he PSMA Magnetics Committee and IEEE PELS will conduct the sixth "Power Magnetics @ High Frequency" workshop in June 2021. The purpose and focus of this workshop are to identify the latest developments in magnetic materials, coil (winding) design, construction and fabrication, evaluation and characterization techniques and modelling and simulation tools. This is to target those power magnetics advancements that are deemed necessary by the participants to meet the technical expectations and requirements of new market applications to satisfy the 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 2021 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 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 2021 Power Magnetics @ High Frequency workshop morning session will open with a keynote presentation by Dr. Fang Luo of Stony Brook University followed by several lecture presentations regarding EMI issues caused by and solved by magnetic components. The afternoon session will be led by a keynote presentation by Dr Qiang Li of Virginia Tech's CPES followed by several presentations regarding integrated and coupled magnetics. In addition to the brief Q&A period after each individual 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 breakfast, lunch, and the networking hour at the end of the workshop an interactive session of tabletop technology demonstrations is planned, each addressing specific technical disciplines and capabilities consistent with the workshop agenda. Each technology demonstration station will include a ten-minute presentation at fifteen-minute intervals. Interaction between the attendees and the presenters is highly encouraged during this portion of agenda as a segue between the technical presentation sessions.

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 capabilities topic. The preferred topics for technical demonstration session should be related to the following themes: EMI issues, integrated magnetics, magnetic coupling and emerging magnetic materials and structures. We are limited to a total of 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 the topics of EMI issues associated with magnetic components or integrated magnetics, please contact the organizing committee through PSMA via e-mail to power@psma.com.

More details regarding the agenda for the workshop will become available on the PSMA website (www.psma.com/technical-forums/magnetics/workshop) over the coming months. Click here to be notified by email when registration opens.

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

If you or anyone in your company is interested in getting on the distribution list for future issues of PSMA UPDATE, please send e-mail to: power@psma.com. Be sure to include your name and the name of your company.