Conference Agenda
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Session Overview | |
| Location: Aula Magna |
| Date: Wednesday, 24/Sept/2025 | |
| 8:50am - 9:00am |
Welcome Location: Aula Magna Vincenzo d'Alessandro, University of Naples Federico II |
| 9:00am - 9:40am |
1st Keynote Location: Aula Magna Chair: Vincenzo d'Alessandro, University of Naples Federico II Out-of-SOA Electrothermal Limitations of Power Semiconductor Devices: Characterization and Modeling Andrea Irace, University of Naples Federico II |
| 9:40am - 10:00am |
Vendors session Location: Aula Magna |
| 10:20am - 11:20am |
1.A: Cooling Approaches for Devices, Packages, and Systems 1 Location: Aula Magna Chair: Marta Rencz, Budapest University of Technology & Economics Enhanced Heat Transfer and Flow Characteristics in a Liquid-cooled Microchannel with Adjacent Micro-Synthetic Jets: Influence of Reynolds Number and Stroke Length 1: Technological University Dublin, Ireland; 2: Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Enhancing the Controllability of Forced Convection Liquid Cooling with Minichannel Heatsinks using Pulsating Flow of Variable Frequency Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Heat Transfer Enhancement by Metamaterial Structures for Semiconductor Cooling 1: Hitachi Energy Research, Sweden; 2: University of Waterloo, Canada |
| 11:40am - 1:00pm |
2.A: Cooling Approaches for Devices, Packages, and Systems 2 Location: Aula Magna Chair: Lorenzo Codecasa, Politecnico di Milano Impact of Adiabatic and Condenser Lengths on the Thermal Performance of Flat Pulsating Heat Pipes University of Sherbrooke, Canada Efficient Chip-integrated Microfluidic Cooling Through Jet-enhanced Manifold Microchannels Power and Wide-Band-Gap Electronics Research Laboratory (POWERlab), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland An Experimental Investigation of Guided Flow Liquid Cooling Methods on a Four Cell Prismatic Module Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Manufacturing and Design Optimisation of an Air Amplifier for Data Centre Server Cooling Applications 1: Technological University Dublin, Ireland; 2: Trinity College Dublin, Ireland |
| 2:00pm - 3:00pm |
PS_A: Poster Session A Location: Aula Magna Chair: John Janssen, NXP Semiconductors Critical Analysis of Intersection-point-based Techniques for the Experimental Indirect Determination of Thermal Resistance in Bipolar Transistors 1: Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, University Federico II, Naples, Italy; 2: Department of Electronics, Information, and Bioengineering, Polytechnic of Milan, Milan, Italy HTRB-Based Assessment of Epoxy Mold Compounds Using a Multi-DUT Monitoring Platform University of Naples Federico II, Italy Temperature-dependent Equivalent Circuit Modeling of PiN Diodes for Accurate Electromagnetic Simulations of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces University of Naples Federico II, Italy Aging Effect on Temperature Behaviour in Li-ion Battery Cell: A Case of Study University of Napoli Federico II, Italy Improving Photovoltaic Reliability with Temperature-aware Hot-spot Mitigation University of Napoli Federico II, Italy Experimental Evaluation of a Passive Dual Two-Phase Cooling System for EV Batteries Using a Dielectric Fluid and a Pulsating Heat Pipe 1: Department of Engineering for Industrial Systems and Technologies,University of Parma, Italy; 2: Department of Engineering and Architecture, University of Parma, Italy Hysteresis Phenomenon in the Electric Parameters of Lithium-ion Batteries Under Temperature Effects 1: Politecnico di Milano, DEIB, Italy; 2: Ricerca sul Sistema Energetico, TGM, S.p.A. Development of Automated 1D Simulation Methodology for Predicting the Cooling Performance of Electric Vehicle Battery Systems Hyundai Mobis, Korea, Republic of (South Korea) Thermal Analysis of a 5G Telecom Demonstrator in FO-WLP SiP with Integrated GaN Power