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2024 Power Magnetics @ High Frequency Workshop

 

Registration for the 2024 Power Magnetics @ High Frequency Workshop on Saturday February 24, 2024 at the Long Beach Convention Center in Long Beach, CA is now open. 

 

2024 Power Magnetics @ High Frequency Workshop
Saturday February 24, 2024
Room 104ABC, Long Beach Convention Center in Long Beach, CA

 

Registration Rates (Early Bird Pricing Deadline: Friday, January 12, 2024 Extended to Friday January 19, 2024)*

  • Member Early/ Regular     $295/ $345
  • Non-Member Early/ Regular  $395/ $445

Previous workshops have sold out, so early registration is encouraged. There will be a $25 surcharge for onsite registration, if seating is available.

Breakfast, lunch and a reception are included in the workshop registration. 

 

Partnership Opportunities available. Sign up to be a Workshop Partner Please contact the organizing committee through via e-mail to power@psma.com for more information. Click here for the pricing and benefits:

Platinum Partner                            
$2500 

  • Company logo in web page linked to URL of choice
  • Company recognition at entrance
  • Company logo on daily introduction and break slides
  • Company recognition in ‘blast e-mail’ announcing registration
  • Company logo on social media promotion
  • One free registration
  • Additional registrations at preferred PSMA rate
  • Company supplied logo can be displayed within workshop
  • Company exhibit table by registration desk onsite
  • Company may provide branded lanyards for participants (~150 pcs)

Gold Partner      
$1500 

  • Company logo in web page linked to URL of choice
  • Company recognition at entrance
  • Company logo on daily introduction and break slides
  • Company recognition in ‘blast e-mail’ announcing registration
  • Company logo on social media promotion
  • Register at preferred PSMA rate

 

2024 Workshop Partners:

Platinum Partners     Media Partner
 
       
   

Power Magnetics @ High Frequency
Saturday February 24 2024
Prior to APEC 2024
Long Beach Convention Center
Long Beach, CA 90802

The PSMA Magnetics Committee together with IEEE PELS are currently planning to conduct the ninth "Power Magnetics @ High Frequency" Workshop on Saturday, February 24, 2024, which is the day before and at the same venue as APEC 2024 in Long Beach, CA. The 2024 workshop returns to the site of the inaugural workshop held in 2016 in Long Beach California. and plans to build on the success of the 2023 workshop held before APEC 2023 in Orlando Florida earlier this year.

The purpose and focus of this workshop are 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 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 2024 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 2024 Power Magnetics @ High Frequency workshop will be the design of optimal magnetics across applications and environments. 

The workshop will open with a keynote presentation by Johan Kolar and Jannik Schafer of ETH Zentrum covering the opportunities for new magnetics designs to address a broad range of market driven technology trends across automotive and data center applications. The morning session will consist of lecture presentations by Jonas Muehlethaler of Frenetic addressing design and optimization of magnetics for different applications, Qiang Li of CPES addressing magnetics for VRM applications, Lukas Mueller of Micrometals addressing optimizing inductors based on choice of magnetic materials and David Zawacki of Cornell Dubilier addressing tradeoffs between capacitors and inductors. 

During the provided breakfast, lunch and the networking hour at the end of the workshop there will be an interactive session of tabletop technology demonstrations and posters 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. Interaction between the attendees and the presenters is highly encouraged during this portion of agenda as a segue between the morning and afternoon technical presentation sessions.

Technology demonstrations are confirmed by JC Sun of Bs&T, Bharadwaj Reddy Andapally of CBMM, Mohammad Khodadadi of EnaChip, Mike Arasim of Fair Rite, Arturo Mediano of HF Magic Labs, Lukas Mueller of Micrometals, Andrija Stupar of Simplis Technologies, Juris Vencels of Trafolo, Frank Puhane of Wurth Elektronik and George Slama of Wurth Elektronik. We still have room for some additional technology demonstrations. If anyone is interested to present a technology demonstration, they are encouraged to contact the workshop organizing committee via e-mail to power@psma.com.

