An Energy Savings Journey
12 PM (EST) Tuesday (Oct. 25), at EPS - IEEE Electronics Packaging Society Branch Chapter at the University of Waterloo, we are honoured to have Dr. Alexander Lidow, CEO and co-founder of Efficient Power Conversion Corporation (EPC) giving a talk on "An Energy Savings Journey". The webinar will be held on Zoom webinar virtually.
Abstract :
Starting with a few words from a professor in 1976 about how energy impacts the global standard of living, I was inspired to find the most efficient ways to use electricity as a career. Milestones along the way include the basic inventions that led to modern silicon power MOSFETs as an R&D engineer, through a career in manufacturing, and eventually leadership of a multinational publicly-traded semiconductor company. Finding silicon at its theoretical limits for power conversion at the end of the last millennium, I then started a new path with GaN-on-Si technology by starting Efficient Power Conversion (EPC). The team of engineers and scientists at EPC have developed products that continued the trend towards greater energy efficiency while opening whole new applications that take advantage of GaN’s extraordinary characteristics.
Biography :
Alexander Lidow is the CEO and co-founder of Efficient Power Conversion Corporation (EPC). Prior to founding EPC, Dr. Lidow was CEO of International Rectifier Corporation. A co-inventor of the HEXFET power MOSFET, Dr. Lidow holds many patents in power semiconductor technology and has authored numerous publications on related subjects, including co-authoring the first textbook on GaN transistors, GaN Transistors for Efficient Power Conversion, now in its third edition published by John Wiley and Sons. Lidow earned his Bachelor of Science degree from Caltech and his Ph.D. from Stanford.
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- University of Waterloo
- 200 University Avenue West
- Waterloo, Ontario
- Canada N2L 3G1
- Building: EIT
- Room Number: 3142
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- Co-sponsored by IEEE KW Section
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Alexander Lidow of Efficient Power Conversion Corporation (EPC)
An Energy Savings Journey
Abstract :
Starting with a few words from a professor in 1976 about how energy impacts the global standard of living, I was inspired to find the most efficient ways to use electricity as a career. Milestones along the way include the basic inventions that led to modern silicon power MOSFETs as an R&D engineer, through a career in manufacturing, and eventually leadership of a multinational publicly-traded semiconductor company. Finding silicon at its theoretical limits for power conversion at the end of the last millennium, I then started a new path with GaN-on-Si technology by starting Efficient Power Conversion (EPC). The team of engineers and scientists at EPC have developed products that continued the trend towards greater energy efficiency while opening whole new applications that take advantage of GaN’s extraordinary characteristics.
Biography:
Alex Lidow is CEO and co-founder of Efficient Power Conversion Corporation (EPC). Prior to founding EPC, Dr. Lidow was CEO of International Rectifier Corporation. A co-inventor of the HEXFET power MOSFET, Dr. Lidow holds many patents in power semiconductor technology and has authored numerous publications on related subjects, including co-authoring the first textbook on GaN transistors, GaN Transistors for Efficient Power Conversion, now in its third edition published by John Wiley and Sons. Lidow earned his Bachelor of Science degree from Caltech and his Ph.D. from Stanford.
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• We have a drain of graduate and undergraduate students who get their degree in electronics, but later move to software and computer science jobs. We wanted you to share how your professional career evolved (your life story) and how you followed your passion as an example in order to motivate students to pursue their paths in semiconductor and hardware engineering.
o This part can be 20 min.
• Also, to give them the vision, it would be very helpful if you can provide a perspective on applications for GaN-based electronics and then narrow it down to the bottlenecks that may need further attention and effort by researchers and students.
o This part can be 15 – 20 min.
• We can reserve 5-10 min for questions.