Archived Videos
View the Power Electronics & Energy Conversion Workshop bios and abstracts booklet.
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 |