NEWS AND EVENTS

  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 emerging semiconductor materials for next-generation […]

  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 MESFET Transistors”, which focuses on […]

  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 of a buffer layer in […]

  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 de la microelectrònica” (“Power semiconductor […]

  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 for understanding reliability limits in […]

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 Kumamoto, Japan, and brought together […]

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 at the Wide Side, Dr. […]

On April 8, Mariana Raya, a PhD studet of the PDS Group, participated in the 26th edition of the International Conference on Thermal, Mechanical and Multi-Physics Simulation and Experiments in Microelectronics and Microsystems (EuroSimE), held in Utrech, The Netherlands. Mariana presented the contribution entitled “Analysis of the Magnetic Fields Only Currents (MFCO) COMSOL interface for […]

Power converters are key to the energy transition, and their main component is the power module. Emma Solà is a predoctoral researcher in PDS group, and the focus of her thesis is on improving the connections of the devices within the modules, in order to enhance their efficiency and reliability. She is studying the behaviour […]

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 true operation conditions. This job […]

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, enabling and emerging technologies for […]

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 collaboration, focused on improving the […]

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. Additionally, Xavier Perpiñà served as […]

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 at the IMB-CNM. Among them, […]

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 integration. Among them, he highlighted […]