The International Technology Roadmap for Wide Bandgap Power Semiconductors (ITRW)

The webinar is being presented to provide the details of The International Technology Roadmap for Wide Bandgap Power Semiconductors (ITRW) that was co-initiated by IEEE PELS and organizations representing the USA, China, Japan, Europe, and UK in 2015. The webinar will provide information on where ITRW is going and details on the four different working groups within ITRW: 

• Materials and Devices (Chair: Andrew Binder)
• Packaging and Integration (Chair: Mark Johnson)
• System Integration and Application: GaN (Chair: Fred Wang)
• System Integration and Application: SiC (Chair: Jin Wang)

Speaker’s Bio:

Braham Ferreira has 40 years’ experience in power electronics R&D and the held three chairs in power electronics; first at the Rand Afrikaans University in South Africa, then he moved to The Netherlands where he held the chair in Power Electronics and Electrical Machines at the Delft University of Technology. Since 2019 he is Professor in Power Electronics at the University of Twente and is director of the ST power electronics group which is embedded in the Shenzhen Institute of Wide Bandgap Semiconductors, China. He served as President of the IEEE Power Electronics Society during 2015-6.
 

Peter Wilson is Professor of Electronics and Systems Engineering in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering. 
 

He received his BEng from Heriot-Watt University, MBA from Edinburgh Business School and PhD from the University of Southampton, and has industrial experience at Ferranti, GEC-Marconi, Analogy, Inc. prior to taking up his previous academic post of Associate Professor at Southampton in the School of Electronics and Computer Science. 
 

He is a Fellow of the IET, Senior Member of the IEEE, and is currently serving as Executive Vice President of the IEEE Power Electronics Society. He has been the Technical and General Chair of the IEEE Workshop on Behavioral Modelling and Simulation, and also held numerous leadership positions at conferences including ETS, EBTW and FDL. 
 

He has published more than 150 academic papers, three books and a patent, and has been principal investigator on numerous EPSRC grants. He is the supervisor of the Team Bath Racing Electric (TBRe) formula student electric racing team at Bath, co-supervisor of the Bath Zero Emissions Motorcycle racing team, and leads postgraduate teaching developments in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering.