Jones Seminar: Power Electronics in the Era of AI—Trends and challenges for the coming decades

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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, there will be new opportunities for control, management, diagnostics, and system integration.

This talk will motivate the need for two-plus 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.

Hosted by Professor Charles Sullivan.

About the Speaker(s)

Jason Stauth
Associate Professor of Engineering, Dartmouth

Jason T. Stauth received an AB degree in physics from Colby College, a BE from Dartmouth, and MS and PhD degrees from UC Berkeley. He is currently an associate professor of engineering at Dartmouth and co-director of the Power Management Integration Center, a National Science Foundation (NSF) Industry/University Cooperative Research Center. Stauth has been a member of the technical program committees for the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference  and Custom Integrated Circuits Conference and has served as associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, Journal of Solid-State Circuits, and Solid-State Circuits Letters. He received an NSF CAREER Award, multiple best paper awards in power electronics and solid-state circuits conferences, and the Excellence in Teaching Award from Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth. He has co-founded two companies, and holds a number of patents for technologies that have been commercialized and widely adopted. His research includes high-density power management and integrated circuits for computing and communication electronics, renewable energy, automotive, and mm-scale robotics.

Contact

For more information, contact Ashley Parker at ashley.l.parker@dartmouth.edu.