrics.

Pleased today (4 December) to receive ‘Fledge’ funding from the Energy Academy for the project “Towards mitigation of impacts of marine renewable energy structures”, led by Associate Professor Jo Porter at our Orkney campus.