PSMA Magnetics Committee and PELS TC2 High Frequency Magnetics Workshop

Power Magnetics @ High Frequency
Saturday February 24 2024
Prior to APEC 2024
Long Beach Convention Center
Long Beach, CA 32819

The purpose and focus of the 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. The Workshop will target the advancements that are deemed necessary for power magnetics to meet the technical expectations and requirements of new and evolving market applications. These are driven by higher operating frequencies and emerging topologies together with continuous advances in circuits topologies and semiconductor 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, those who are 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 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 Mircometals addressing optimizing inductors based on choice of magnetic materials and David Zawacki of Cornell Dubilier addressing tradeoffs between capacitors and inductors.

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. 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 from the morning technical presentation sessions to the afternoon lecture presentation session. 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.

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

Any company interested in financially supporting the workshop as a partner can find more information regarding partner opportunities and benefits at the following URL:https://www.psma.com/2024_workshop_partnership

Should contact the organizing committee through PSMA via e-mail to power@psma.com.

The agenda for the 2024 Power Magnetics @ High Frequency is available on the PSMA website at the following URL: https://psma.com/2024_Power_Magnetics_at_High_Frequency_Agenda

Organizing Committee
Ed Herbert, PSMA
Rodney Rogers, Allstar Magnetics
George Slama, Wurth Elektronik
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.