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2022 Power Electronics & Energy Conversion Workshop

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Tuesday, August 23

8:00 am – 8:30 am MT	Welcome Amy Halloran, Sandia National Laboratories; Charles Hanley, Sandia National Laboratories; Craig Lawton, Sandia National Laboratories
8:30 am – 8:40 am MT	Challenges of Power Electronics for the Future Grid – Reliability Concerns for the Future Robert Cummings, Red Yucca Power Consulting
8:40 am – 9:00 am MT	DOE TRAC Program Overview Andre Pereira, DOE Office of Electricity
9:00 am – 9:20 am MT	DOE Energy Storage Program Power Electronics Overview Imre Gyuk, DOE Office of Electricity
9:20 am – 9:30 am MT	DOE Applied Grid Transformation Solutions (AGTS) Overview Fernando Palma, DOE Office of Electricity
9:30 am – 9:50 am MT	ONR Materials Research for Passives/Military Applications Lynn Petersen, DoD Office of Naval Research
9:50 am – 10:10 am MT	DOE EERE Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) Systems Integration Program Overview Guohui Yuan, DOE Solar Energy Technologies Office
10:10 am – 10:30 am MT	Q&A and Panel Discussion

Tuesday, August 23, 10:30 am -12:00 pm MT Session Chairs	Michael Ropp, Sandia National Laboratories; Richard Fioavanti, Quanta Technology
10:30 am – 10:45 am MT	Review of Needs and Impacts of Fast-charging Networks Richard Fioravanti, Quanta Technology
10:45 am – 11:00 pm MT	Electrification of Everything Olga Lavrova, New Mexico State University
11:00 pm – 11:15 pm MT	Impact of Power Electronics on Grid Stability Zhenyu (Henry) Huang, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
11:15 am – 11:30 am MT	Power Electronics Enabled Resilient Networked Microgrids Rush D. Robinett III, Michigan Tech
11:30 am – 11:45 pm MT	The Optimal Control with Implicit Phase Coordination of a Collective of Wind Turbines Joseph Young, OptimoJoe
11:45 am – 12:00 pm MT	Q&A and panel discussion

Tuesday, August 23, 1:00 pm-2:30 pm MT Session Chairs	Introduction Ali Bidram, University of New Mexico; Steve Glover, Sandia National Laboratories; Alex Q. Huang, University of Texas Austin; Stan Atcitty, Sandia National Laboratories
1:00 pm – 1:15 pm MT	M4 Inverter: A PV + Storage Solid State Transformer Alex Q. Huang, University of Texas Austin
1:15 pm – 1:30 pm MT	Solid-State Power Substation (SSPS) Applications Radha Sree Krishna Moorthy, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
1:30 pm – 1:45 pm MT	Protection Scheme for Weather Resilient and Reconfigurable Solid-State Transformers Mehdi Abolhassani, Resilient Power
1:45 pm – 2:00 pm MT	Challenges for Solid-State Transformer for Industrial Applications Vijay Bhavaraju, Eaton
2:00 pm – 2:15 pm MT	Solid-State Transformers – Control Architectures to Enhance System Resilience Giri Venkataramanan, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2:15 pm – 2:30 pm MT	Q&A and panel discussion

Tuesday, August 23, 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm MT Session Chairs	Jack Flicker, Sandia National Laboratories Jacob Mueller, Sandia National Laboratories Madhu Chinthavali, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
2:30 pm – 2:45 pm MT	Multiport Bidirectional Solid-State Transformer Deepak Divan, Georgia Tech
2:45 pm – 3:00 pm MT	Solid State Transformer journey – from concept to pilot demonstration in a decade Subhashish Bhattacharya, North Carolina State
3:00 pm – 3:15 pm MT	Grid Tied Medium Voltage Systems: Topologies, Control and Architecture Rajendra Prasad Kandula, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
3:15 pm – 3:30 pm MT	Medium Voltage Power Converters and Their Controls for Enhanced Grid Integration of DERs Akanksha Singh, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
3:30 pm – 3:45 pm MT	Transmission and Distribution Controllability Opportunities and Modeling Challenges with Direct Current Systems and Solid-State Transformers Marcelo Elizondo, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
3:45 pm – 4:00 pm MT	Application of SST in a 380V bipolar DC Microgrid System Sijo Augustine, New Mexico State University
4:00pm – 4:15 pm MT	Q&A and panel discussion

