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ESE Fall Seminar – “Power Electronics is Cool. Trends and Opportunities for the Coming Decades”
October 29 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
For the past two decades, power management and delivery has been a bottleneck, limiting the size and performance of a range of applications from performance computing to mobile phones and wearables. In the coming decades, power electronics will become the ‘glue’ of the modern energy system network. With electronics embedded deeply into this network, well beyond the ‘grid edge,’ there will be new opportunities for control, management, diagnostics, and system integration. This talk will motivate the need for 2+ decades of power electronic research to solve key application challenges, circuit and passive component limitations. There is a need to explore architectures well beyond conventional ‘buck’ and ‘boost’ converters; more specifically, topologies that leverage next-generation higher-energy-density passives including capacitors and piezoelectric resonators. We will discuss past efforts that have broken previous barriers in performance and size as well as future trends and opportunities to continue breaking these barriers.
Jason Stauth
Associate Professor of Engineering, Dartmouth and Co-Director of the Power Management Integration Center (PMIC)
Dr. Jason T. Stauth received the PhD degree at U.C. Berkeley in 2008 and is currently an Associate Professor of Engineering at Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College and Co-Director of the Power Management Integration Center (PMIC), a National Science Foundation (NSF) Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC). Dr. Stauth has been a member of the technical program committees for IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) and Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) and has served as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics (TPEL), Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics (JESTPE), Journal of Solid State Circuits (JSSC), and Solid State Circuits Letters (SSCL). He received the NSF CAREER Award in 2016, multiple best paper awards in power electronics and solid-state circuits conferences, and the Excellence in Teaching Award at Thayer School of Engineering in 2018. He has co-founded two companies that had successful exits, and holds 10 patents. His research includes high-density power management and integrated circuits for computing, consumer, renewable energy, automotive, and mm-scale robotics.