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

he 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. The workshop 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, those who are responsible to implement the most technologically advanced power magnetic components necessary to achieve higher power densities, specific physical aspect ratios such as low profile, higher power efficiencies and improved thermal performance. The target audience also includes 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.

The workshop will open with a keynote presentation by Peter Zacharius of the University of Kassel reviewing the fundamentals of analytical models for magnetic components. The morning session will consist of lecture presentations by Lukas Pniak of Safron Research and Technology Center covering modeling of capacitive coupling of planar transformers, Miroslav Vasic of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid applying Artificial Neural Networks and Digital Twin to optimize the design Dual Active Bridge transformers, and Reddy Andapally Bharawaj of CBMM addressing data collection and analysis to create accurate models for FEA simulations. There will be one additional presentation regarding qualifying measurement data for use in 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. Workshop attendees typically spend ten to fifteen minutes at each technology demonstration station viewing informal interactive presentations. The technology demonstration format facilitates Interaction between the attendees and the presenters as a segue from the morning technical presentation sessions to the afternoon lecture presentation session. Technology demonstrations are confirmed by Mike Arasim of Fair Rite, Ihsan Dalgic of Hioki, Tobias Trupp of Magnetec collaborating with JC Sun of Bs&T, Lukas Mueller of Micrometals collaborating with Jacob Lamphere of the University of Nebraska, Kevin Hermanns of PE Systems, Chris Ball of Rohde & Schwarz, Sebastian Bachman of Tridelta collaborating with Fritz Wohlrath of STS and Lucas Riebenweber of Coburg University, Joaquim Tristan of University of Pittsburgh, Marcin Kacki of Hitachi Energy collaborating with Lufan Zhou of Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Jun Wang of the University of Bristol, David Ruiz Gomez of Wϋrth Elektronik and Alfonso Martinez of Wϋrth Elektronik. We still have room for additional technology demonstrations. If anyone is interested to present a technology demonstration, we encourage them to contact the workshop organizing committee via e-mail to power@psma.com.

The afternoon session will begin with a keynote presentation by Asier Arruti Romero of Mondragon University on the development of unified magnetic loss model bridging empirical equations and physical insight. The keynote presentation will be followed by lecture presentations by Alfonso Martinez of Wϋrth Elektronik addressing modelling of stray capacitance and leakage inductance, Andrija Stupar of SIMPLIS Technologies speaking to the development of magnetic models for power electronics simulation and Chema Molina of Frenetic providing an update on the transition of magnetic design from design spreadsheets towards AI.

The workshop is still identifying students for student poster presentations. If you are a student and interested to present a poster, please contact the organizing committee through PSMA via e-mail to power@psma.com

Registration for the workshop is limited and is open at the following URL:

2026 Power Magnetics at High Frequency Workshop Registration

Any company interested in financially supporting the workshop as a partner can find more information regarding partner opportunities and benefits at the following URL:

2026 Magnetics Workshop Partnerships

Or contact the organizing committee through PSMA via e-mail to power@psma.com.

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