he 3rd IEEE Workshop on Wide Bandgap Power Devices and Applications (WiPDA) will be held on Nov. 2–4, 2015, in Blacksburg, Virginia, USA. WiPDA provides a forum for device scientists, circuit designers, and application engineers from the Power Electronics and Electron Devices Societies to share technology updates, research findings, development experience and potential applications.

WiPDA will cover a broad range of WBG devices related research, from device design and manufacture, to power module packaging, and device applications. Its main topics include:

• Heteroepitaxial and bulk materials growth
• Gate dielectrics and surface passivation
• Device structures and fabrication techniques
• Device characterization and modeling
• Very-high efficiency or compact converters
• SOAs including short-circuit, spike and transient tolerance
• Harsh environment (high temperature) operation and reliability
• Packaging power modules and ICs
• Hard-switched and soft-switched applications
• Gate drive and other auxiliary circuits
• High-performance passive components
• Applications in renewable energy and storage, transportation, industrial drives, and grid power systems

Tutorials: Four tutorials on state-of-the-art device technology and applications will be offered in the afternoon of November 2nd, the presenters include Professor Johan Kolar, from ETH, Zurich, Switzerland, Professor Mark Johnson from the University of Nottingham, U.K., Professor Patrick McCluskey from the University of Maryland, MD, and Zan Huang from Transphorm.

Keynote Presentations: Eight keynote presentations, four each on November 3rd and 4th, will constitute the plenary sessions to be held at WiPDA. These talks will be given by prestigious experts from U.S. Federal Agencies, leading companies in the WBG semiconductor industry, and predominant members of academia. The speakers include: Joseph Weimer (U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory), Lynn Petersen (Office of Naval Research), Anant Agarwal (U.S. Department of Energy), Ranbir Singh (GeneSiC Semiconductor), Leo Lorenz (European Center for Power Electronics), Hiromichi Ohashi (University of Tokyo), Subhashish Bhattacharya (North Carolina. State University), Isik Kizilyalli (Avogy Inc.), John Shen (Illinois Institute of Technology), and Dr. Ljubisa Stevanovic from GE Global Research, NY.

Panel Discussion: A panel discussion will be held in the late morning of Nov 4th, with invited panelists from U.S. Federal Agencies, industry and academia that will share their opinions on the most popular topics related to wide-bandgap devices.

NEW Expanded Technical Exhibit: Thanks to a new partnership between the IEEE Power Electronics Society and the Power Sources Manufacturers Association (PSMA) an expanded technical exhibit will be part of the WIPDA program in 2015 on November 2nd and 3rd. A limited number of booths will be available, please contact the organizing committee, listed below, for further details.

Registration: Advanced registration is encouraged with discounted rate.

Please contact the committee for further details:

Provided by Dr. Fang Luo, Publicity Chair WiPDA 2015

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