NEWS AND EVENTS

The PDS participants at the XXI Jornadas de Grupos de Investigación of the Bosch Siemens Hausgeräte (BSH) company in Zaragoza. From left to right, Miquel Tutusaus, Dr. Xavier Perpiñà end Conrad Ferrer. On June 3, 2026, PhD researchers Miquel Tutusaus and Conrad Ferrer presented the conclusions of their work conducted in collaboration with Bosch Siemens […]

Emma Solà, a PhD researcher in the Power Devices and Systems (PDS) Group at the Institute of Microelectronics of Barcelona (IMB-CNM, CSIC), completed a research stay at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft, The Netherlands) and Boschman Advanced Packaging Technology (Duiven, The Netherlands). The one-month stay, carried out in May 2026, was funded through a […]

Eric Serra during the public defense of his BSc Thesis at the Escola Politècnica Superior (EPS), University of Girona, on June 23, 2026. On June 23, 2026, Eric Serra successfully defended his Bachelor’s Thesis at the Escola Politècnica Superior (EPS) of the University of Girona (Montilivi Campus, Girona). His thesis, entitled “Development of a Specific […]

Dr. Xavier Jordà (PDS Group, IMB-CNM-CSIC) giving his Technical Lecture on power chip-embedding, with Dr. Alber Filbà (IREC) charing the EMERGE Summer School session. Between 8 and 12 June 2026, the 4th Summer School on Electrical Machines and Drives for Green Transportation Systems (EMERGE) took place. The event was organised by MUNER – Motorvehicle University […]

Emma Solà during her oral presentation at iMAPS-Iberia Summit 2026 On 11–12 June 2026, the first edition of the iMAPS-Iberia Summit 2026 & Microelectronics Workshop took place in Vilanova i la Geltrú, Barcelona, Spain. The Iberia Chapter of iMAPS (International Microelectronics Packaging and Assembly Society) is a leading non-profit association in the field of advanced […]

Eusebio Rodrigo during her oral presentation at EuroSimE 2026. From April 19 to 22, 2026, the 27th International Conference on Thermal, Mechanical and Multi-Physics Simulation and Experiments in Microelectronics and Microsystems (EuroSimE 2026) took place in Warsaw, Poland. The conference addressed results from fundamental research and industrial applications in thermal, mechanical, and multiphysics simulation and […]

Emma Solà during her oral presentation at CIPS 2026. From March 10 to 12, 2026, the 14th edition of the International Conference on Integrated Power Electronics Systems (CIPS) took place in Dresden, Germany. CIPS is the leading European conference for presenting the latest developments in integration power electronics system technologies, including device and converter assembly […]

The three SCAPE speakers, from left to right, Prof. Sergi Busquets (UPC), Dr. Xavier Jordà (IMB-CNM-CSIC) and Dr. Àlber Filbà (IREC). The workshop “Shared European Challenges in E‑Mobility”, organised by the EU‑funded Horizon Europe projects SCAPE (“Switching‑Cell‑Array‑based Power Electronics Conversion for Future Electric Vehicles”) and RHODaS (“Reinventing High‑Performance Power Converters for Heavy‑Duty Electric Transport”), was […]

Last Tuesday (18 November 2025), Dr. Xavier Perpiñá Giribet recently delivered an invited talk at Jornadas EMC that opened the 8th edition of the Electromagnetic Compatibility Conference (EMC). This conference bringed together researchers from Spain and Portugal in the field of electromagnetic compatibility. The event was organized by Instituto Tecnológico de Aragón (ITA) and took […]

  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 […]