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PSMA and PELS Magnetics Committee High Frequency Magnetics Workshop

Power Magnetics @ High Frequency
Saturday March 16 2019
Prior to APEC 2019
Anaheim Convention Center
Anaheim, CA 92802

The PSMA Magnetics Committee and IEEE PELS will conduct the fourth "Power Magnetics @ High Frequency" workshop on Saturday, March16, 2019, which is the day before and at the same venue as APEC 2019 in Anaheim, CA.

The purpose and focus of this workshop is to identify the latest improvements in magnetic materials, coil (winding) design, construction and fabrication, evaluation and characterization techniques and modelling and simulation tools. This is to target the advancements that are deemed necessary by the participants for power magnetics in order to meet the technical expectations and requirements of new market applications for higher operating frequencies and emerging topologies that are being driven by continuous advances in circuits topologies and semi-conductor devices.

The target audiences for the 2019 Power Magnetics @ High Frequency workshop include the designers of power magnetic components for use in electronic power converters responsible to implement the most technologically advanced power magnetic components that are necessary to achieve higher power densities, specific physical aspect ratios such as low profile, higher power efficiencies and improved thermal performance. The target audiences also include people involved in the supply chain for the power magnetics industry ranging from manufacturers of magnetic materials and magnetic structures, fabricators of magnetic components, providers of modelling and simulation software as well as manufacturers of test and characterization equipment.

The 2019 Power Magnetics @ High Frequency will open with a keynote presentation by Gerry Hurley of the National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland providing a technical overview of the topics to be covered within the workshop. The keynote presentation will be complemented by a Q&A session to address specific details of interest of the workshop attendees.

The second session of the workshop will be a technical presentation session addressing various topics associated with ac power losses, in particular, the effect of core size and material. In addition to the brief Q&A period after each individual presentation there will be a panel of the presenters at the end of the session who will address topics requiring more detail as deemed by the workshop attendees.

During lunch, breakfast and the networking hour at the end of the workshop there will be an interactive session of table top technology demonstrations each addressing specific technical disciplines and capabilities consistent with the workshop agenda. Each technology demonstration station will include a ten-minute presentation at fifteen-minute intervals. Interaction between the attendees and the presenters is highly encouraged during this portion of agenda as a segue from the opening keynote presentation and the technical issues session.

If anyone would like to participate as a presenter for the technical demonstration session, please contact the organizing committee through PSMA via e-mail to power@psma.com with a description of your proposed technical capabilities topic. We are limited to nine technology demonstration sessions.

Based upon responses to the survey for the previous 2018 workshop, the fourth session of the workshop will be a technical presentations addressing topics associated with thermal management in magnetic components. In addition to the brief Q&A period after each individual presentation there will be panel of the presenters to address topics requiring more detail as deemed by the workshop attendees.
The specifics for the workshop structure and the presentations for the workshop are currently in progress and are not finalized. If anyone can support a strong position for a specific topic that would be of general interest to the magnetics and the power industries, please contact the organizing committee through PSMA via e-mail to power@psma.com.

More details regarding the agenda for the workshop as well as registration for the workshop will become available on the PSMA website (www.psma.com/technical-forums/magnetics/workshop) over the coming months.

Organizing Committee
    Khurram Afridi, University of Colorado Boulder
    Ali Bazzi, University of Connecticut
    Steve Carlsen, Raytheon
    Ed Herbert
    Rodney Rogers, All Star Magnetics
    Laili Wang, Xi'an Jiaotong University
    Fred Weber, Future Technology Worldwide
    Chuck Wild, Dexter Magnetics
    Matt Wilkowski, Intel

 

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