Date: Saturday, March 19, 2022
Location: George R Brown Convention Center, Houston, TX
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM Registration, Technical Demonstrations and Breakfast
8:00 AM - 8:05 AM Introduction, Opening Remarks
8:05 AM - 8:50 AM Keynote: Capacitors for the Next Decade - materials, reliability and sustainability/life assessment; Tomas Zednicek, EPCI - European Passive Components Institute
8:50 AM - 9:40 AM Technical Session - Materials
- Academic Research on Capacitor Materials; Dr William Greenbank, Centre for Industrial Electronics (CIE), University of Southern Denmark
- MLCC - Differences for Class 1/Class 2 with a Special Look at the Terminations NME/BME; Frank Puhane, Wurth Elektronik
- Panel Q&A (Zednicek, Greenbank, Puhane)
9:40 AM - 10:00 AM Break
10:00 AM - 12:00 Noon Technical Session - Materials & Technologies
- Aluminum Electrolytic - Lytics, water based and others; Stephan Menzel, CapXon Europe
- Bulk Capacitor Technologies: High CV Ceramic, Tantalum (MnO2, Polymer, Wet types), Aluminum Electrolytic (Wet, Polymer, Hybrid types) and Super Caps; Daniel West/ Ron Demcko, KYOCERA - AVX
- Tantalum Capacitors; Cristina Mota Caetano, KEMET Electronics Corporation
- Supercapacitor Applications for Renewable Energy Systems and DC Microgrids; Nihal Kularatna, University of Waikato
- Panel Q&A (Menzel, West, Demcko, Mota Caetano, Kularatna)
12:00 Noon - 2:00 PM Technology Demonstration Session
- Performance Measurements of MLCC Under Real Conditions; Wurth Elektronik
- Supercapacitor Backup Solution for Mid Power Applications; Wurth Elektronik
- High-Q SMD Measurements of Various 0805 Components and DC Link Capacitor ESR and ESL Measurements; Zurich Instruments
- LCR Bridge Measurements with Different Capacitor Technologies; Rohde & Schwarz
- CapXon Europe
2:00 PM - 3:40 PM Technical Session - Environmental Influences on Capacitors
- How Capacitors Behave Unver Extreme Temperatures; Frank Puhane, Wurth Elektronik
- Rating MLCCs for AC Applications; John Bultitude, KEMET Electronics Corporation
- Packaging MLCCs for Higher AC Voltage Applications: Future Developments; Douglas Hopkins, North Carolina State University
- How Capacitors Behave Under High Humidity; Philip Lessner; KEMET Electronics Corporation
- Panel Q&A (Puhane, Bultitude, Hopkins, Lessner)
3:40PM - 4:00 PM Break
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Technical Session - Measurements
- Charcterization of the ESR and ESL of a DC Link Capacitor; Ronald Alexander, Zurich Instruments
- How Capacitors are Being Qualified and How to Interpret the Datasheet Values; Jon Izkue-Rodriguez, Würth Elektronik
- Aging and Incircuit Characterization of an Aluminum Electrolytic Capacitor; Marcus Sonst, Rohde & Schwarz
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Networking Hour
- Technology Demonstrations
- Magnetics/ Capacitor Rap Session; Moderator - Alexander Gerfer, Wurth Elektronik