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by Katherine A. Kim

WiPDA-Asia 2019 Held in Taipei, Taiwan

T

he IEEE Workshop on Wide
Bandgap Power Devices and
Applications in Asia (WiPDA-
Asia), sponsored by the IEEE Power
Electronics Society (PELS), was
held 23-25 May 2019 at the Howard
International House, Taipei, Taiwan.
With wide-bandgap (WBG) power
devices gaining traction in power
electronics, WiPDA-Asia serves as a
forum for engineers, designers, and
scientists to share technology up-
dates, research findings, develop-
ment experience, and application
knowledge on WBG devices.
The workshop started off with
three tutorials for WBG devices
that focused on device materials
(Prof. Jian-Jang Huang, National
Taiwan University, Taiwan), pack-
a g i n g ( P r of. L a i l i Wa n g, X i'a n

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Jiaotong Un iver sit y, Ch i na), a nd
design considerations (Prof. Jin
Wang, The Ohio State University,
United States).
There was also an excellent lineup
of 14 keynote speakers from both in-
dustry and academia. Keynote talks
included the following:
■■"Full Technology Validation of
600+V GaN Power Devices" (Dr.
Yifeng Wu, Transphorm Inc., Cali-
fornia, United States)
■■"Process Stability and Robust-
ness of GaN-Based Hybrid Drain
Embedded Gate Injection Transis-
tor" (Dr. Hideyuki Okita, Panasonic
Corporation, Japan)
■■"Reliability Engineering of Wide
Bandgap Based Power Converters"
(Prof. Frede Blaabjerg, Aalborg
University, Denmark).
There were also 27 papers and 22
posters presented on technical
research topics relating to WBG
power devices and applications dur-

ing the workshop. In between talks,
attendees could interact with ven-
dors at the exposition to discuss the
latest WBG power device products
and check out the latest equipment
for developing high-frequency con-
verter designs.
I n a dd it ion to t he tech n ica l
program, attendees had a chance
to socialize and enjoy Taiwanese
cuisine during the banquet at the
Grand Hotel, a landmark and his-
toric hotel of Taipei, Taiwan. Prof.
Yaow-Ming Chen, National Taiwan
University, was the general chair
of this workshop with Huang-Jen
Chiu, National Taiwan University
of Science and Technology, as the
cochair. More than 150 people at-
tended the workshop, and atten-
dance is likely to grow with the in-
creased use of WBG power devices
in the power electronics field (Fig-
ure  1). Next year, WiPDA-Asia will
be held in Osaka, Japan.

FIG 1 The attendees at the opening ceremony of WiPDA-Asia 2019. (Source: Terng-Wei Tsai.)

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