9 March 2015

IR presenting power management solutions at APEC

At the 30th IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC 2015) in Charlotte, NC, USA (15-19 March), International Rectifier Corp (IR) of El Segundo, CA, USA (now part of Technologies AG of Munich, Germany) will showcase its latest power management solutions.

IR engineering and sales staff will demonstrate the firm's latest energy-saving and high-power-density enabling technologies and products in booth 705.

In addition, IR's power management experts will participate in the following conference events:

16 March

• Professional Education Seminar S17 (8:30am-12pm) – 'Practical Application of 600V GaN HEMTs in Power Electronics' by Eric Persson, executive director, Applications and Marketing.

17 March

• Technical Session T01: Isolated DC-DC Converters (8:30am-12pm, Room 1) – co-chairs Wenduo Liu (manager, GaN Applications) and Wisam Moussa (principal field applications engineer).

• Industry Session IS01 (8:30-11:55am) – 'State of Demonstrated HV GaN Reliability and Further Requirements' by Tim McDonald (VP, GaN Technology Development).

18 March

• Technical Session T08: Integrated and HF DC-DC Converters (8:30-10:10am, Room 1) – co-chair Zhigang Liang (senior staff applications engineer).

• Technical Session T15: 'Renewable Microgrids' (2-5:30pm, Room 1) – co-chair Haihua Zhou (senior staff GaN Applications engineer).

• Technical Session T18: 'LED Drivers' (2-5:30pm, Room 4) – co-chair Zobair Roohani (senior field applications engineer).

• Technical Session T19: 'Non-Isolated DC-DC Converters' (2-5:30pm, Room 5) – co-chair Cahit Gezgin (senior field applications engineer).

19 March

• Technical Session T24: 'Modeling of AC Energy Converters and Systems' (8:30-11:20am, Room 3) – co-chair Zobair Roohani (senior field applications engineer).

• Technical Session T25: 'What's in the Can, Combinational Semiconductors' (8:30-11:20am, Room 4) – co-chair Paul Schimel (field applications engineer).

• Technical Session T33: 'Utility& Mixed Applications of Power Electronics' (2-5:30pm, Room 5) – co-chair Paul Schimel (field applications engineer).

• Technical Session T35: 'Grid and Microgrid Interfaces' (2-5:30pm, Room 7) – co-chair Haihua Zhou (senior staff GaN applications engineer).

• Industry Session IS11 (8:30-11:30am) – 'Understanding the Switching Characteristics of IGBT's and FREDs in IGBT Modules' by Paul Schimel (field applications engineer).

• Poster Session D02: 'DC-DC Converters I' (11:30am-2pm, Poster Area 2) – co-chair Haihua Zhou (senior staff GaN applications engineer).

• Poster Session D05: 'Power Electronics for Utility Interface II' (11:30am-2pm, Poster Area 5) – co-chair Davide Giacomini (director, Product Management and Applications, Automotive Products business unit).

• Poster Session D20: 'Power Electronics Applications I' (11:30am-2pm, Poster Area 6) – co-chair Abhijit Pathak (principal engineer, Applications).

• Poster Session D21: 'Power Electronics Applications II' (11:30am-2pm, Poster Area 7) – co-chair Abhijit Pathak (principal engineer, Applications).

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