Amplifier and GaAs Low Noise Amplifier 1: III-V Lab, France; 2: XLIM, France; 3: UMS (United Monolithic Semiconductors), France; 4: TRT (Thales Research & Technology) Characterisation of Thermal Interface Materials Under Sustained Cyclic Thermo-Mechanical Loading Silicon Austria Labs, Austria Multi-scale and Multi-physics Analysis of a GaN System in Package Using Fan Out Wafer Level Packaging (FO-WLP) Technology 1: XLIM, UMR7252, Université de Limoges, France; 2: United Monolithic Semiconductor, Villebon sur Yvette, France; 3: 3 - 5 Lab, Palaiseau, France Integration of Jet Impingement with Enhanced Pin Fin Structures for In-Chip Cooling of Power Electronics EPFL, Switzerland Improved Thermal Transient Testing of GaN Devices Manufactured with Various Construction Principles 1: SIEMENS DISW, Hungary; 2: Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Thermal Characterization of a Novel Direct Cooler Design for Modular Power Devices University of Parma, Italy 4H-SiC Power MOSFET Body Diode as a Highly-linear Temperature Sensor for Tj Monitoring 1: University of Napoli Federico II, Italy; 2: Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria, Italy Thermal Analysis of Fast-Charger Contactless Power Transfer for Electric Buses University of Napoli Federico II, Italy Prediction of Dynamic Thermal Behavior of Novel Ceramics for Power Devices Using Numerical Simulations Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Numerical Investigation on Thermal Behaviour of Horizontal Plate Heat Sink with Metal Foam Partially Embedded in PCM for Passive Cooling System Universita' degli Studi della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Italy |
| 4:00pm - 5:40pm |
3.A: Cooling Approaches for Devices, Packages, and Systems 3 Location: Aula Magna Chair: John Parry, Siemens//Mentor Graphics Heat Transfer Augmentation in Fin Channels using Self-Oscillating Reeds Georgia Institute of Technology, United States of America Numerical Simulations of Heat Transfer in Moderately High Swirling Pipe Flows Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Design and Analysis of Biomimicry-based Gradient Microchannel Heat Sinks to Effectively Dissipate Hotspots by Mitigating Flow Maldistribution IIITDM Kancheepuram, India A Deep Dive into an Air Cooled Data Centre’s Mechanical Cooling System Energy Consumption 1: School of Mechanical & Design Engineering, College of Engineering & Built Environment, Technological University Dublin, City Campus, Dublin D01 K822, Ireland; 2: Department of Mechanical, Manufacturing & Biomedical Engineering, University of Dublin, Trinity College, Dublin D02 PN40, Ireland Testing of Two-Phase Cooling of Bipolar Plates for Fuel Cells 1: NLR - Royal Netherlands Aerospace Centre, 1059 CM Amsterdam, The Netherlands; 2: Airbus Commercial Aircraft, 22335 Hamburg, Germany; 3: Aerostack GmbH, 72581 Dettingen, Germany |
| Date: Thursday, 25/Sept/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 9:40am |
2nd Keynote Location: Aula Magna Chair: Lorenzo Codecasa, Politecnico di Milano From Thermal Resistance to Power Efficient Thermal Design: Is Thermal still the Cinderella of Semiconductor Industry? Claudio Maria Villa, STMicroelectronics |
| 10:00am - 11:20am |
4.A: Advanced Thermal Measurement Techniques 1 Location: Aula Magna Chair: András Poppe, Budapest University of Technology and Economics Monitoring Electrothermal-Induced Package Strain During HTRB Using Fiber Optic Sensors University of Naples Federico II, Italy Thermal‑Resistance‑Based Reliability of TIM1 Materials in a Lidded Thermal Test Vehicle Under Active Thermal Load‑Cycling 1: Berliner Nanotest und Design GmbH, Germany; 2: Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany; 3: Fraunhofer ENAS, Germany Optimal Sensor Placement for Thermal Virtual Sensing in Electronic Systems Using Augmented Kalman Filtering 1: Imec; 2: Siemens Industry Software NV; 3: KU Leuven; 4: Siemens Industry Software; 5: Flanders Make Experimental Comparison of Variable Density Heatsinks Under Flow Boiling Conditions Universitat de Lleida, Spain |
