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PSMA Magnetics Committee and PELS TC2 High Frequency Magnetics Workshop
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.
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 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.
The 2025 Power Magnetics at High frequency Workshop was held on Saturday, March 15 in Atlanta, Georgia. The 2025 workshop marked the tenth 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 physical implementations of magnetics designs for emerging applications and markets. The session consisted of presentations by Minjie Chen of Princeton, Ranajit Sai of Tyndall, Jens Kehl of Wurth Elektronik, Sebastian Bachman of Tridelta Weichferrite, and John McDonald of Atlas Magnetics.
The afternoon technical lecture session focused on trends in designing and modelling magnetics for emerging applications and markets. The session consisted of presentations by Charles Sullivan of Dartmouth, Mike Ranjram of Arizona State University, Lukas Mueller of Micrometals and Michael Freitag of Yageo.
Student poster presentations by Jacob Anderson, Nick Kirkby of ASU, Todd Marzec of UPITT, Rachel Yang of MIT and Yibo Wang of City University of Hong Kong were available during the breakfast and lunch sessions.
Technology demonstrations by Andres Arias, Risha Yu of Premier Magnetics, Alfonso Martinez and Mark Christini of Open Magnetics and Ansys respectively, Mike Arasim of Fair-Rite Products, Efrain Bernal of Wurth Elektronik, Reddy Andapally Bharadwaj of CBMM, Wilmar Martinez of KU Leuven, John McDonald of Atlas Magnetics, Lukas Mueller of Micrometals, Ryu Nagahama of Iwatsu, Akihiko Saito of Daido Steel, Jens Schweickhardt of PE Systems, JC Sun of Bs&T, Jun Wang of University of Bristol, Tom Wilson and Andrija Stupar of SIMPLIS Technologies and Kosuke Yuasa of Daido Steel were available during the breakfast and lunch sessions.
The high energy of the 2025 magnetics workshop has paved the way for the start of a second decade of workshops, beginning in 2026.
Below are some pictures from the 2025 Workshop:
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