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AiSHi Capacitors
Nick Visic
6046 Fm 2920 #205
Houston, TX  77379
Telephone: 281-235-0294
E-mail: nick.visic@aishi.us
Web Site: www.aishi.us


AiSHi Capacitors, a part of The Aihua Group, is a technology company focused on the design, development, manufacturing and sales of aluminum electrolytic capacitors.  Established in 1985, with manufacturing facilities in China, AiSHi Capacitor makes over 12,000,000,000 capacitors annually including Radial Leaded, Surface Mount, Snap In, Screw Terminal, Radial Polymer, SMT Polymer and Multi-Layer Polymer capacitors.

AiSHi Capacitor has an enterprise objective of environmental protection and sustainable development and focuses on energy and resource efficiency and recycling in their manufacturing processes.  Their manufacturing process have been certified to meet ISO14001 specifications.

 


David Arnold
University of Florida
213 Larsen Hall
Gainesville, FL  32611-6200
Telephone: 352-392-4931
E-mail: darnold@ufl.edu
Web Site: www.img.ufl.edu/darnold


David P. Arnold is the George Kirkland Engineering Leadership professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Florida. He also holds an affiliate appointment in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. He is currently Associate Chair for Research for the ECE department and also Deputy Director of the NSF Multi-functional Integrated System Technology (MIST) Center. His research focuses on magnetic thin/thick films and magnetic micro/nanostructures; magnetic microsystems and electromechanical transducers; and compact (<100 W) power/energy systems.

Dr. Arnold is an active participant in the magnetics and MEMS communities, serving on conference committees for the MEMS, PowerMEMS, Hilton Head, Transducers, Sensors, MMM, and Intermag meetings. He was the technical program co-chair of the 2009 PowerMEMS and is currently on the editorial board of J. Micromechanics and Microengineering and Micromachines. His work has been recognized with several prestigious awards, including the 2008 Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering (PECASE) and the 2009 DARPA Young Faculty Award. Dr. Arnold is the current UF chapter faculty advisor and member of the Eta Kappa Nu ECE engineering honor society. He is also a Senior Member of IEEE and a member of Tau Beta Pi.

 


CapXon Technology Limited
Stephan Menzel
5F, 157, Sec. 2, Datong Rd.
Xizhi Dist. New Taipei City 22183
Taiwan R. O. C.
Telephone: +49-7121-1452703
E-mail: sales@capxon-usa.com
Web Site: www.capxongroup.com



Founded in Taiwan in 1980, the CapXon Group has become a leading manufacturer of electrolytic capacitors. The product portfolio covers the full range of liquid electrolytic, solid conductive polymer and hybrid conductive polymer capacitors.

CapXon has developed technology to reliably achieve higher performance. Their broad product portfolio can support any kind of application including consumer electronics, industrial systems, renewable energy, automation and drives, medical applications, automotive, lighting, communication, smart devices and more. CapXon has always invested in the future and steadily increased the production of capacitors to meet increasing market demand.

 


DiscoverEE
Shishir Rai
100 Pine St Suite 1250
San Francisco, CA 94111
Telephone: 310-906-7933
E-mail: rai@discoveree.io 
Web Site: www.discoveree.io



DiscoverEE is a market research and product intelligence platform that serves the power electronics industry. DiscoverEE deploys a team of software engineers, data scientists, device physicists, hardware engineers and business managers who combine their expertise one product category at a time.  DiscoverEE believes in providing powerful, data-driven product and market insight to hardware designers, engineers, marketers, sellers and purchasers to enable them to design and purchase awesome products.

By creating detailed and objective standardized product databases, DiscoverEE helps organize the unstructured hardware product landscape.  Their databases offer an unprecedented level of insight to makers and users of hardware products enabling them to focus on things that matter most to them.

 


Marc Herniter
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
5500 Wabash Ave
CM123
Terre Haute, IN  47803-3920
Telephone: 812-249-0159
E-mail: herniter@rose-hulman.edu
Web Site: www.rose-hulman.edu


Dr. Marc Herniter specializes in analog electronics, power electronics and automotive systems and has taught an introductory-level, model-based systems design course in China.  He has served as an expert witness on several high-profile cases involving Porsche Cars North America, Texas Instruments and Samsung Electronics.  Dr. Herniter advises Rose-Hulman's NXP Cup Model-Based Design club and has implemented high school autonomous vehicle competition that enbable students to learn design process, microcontrollers, programming and image recognition.

