Short Course 2

Miniaturized Silicon Thermoelectric Devices

Takanobu Watanabe
Waseda University

Abstract: This lecture will look at various examples of miniaturized thermoelectric devices that use silicon nanowires or low dimensional fine silicon structures at the sub-micrometer scale. Focus is centered on the Si integrated circuit thermoelectric generator, which is anticipated to pave the way for wireless IoT applications.

Biography: Takanobu Watanabe was born in 1972. He received the Ph. D. degree from Waseda University in 1999. He is currently a Professor at Waseda University. His research field includes electronic materials engineering and computational physics.