IEEE PELS UK & Ireland Chapter PELS Day 2024 Hybrid Event
To celebrate PELS Day 2024, IEEE PELS UK and Ireland Chapter in collaboration with UK and Ireland Women in Engineering affinity group, Power and Energy Chapter, Industrial Applications Society Chapter, IEEE PELS TC11 Aerospace Power, and University of Leicester, is delivering a hybrid event with distinguished and guest lectures.
PELS Distinguished Lecture 1
Silicon Carbide Power Semiconductors: Device Modelling, Gate Drivers and Application, Prof Dimosthenis Peftitsis Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Abstract: Silicon Carbide (SiC) power semiconductors exhibit superior electrothermal characteristics compared to Silicon counterparts. Lower conduction and switching losses, higher operating temperatures and frequencies will impact the design and operation of power converters. Up to date, SiC MOSFETs are the most successful device technology. The first part of this lecture will provide the fundamental design and operating principles of SiC MOSFETs, as well as their static and dynamic modelling by utilizing experimental data. To accelerate simulation times, a real-time hardware-in-the-loop dynamic model of high-voltage 3.3 kV SiC MOSFETs will be presented. The second part will introduce the gate driving principles for SiC MOSFETS, and operational limitations using passive gate drivers. A particular focus will be placed on active and adaptive gate drivers that can shape switching and conducting operation of SiC MOSFETs for enhancing reliability. Finally, an overview of power electronics applications that can be benefited by employing SiC power semiconductors will be presented.
About the Speaker
Dimosthenis Peftitsis (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Diploma degree (Hons.) in electrical and computer engineering from Democritus University of Thrace. Xanthi, Greece, in 2008, and the Ph.D. degree from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, in 2013. In his final year of studies, he spent six months in ABB Corporate Research, Västerås, Sweden, writing his thesis. From 2013 to 2014, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher involved in the research on SiC converters with the Department of Electrical Energy Conversion, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and from 2014 to 2016, he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Lab for High Power Electronics Systems, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, where he was involved in dc-breakers for multiterminal HVDC systems. He is Professor of Power Electronics in the Department of Electric Energy with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway, where he has been a Faculty Member since May 2016.
He has authored or co-authored more than 100 journal and conference papers, and he is the co-author of one book chapter and the presenter of 7 conference tutorials. His research interests lie in the area of power converters design using WBG devices (e.g., SiC and GaN) including adaptive drive circuits, high-performance device models, dc-breaker design for MV and HVDC systems, as well as reliability enhancement of high-power semiconductor devices, including reliability of SiC power switches. Professor Peftitsis is Associate Editor in the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics and IET Power Electronics, and he was a Member of the Outstanding Academic Fellows Programme at NTNU in 2019-2023. Since 2018 he also serves as a member of the EPE International Scientific Committee. He is currently the Chairman on the Norway IEEE joint Power Electronics Society/Industry Applications Society/Industrial Electronics Society Chapter.
PELS Distinguished Lecture 2
Silicon Carbide Power Semiconductors: Device Modelling, Gate Drivers and Application, Dr Ivana Kovacevic-Badstuebner ETH Zurich
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Special Guest Presentation 1
Pathways to an Academic Career: Building a Strong Track Record, Prof Gen Li Technical University of Denmark
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About the Speaker
Gen Li received a BEng degree from Northeast Electric Power University, China, in 2011, an MSc degree from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2013 and the PhD from Cardiff University, Cardiff in 2018.
He is an Associate Professor at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark. From 2013 to 2016, he has been a Marie Curie Early Stage Research Fellow funded by the European Commission’s MEDOW project. His research interests include control and protection of HV and MV DC technologies, offshore wind, offshore energy islands, reliability modelling and evaluation of power electronics systems.
Dr Li is a Chartered Engineer in the UK, a Young Editorial Board Member of Applied Energy, an Associate Editor of the CSEE Journal of Power and Energy Systems and IET Energy Systems Integration, an Editorial Board Member of CIGRE ELECTRA and Global Energy Interconnection and an IET Professional Registration Advisor. His PhD thesis received the First CIGRE Thesis Award in 2018. He is now a Steering Committee Member of CIGRE Denmark NGN, a Member of CIGRE Working Group B4.96 and a Member of IEEE PELS Publicity Committee.
Special Guest Presentation 2
The Power of Networking with Women, Dr Ruth Lennon Atlantic Technological University Letterkenny
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