Last Tuesday, Xavier Perpiñà from the Institute of Microelectronics of Barcelona (IMB-CNM, CSIC) had the honour of delivering the invited talk that opened the 8th edition of the Electromagnetic Compatibility Conference (EMC), an event hosted by ITA · Instituto Tecnológico de Aragón and, for the first time, jointly organised between...
Master’s Thesis Defense on Gallium Oxide Power Devices at PDS Group
On October 6th, Fernando Pierre Gallarday Peve, PhD student at the Power Devices and Systems (PDS) group of IMB-CNM, presented his Master’s Thesis as part of the SAFEPOWER project. His work focused on the development of high-performance lateral power devices based on gallium oxide (Ga₂O₃), one of the most promising...
PDS Group presents advances in Ga₂O₃ technology at IWUMD2025
From September 22 to 24, members of the PDS Group — Amador Pérez-Tomás, Pierre Gallarday, and Aniol Vellvehi — took part in the 8th International Workshop on Ultra-Wide Bandgap Materials and Devices (IWUMD2025), held in Wroclaw, Poland. Amador Pérez-Tomás presented the work “Tuning Silicon Implantation for α-Ga₂O₃ and β-Ga₂O₃...
PDS Group Contributes to the SAAEI 2025 Seminar
From 2 to 4 July, PDS Group members Eusebio Rodrigo, Miquel Vellvehi, and José Rebollo participated in the XXXII Seminario Anual de Automática, Electrónica Industrial e Instrumentación (SAAEI 2025), held in Aranjuez, Spain. Eusebio Rodrigo presented a contribution entitled “Simulation of SEB-Resistant VDMOS Transistors”. This study explores the implementation...
Power semiconductor devices: the unknown muscles of microelectronics
Within the cycle “Dilluns de Ciència. Projectes de recerca per a millorar la nostra societat” (“Science Mondays. Research projects to improve our society”) organized by the “Residència d’Investigadors” and CSIC, Dr. Xavier Jordà from the PDS Group gave the talk entitled “Els dispositius semiconductors de potència: els músculs desconeguts...
Jornada de Grupos de Investigación BSH
Xavier Perpiñà from the PDS Group participated in the XX Jornada de Grupos de Investigación BSH on 04/06/2025, which took place at Campus Río Ebro in Zaragoza. During the event, Dr. Perpiñà presented the latest research results obtained in the framework of the PDS-BSH collaboration, focused on the studies...
Highlighting IMB-CNM’s role in the 37th IEEE International Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices and ICs
For the first time, researchers from the Power Devices and Systems Group (PDS) of IMB-CNM presented five contributions in the leading international conference on power semiconductor devices, the 37th IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Circuits and Power Semiconductor Devices (ISPSD). The event was held from June 1 to 5 in...
Invited Talk by Dr. Amador Pérez-Tomás at the CDE 2025 Conference
Dr. Amador Pérez-Tomás, member of the PDS Group and workpage leader of the Safepower Project, participated as an invited speaker at the Spanish Conference on Electron Devices (CDE 2025), held in Málaga on January 28–29. In his talk, titled Wide and Ultrawide Bandgap Semiconductors: There Also is Plenty of Room...