The Power Sources Manufacturers Association (PSMA) Capacitors Committee is sponsoring an Industry Session at APEC 2018 titled, “Capacitors for Emerging Power Conversion Applications.” The session (IS03) will take place Tuesday, March 6th, 2018 from 8:30 a.m. to 11:55 a.m. at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas. The session will feature seven experts from capacitor companies that serve the power electronics industries, including TDK-Epcos, KEMET, Cornell Dubilier Electronics, NWL and W. L. Gore and Associates, Wurth Electronik and AVX.

The Industry Session on capacitors will feature presentations covering the latest applications for capacitors in power electronics and how technologies have been developed to meet them. The future needs for capacitors to work with wide band gap (WBG) semiconductors are addressed such as higher voltages, higher temperatures and increased power densities. This valuable session will help attendees gain a better understanding of various component configurations and factors shaping capacitor component technologies. By attending the sessions, OEM designers, system designers, and component developers will gain an awareness of new options; therefore helping component developers to provide more effective configurations and system designers to better optimize their power electronics.

The Industry Session will be co-chaired by NWL’s Ralph Kerrigan, who also co-chairs the PSMA Capacitor Technical Committee, and Fred Weber from Future Technology Worldwide. “Clearly, power-electronics designers value practical application information and the APEC Industry Sessions are the perfect forum,” stated Kerrigan. “This Industry Session will give the latest performance information and roadmap for capacitors and allow attendees to interact with other professionals who are active in the design and application of capacitors.”