Power Magnetics @ High Frequency
Saturday March 21 2026
Prior to APEC 2026
Henry B. Gonzales Convention Center
San Antonio, TX 78205

The PSMA Magnetics Committee and IEEE PELS is currently planning to conduct the eleventh Power Magnetics at High Frequency Workshop on Saturday, March 21, 2026, which is the day before and at the same venue as APEC 2026 in San Antonio, TX. The 2026 workshop will build on the ongoing dialogue established throughout the first ten workshops.

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

The target audiences for the 2026 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 theme of the 2026 Power Magnetics @ High Frequency will be measurements and data processing trends to improve analytic models and simulation models towards developing better design tools, enabling magnetics optimization for existing and emerging applications. The workshop will address various aspects of measurement methods and creation of analytical models employing equations re-enforced with empirical data.

As with past workshops, the morning and afternoon sessions will open with keynote presentations that cover a broad range of related issues followed by lecture presentations on specific applications or technical issues. In addition to the brief Q&A period after each individual lecture 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.

The morning session will consist of an overview of analytic and simulation models based on both measurement data and physics followed by presentations relative to use of data to create improved models for planar transformers, creating magnetic material models for FEA simulations from empirical data, use of artificial neural networks (ANN) and digital twin to optimize Dual Active Bridge (DAB) transformer design and qualifying measurement data to develop models.

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

The afternoon session will consist of an overview of creating core loss models from physics based data followed by presentations analytical models for leakage and stray inductance, magnetic models for simulation tools and magnetic design programs.

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 topic. We are limited to ten technology demonstration sessions.

The specifics for the workshop structure and the presentations for the workshop are currently in progress and are not finalized. If anyone is interested in presenting on characterization of magnetic components and the development of analytical models or simulation models 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.

If you or anyone in your company is interested in getting on the distribution list for future issues of PSMA UPDATE, please send e-mail to: power@psma.com. Be sure to include your name and the name of your company.