Dr.Herniter has experience in analog electronic systems, hybrid electric vehicle systems, switching power supplies and system simulation with SPICE and MATLAB.  He received the Outstanding Faculty Advisor award for the ChallengeX Advanced Automotive Vehicle Competition and received degrees from Boston University and the University of Michigan.

 


Ideal Power
Jeffrey Knapp
5508 Highway 290 West
Suite 120
Austin, TX 78735
Telephone: 512-697-3904
E-mail: jeff.knapp@idealpower.com
Website: www.idealpower.com


Ideal Power is pioneering the development of its broadly patented bidirectional power switches, creating highly efficient and ecofriendly energy control solutions for electric vehicle, electric vehicle charging, renewable energy, energy storage, UPS / data center, solid-state circuit breaker and other industrial and military applications.

The company is focused on its patented Bidirectional, Bipolar Junction Transistor (B-TRAN™) semiconductor technology. B-TRAN™ is a unique double-sided bidirectional AC switch able to deliver substantial performance improvements over today's conventional power semiconductors. Ideal Power believes B-TRAN™ modules will reduce conduction and switching losses, complexity of thermal management and operating cost in medium voltage AC power switching and control circuitry.

 


Pacergy LLC
Thomas Foulkes, Ph.D.
1503 Ohio Street
Terre Haute, IN  47807
Telephone: 812-240-3475
E-mail: foulkes@pacergy.com

Pacergy is an engineering company endeavoring to create a more sustainable, electrified future.  Pacergy focuses primarily on serving customers electrifying large systems such as data centers, off-road vehicles, renewable systems and aircraft.

Pacergy was founded in October of 2020 by Thomas Foulkes after finishing his PhD in Electrical Engineering, Power Electronics and Phase-Change Heat Transfer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.  Pacergy offers consulting services to customers and participates in a number of workshops focusing on electrifying the future and entrepreneurship.

 


Premium PSU
Miguel Angel Fernández
C/ C/ Dolors Aleu, 19-21, Pl. 2ª
L'Hospitalet de Llobregat
Barcelona 08908 Spain
Telephone: +34932232685
E-mail: mafernandez@premiumpsu.com
Web Site: https://www.premiumpsu.com

Premium PSU offers power conversion systems to the industrial market for high-tech machinery, transportation, energy or extreme environments applications. With over 40 years of experience and a highly trained team, Premium PSU has become a technological leader in power solutions.

Premium PSU's product range includes DC/DC converters, uninterrupted power supplies, DC/AC inverters, AC/DC power supplies and any solution that requires high reliability from 50W to 60kW. In addition to standard products, they have developed over 900 custom-made designs over the years guaranteeing quality starting in the design and throughout the manufacturing process with the most advanced testing systems. All projects, from the concept, design to the final product, are carried out in Barcelona.

 


Wise-Integration
Thierry Bouchet
87 rue Philémon Laugier
83400 Hyères
France
Telephone: +33665173829
E-mail: thierry.bouchet@wise-integration.com
Web Site: www.wise-integration.com

Wise-Integration is a fabless company that develops innovative GaN integrated solutions to minimize power supplies and improve energy efficiency.  Headquartered in France, Wise-Integration spun off from CEA-LETI in 2020.

Their products combine a GaN component (WiseGan) and an advanced AC-DC system architecture with software (WiseWare).  The result is a charger up to three times smaller, three times more energy efficient and three times lighter than chargers based on traditional technologies ranging from 30 Watts to 3 Kilowatts.

Wise-Integration targets three markets – consumer, e-mobility and data center servers. Wise-Integration manages all the industrialization flow from device specification to system assembly. Reference designs are based on patented system architecture and then are adapted to the specifications of the customer.

 


Yole, Inc.
Jeffrey Perkins
300 Brickstone Square
Suite 201
Andover, MA 01810
Telephone: 650-906-7877
E-mail: jeff.perkins@yole.fr
Web Site: www.yole.fr


Yole, Inc. is a market research firm for the semiconductor industry with a strong focus on compound semiconductors and power.  Yole provides market research, technology analysis, strategy consulting, targeted media and financial advisory services.  Yole's field of expertise includes Photonics and Sensing, Power and Wireless and Semicondoctors and Software.

Yole's team of analysts include PhD and MBA qualified industry experts who collect and analyze information to identify trends, challenges and emerging markets in a competitive environment.  Over the past 20 years Yole has worked on more than 2,300 projects, interacted with technology professionals and high level opinion makers from the main players in the industry, conducting over 5,000 interviews per year.

 

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