The afternoon session will begin with a keynote presentation by Charles Sullivan of Dartmouth addressing special design issues ranging from thermal design, dielectric design, and insulation design. The keynote presentation will be followed by lecture presentations by Roman Jamy of Yageo addressing multi-dimensional optimization relative to electrical, thermal, and commercial objectives, Zhicheng Guo of Arizona State University addressing partial discharge characterization for high frequency transformers and Subhashish Bhattacharya of North Carolina University addressing thermal design issues for solid state transformers. 

If your company is interested in financially supporting the workshop as a partner, please contact the organizing committee through PSMA via e-mail to power@psma.com. Visit  https://www.psma.com/2024_workshop_partnership to learn more about the benefits of being a workshop partner.

Registration for the workshop is limited and is open at www.psma.com/power-magnetics-high-frequency-workshop-2024-registration

Organizing Committee 
Ed Herbert, PSMA 
Rodney Rogers, Allstar Magnetics
George Slama, Wurth Elektronik
Matt Wilkowski, EnaChip
 

Power Magnetics @ High Frequency
Saturday March 18 2023
Prior to APEC 2023
Orange County Convention Center
Orlando, Florida

The PSMA Magnetics Committee and IEEE PELS held the 8th "Power Magnetics @ High Frequency" Workshop on Saturday, March 18, 2023, on the day before and at the same venue as APEC 2023 in Orlando, FL. 

The morning technical lecture session focused on "Power Magnetics Design - Milliwatts to Kilowatts" with presentations by Mike Ranjram, Arizona State University; Khurram Afridi, Cornell University; Harold Eicher, Champs Technology; Cem Som, Wurth Elektronik; and Ranajit Sai, Tyndall.

The afternoon technical lecture session focused on "Addressing Specific Requirements for Power Magnetics Design" with presentations by Victor Quinn, Exxelia; Doug Eaton, Triad Magnetics; Darryl Lallande, Elantas; and Mahmoud Mansour, Utah State University.

Student poster presentations by Shaokang Luan, Aalborg University; Zhicheng Guo, University of Texas at Austin; Sounak Maji, Cornell University; and Firehiwot Guara, Cornell University were available during the breakfast and lunch sessions.

Technology demonstrations by Mike Schnecker, Rohde & Schwarz; Mike Ranjram, Arizona State University; Lukas Mueller, Micrometals; JC Sun, Bs&T; Mike Arasim, Fair-Rite; Bharadwaj Reddy Andapally, CBMM; Aminul Mehedi, CM Materials; Tom Wilson and Andrija Stupar, SIMPLIS Technologies; Lucas Nicieza Moro, Frenetic; Lukas Hoelscher, Würth Elektronik eiSos; and Jon Izkue Rodriguez, Würth Elektronik eiSos were available during the breakfast and lunch sessions.

The technical program closed with a summary overview "Best of the Best" by George Slama of Wurth Elektronik of the technical presentations, poster presentations and technology demonstrations.

2023 Power Magnetics @ High Frequency Workshop Panel

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2023 Power Magnetics @ High Frequency Workshop

2023 Power Magnetics @ High Frequency Workshop

2023 Power Magnetics @ High Frequency Workshop

Workshop attendance in 2023 returned to pre-pandemic levels building on the successful return at the 2022 workshop in Houston, TX to the in-person format. In 2024 the workshop returns to Long Beach, CA the site of the inaugural workshop in 2016. More details regarding the agenda for the 2024 Power Magnetics @ High Frequency Workshop as well as registration for the workshop are available above.

2023 Power Magnetics @ High Frequency Workshop

Organizing Committee
Steve Carlsen, Independent
Ed Herbert, PSMA
Chema Molina, Frenetic
Rodney Rogers, Allstar Magnetics
George Slama, Wurth Elektronik
Chuck Wild, Dexter Magnetic Technologies Inc.
Matt Wilkowski, EnaChip