Power Electronics and Motor Drives: Improving Efficiency, Reliability, and System Performance

Panel Summary: As motor-drive systems continue to evolve, integrating power electronics, advanced semiconductors, and intelligent controls is critical to improving efficiency and performance. This panel will explore innovations in motor-drive integration, wide-bandgap technologies such as silicon carbide and gallium nitride, thermal management, and EMI reduction. Industry experts will discuss strategies for enhancing system reliability, reducing losses, and balancing performance gains with cost and complexity across industrial and electrification applications.

Discussion focus:

• Integrating motors, inverters, controllers, and power electronics
• Wide-bandgap semiconductors, including silicon carbide and gallium nitride
• Reducing switching losses, harmonics, and electromagnetic interference
• Thermal management in high-power-density drive systems
• Improving reliability through integrated system design
• Balancing efficiency gains against system cost and complexity