NEWS AND EVENTS

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 […]

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 focused on the investigation and […]

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.

Last 12 – 14 March the members of the PDS Group Mariana Raya, Emma Solà and Xavier Jordà, participated in the 13th edition of the International Conference on Integrated Power Electronics Systems, CIPS 2024, held in Düsseldorf, Germany. We presented the contribution entitled “Estimation of thermo-mechanical Anand model parameters of die-attach materials for power electronics […]

ePowered RACING is a team of 19 engineering students specializing in Mechanical, Electronic, and Electrical disciplines who work at the Barcelona School of Engineering (EEBE-UPC). They are passionate about both motorcycling and engineering, and they compete in the MotoStudent International

The industrial chair EFICIENCE hosted the highly successful scientific workshop SMIPPE in Tarbes (France), organized by Prof. Paul-Étienne Vidal from ENIT Tarbes. The event gathered leading experts and researchers to discuss advancements in power devices and related technologies. A highlight of the workshop was the insightful guest lecture by Researcher of PDS Group  Xavier Perpiñà, […]

November, 2023 Emma Solà and Xavier Jordà from PDS Group particiapted in the Electronic Materials & Packaging in Space (EMPS) symposium held at ESTEC (ESA) in Noordwijk, The Netherlands, from 21-23 November 2023. Emma Solà presented her work entitled:  High-Temperature Aging Tests of Silver Sintering Materials used as Die-attach Layers. Previously, Emma and Xavier also […]