[IEEE CAS04/ED15/EP21/PHO36 EDS Distinguished Lecture] Multidimensional Power Devices in (Ultra-)Wide-Bandgap Semiconductors
IEEE Toronto Electronic Devices Society is proud to invite you to a distinguished lecture by Dr. Yuhao Zhang of University of Hong Kong.
Join us Tuesday, 25 August 2026 at 10AM (EST)
This is a hybrid event, feel free to join us remotely if you cannot make it🙌
Refreshments will be provided
Abstract
Power electronics technologies provide electrical energy conversion using semiconductor devices and passive components. The global power semiconductor market reaches US$50 billion and is rapidly expanding, driven by applications like AI data centers, electric vehicles, consumer electronics, electric grids and renewable energy processing.
Power device advances are driven by materials and device architectures. In addition to using wide-bandgap (WBG) or ultrawide-bandgap (UWBG) materials, multidimensional architectures – such as superjunction, multi-channel and multi-gate – can also improve device performance. These structures enable electrostatics engineering in additional dimensions and bring the benefits of geometrical scaling into power devices.
This talk presents our efforts in developing multidimensional power devices in WBG and UWBG semiconductors, with the scope covering device and material innovation, packaging and thermal management, as well as circuit applications. These devices have achieved performance beyond the respective material limits of 1-D devices and hold great potential for advancing the speed, efficiency, and form factor of power electronics systems; some of them have reached initial commercialization. These devices also provide an exciting platform to explore the fundamental material properties and carrier transports under the concurrence of high electric field and high current density in sub-micron-second switching transients.
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- Toronto, Ontario
- Canada
- Building: Bahen Centre for Information Technology
- Room Number: BA4164
- Starts 17 August 2026 04:00 AM UTC
- Ends 26 August 2026 03:00 AM UTC
- No Admission Charge
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Dr. Yuhao Zhang
Biography:
Yuhao Zhang is currently a Full Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Hong Kong (HKU). He also serves as the Associate Director of the HKU Centre for Advanced Semiconductors and Integrated Circuits. Before joining HKU, he was the Shirish S. Sathaye Associate Professor with Virginia Tech, leading the power semiconductor research at the Center for Power Electronics Systems, the largest academic research center in power electronics in the U.S. He received his Ph. D. and S. M., both in electrical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2017 and 2013, respectively. He has authored over 200 papers (including 7 Nature/Science-series papers, 21 IEDM papers, 20+ T-PEL papers as the corresponding author) and 2 book chapters and holds 9 granted U. S. patents. He is a co-author of over 10 highlight/feature/prize papers. His work has been cited over 14,000 times with a h-index of 61 and been widely covered by Nature Electronics, Semiconductor Today, Compound Semiconductors, EE Times, etc. over 100 times.
He currently serves as the Chair of the Power Devices and ICs Technical Committee of the IEEE Electron Device Society, an Associate Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Electron Device Letters, an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, and the TPC member of many conferences (e.g., IEDM, APEC, WiPDA). He received the MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratories Doctoral Dissertation Award, two IEEE George Smith Awards (best paper award of the year in IEEE Electron Device Letters), four Technical Highlights of IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), IEEE William M. Portnoy 1st Prize Paper Award, the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the Outstanding New Assistant Professor Award and Faculty Fellow Award of Virginia Tech, the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, the Compound Semiconductor Week Young Scientist Award, and the He Xiang Jian Young Scientist Award. His students received the Ph.D. Thesis Talk Award of the IEEE Power Electronics Society and several APEC Best Presentation Awards.