Power Magnetics @ High Frequency
Saturday March 6, 2027
Prior to APEC 2027
Ernest N. Morial Convention Center
New Orleans, LA 70130

he PSMA Magnetics Committee and IEEE PELS is currently planning to conduct the twelfth Power Magnetics at High Frequency Workshop on Saturday, March 6, 2027, which is the day before and at the same venue as APEC 2027 in New Orleans, LA. The 2027 workshop will build on the ongoing dialogue established throughout the first eleven 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 2027 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 2027 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.

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.

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 theme of the morning session will be thermal design of magnetics and theme of the afternoon session will be testing methods and specifications. The presenters for the workshop are currently being identified. If anyone is interested in presenting on any aspect of thermal design or test methods and test specifications, 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.

The 2026 Power Magnetics at High frequency Workshop was held on Saturday, March 21 in San Antonio, Texas. The 2026 workshop marked the eleventh annual workshop continuing the tradition of informative and synergistic dialogue between members of the magnetics design community that began in 2016 at Long Beach California.

The morning technical lecture session focused on developing analytical and simulation models from empirical data. The session consisted of presentations by Peter Zacharias of the University of Kassel, Lucas Pniak of SAFRON, Daniel Rios Linares of UPM, Alfonso Martinez of Wϋrth Elektronik, and Marek Rylko of SMA Magnetics.

The afternoon technical lecture session focused on trends in automating design techniques for magnetics. The session consisted of presentations by Asier Arruti Romero of Mondragon University, Reddy Andapally Bharadwaj of CBMM, Andrija Stupar of SIMPLIS Technologies and Chema Molina of Frenetic.

Technologies Student poster presentations by Nick Kirkby of ASU, Xuan Wang of UPenn, Priya of the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Dheeraj Etta of Cornell University and Pierre Küster of the University of Kassel were available during the breakfast and lunch sessions.

Technology demonstrations by Maira de Paula Nunes of CBMM, Kamyar Ahmadi and Mo Khodadadi of Eneira, Mike Arasim of Fair-Rite Products, Ihsan Dalgic of Hioki, Ryu Nagahama of Iwatsu, Tobias Trupp and JC Sun of Magnetec and Bs&T respectively, , Lukas Mueller of Micrometals, Kevin Hermans of PE Systems, Andreas Muesing and Tom Wilson of SIMPLIS Technologies, Sebastian Bachman, Fritz Wohlrath and Lukas Reißenweber of Tridelta, STS and Coburg University respectively, Jun Wang of University of Bristol, Joaquin Tristan of the University of Pittsburgh, Daniel Rios Linares and Marcin Kacki of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and Hitachi Energy respectively, David Ruiz Gomez of Wϋrth Elektronik and Alfonso Martinez of Wϋrth Elektronik were available during the breakfast and lunch sessions.

The high energy and record attendance of the 2026 magnetics workshop has paved the way for the start of a second decade of workshops.

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