Wednesday, August 24

Wednesday, August 24, 8:00 am – 10:00 am MT Session Chairs	Introduction Bob Kaplar, Sandia National Laboratories; Ozgur Aktas, Sandia National Laboratories
8:00 am – 8:20 am MT	Semiconductors Fundamentals for Higher Voltage, Higher Power, and Higher Efficiency and Reliability John Muth, North Carolina State
8:20 am – 8:40 am MT	Charge-Balanced Lateral Polar Junctions in GaN for Future Superjunction Power Devices Spyridon (Spyros) Pavlidis, North Carolina State
8:40 am – 9:00 am MT	Medium-Voltage SiC MOSFETs: Powering the EV Traction Inverter James Cooper, Purdue University, SONRISA
9:00 am – 9:20 am MT	Ultra-Wide-Bandgap Semiconductors Steve Goodnick, Arizona State University
9:20 am – 9:40 am MT	Reliability Testing and In-situ failure Analysis of Wide Bandgap Power Electronic Devices Moinuddin Ahmed, Argonne National Laboratory
9:40 am – 10:00 am MT	Micro to nanoscale thermal characterization of wide bandgap electronics Georges Pavlidis, University of Connecticut

Wednesday, August 24, 10:00 am – 11:30 am MT Session Chairs	Todd Monson, Sandia National Laboratories; Jane Lehr, University of New Mexico
10:00 am – 10:15 am MT	Time Dependent Dielectric Phenomenon Under High Electric Fields Clive Randall, Penn State University
10:15 am – 10:30 am MT	Moisture Ingress Models of Film Capacitors in PV Inverters Ramanathan Thiagarajan, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
10:30 am – 10:45 am MT	Enabling Soft Magnetics for Wide Bandgap (WBG) and Ultra-Wide Bandgap (UWBG) Power Electronics Paul Ohodnicki, University of Pittsburgh
10:45 am – 11:00 am MT	Modern Magnetic Material Model for PSPICE Coty Tran, Sandia National Laboratories
11:00 am – 11:15 am MT	Designing Soft Magnetic Materials Dale Huber, Sandia National Laboratory
11:15 am – 11:30 am MT	Q&A and panel discussion

Wednesday, August 24, 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm MT Session Chairs	Lee Gill, Sandia National Laboratories; Luke Yates, Sandia National Laboratories; Lee Rashkin, Sandia National Laboratories
12:30 pm – 12:45 pm MT	Medium Voltage PCB-based Bus Design and Insulation Coordination in a 10 kV SiC-based Power Electronics Building Blocks Joshua Stewart, Virginia Tech
12:45 pm – 1:00 pm MT	Packaging of WBG and UWBG Power Semiconductors Christna DiMarino, Virginia Tech
1:00 pm – 1:15 pm MT	Insulation, Thermal Management, and Passive Components: three remaining challenges for high power density converters Jin Wang, Ohio State University
1:15 pm – 1:30 pm MT	Reliability of GaN power devices: Current status and Future challenges Ozgur Aktas, Sandia National Laboratories
1:30 pm – 1:45 pm MT	Wirebondless SiC Power Module Packaging Arun V. Gowda, GE Research

Wednesday, August 24, 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm MT Session Chairs	Richard Baxter, Mustang Prairie Energy
2:00 pm – 2:15 pm MT	ARPA-E Funding Opportunities in Power Electronics Olga Blum Spahn, ARPA-E
2:15 pm – 2:30 pm MT	Gaining Market Access for Disruptive Technologies Scott Daniels, CSA Group
2:30 pm – 2:45 pm MT	R&D Opportunity in Power Conversion Systems Jackie Huynh, AES Clean Energy
2:45 pm – 3:00 pm MT	Distributed Smart Inverters: problem or solution? Leo Casey, X (Formerly Google-X)
3:00 pm – 3:30 pm MT	Q&A and panel discussion

3:30 pm – 4:00 pm MT

Closing Remarks
Charles Hanley, Sandia National Laboratories

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