On January 30, 2025, Adrià Aroca and Pau Novoa passed their final BsC Project at “Escola d'Enginyeria de Barcelona Est” (EEBE) of the “Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya” (UPC). Adrià and Pau developed the power and control stages of a 300V – 30A two-level inverter intended for power devices analysis under...
Kick-off meeting of SAFEPOWER project
On October 24th and 25th, the SAFEPOWER (Safer and More Reliable WBG/UWBG-based MVDC Power Converters) project kick-off meeting took place at the Institute of Microelectronics of Barcelona.This Horizon Europe project is led and coordinated by the IMB-CNM through Dr. Xavier Perpinyà from PDS Group. This project will provide key digital,...
Jornada de Grupos de Investigación BSH
Xavier Perpiñà and Conrad Ferrer from the PDS Group participated in the XIX Jornada de Grupos de Investigación BSH on 04/09/2024, which took place at Campus Río Ebro in Zaragoza. During the event, Dr. Perpiñà and C. Ferrer presented the latest research results obtained in the framework of the PDS-BSH...
Members of PDS Group participate in the TWHM2024 congress
From August 26th to 29th, Xavier Perpiñà, Ferran Bonet, and Conrad Ferrer from the PDS Group attended the 15th Topical Workshop on Heterostructure Microelectronics (TWHM 2024) held in Sendai, Japan. They presented an invited paper titled "Die-Level Functional Off-Chip Characterization of Power Devices Using Optical Techniques" during the "Power2" session....
International Day of Women in Engineering (#INWED24)
On the International Day of Women in Engineering (June 23), the Institute of Microelectronics of Barcelona highlighted the work of eight women engineers, seven of them researching in micro and nanotechnologies with applications in health, energy, environment, semiconductor manufacturing, or chip design; and one working in the field of Administration...
Invited talk: Introduction to Advanced PCBs
In the framework of the SCAPE Project General Assembly, on June the 14th, Thomas Gottwald, CTO at Schweizer Electronic AG, presented the talk “Introduction to Advanced PCBs”. Mr. Gottwald made a very interesting review of the most advanced PCB tecnologies from Schweizer than can be used in modern power systems...
Mid-term General Assembly of HE SCAPE project at IMB-CNM facilities
The Horizon Europe SCAPE project (Switching-cell-array-based power electronics conversion for future electric vehicles) held its mid-term meeting last 14-15 July at the IMB-CNM-CSIC facilities. In this meeting were presented the first results of the project concerning power systems integration, multi-level converter prototypes and control solutions. The participation of PDS Group...
Participation in the European PhD School on Power Electronics, Electrical Machines, Energy Control and Power Systems (Gaeta, Italy)
PDS group members Miquel Tutusaus and Conrad Ferrer attended the European PhD School on Power Electronics, Electrical Machines, Energy Control and Power Systems, celebrated between 27 - 31 of May 2024 in the city of Gaeta, Italy, where they also presented their work at the poster session.