| 11:40am - 1:00pm |
5.A: Advanced Thermal Measurement Techniques 2 Location: Aula Magna Chair: Claudio Maria Villa, ST Microelectronics Experimental Evaluation of Different Cold Plates Configurations for Direct-to-chip Liquid Cooling 1: Universal Smart Cooling SL, Spain; 2: Universitat de Lleida, Spain Experimental Comparative Analysis of PCB Cooling Technologies Including Nonlinear Thermal Effects 1: ABB Corporate Research Center, Switzerland; 2: Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, University of Naples Federico II, Italy High-Resolution Thermal Analysis of Interface and Microstructure Formation in SAC-Cu Solder Joints Materials Center Leoben Forschung GmbH, Austria Stainless-steel Flat Plate Pulsating Heat Pipe: An Alternative for Electronic Cooling 1: Heat Pipe Laboratory, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianopolis/SC, Brazil; 2: Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy |
| 2:00pm - 3:00pm |
PS_B: Poster Session B Location: Aula Magna Chair: Wendy Luiten, WLC Numerical Investigation of the Thermal Behavior of 3-D GaN LEDs for Thermal-Aware Design 1: Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, University of Naples Federico II, Italy; 2: Department of Semiconductor and Optoelectronics Devices, Lodz University of Technology, Politechniki 10, 93-590 Lodz, Poland Failure Analysis for Electronic Packaging Materials: A Comparative Study of Pulsed and Lock-In Thermography 1: Berliner Nanotest und Design GmbH, Germany; 2: Technische Universität Chemnitz, Germany; 3: Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany; 4: Fraunhofer ENAS, Germany SPICE-based Switching Energies Estimation of SiC Power Transistors Gdynia Maritime University, Poland Investigation of the Compact Thermal Modeling of SiC-based Power MOSFETs 1: Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, University of Naples Federico II, Italy; 2: StarPower Europe AG, Baden, Switzerland; 3: Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy 3D Modelling of Mass and Heat Transport in Multi-Phase Microfluidic Systems 1: Centre for Energy Research, Hungary; 2: Tallinn University of Technology A Time-Efficient Approach to Thermal-electrical Analysis of Six-pack IGBT-based Power Module Nexperia B.V. Reduced BJT Power Dissipation via Saturated Operation in Full Wave Rectifiers 1: Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria; 2: University of Napoli Federico II, Italy Peltier Cooling for Thermal Management and Efficiency Enhancement in Perovskite Solar Cells 1: Higher National School of Renewable Energies, Environment and Sustainable Development, Campus Fesdis, Batna 05078, Algeria; 2: Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, University Federico II, via Claudio 21, 80125 Naples, Italy Thermal Performance of Server Voltage Regulator Modules in Liquid and Air-cooling System STMicroelectronics, Italy Thermal Characterization of Heat Pipe Embedded Heat Spreaders for High Performance Computer Cooling in Automotives 1: Chemnitz University of Technology; 2: Fraunhofer ENAS Three-Omega Method for Characterization of Thermal Conductivity of Samples at Cryogenic Temperatures 1: Technische Universität Chemnitz, Germany; 2: Fraunhofer ENAS, Chemnitz, Germany; 3: Center for Micro- and Nanotechnologies (ZfM), Chemnitz, Germany; 4: Center for Materials, Architectures and Integration of Nanomembranes (MAIN), Chemnitz, Germany; 5: Nanotest Berlin, Germany Fast Extraction of Thermal System Model for a Silicon Carbide Power Module Based on a 1D and 3D Hybrid Simulation Framework Zhuzhou CRRC Times Electric UK Innovation Center, United Kingdom Effect of the Condenser on the Thermal Performance of a Mini Loop Heat Pipe Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil An Advanced High Temperature Device Heating Methodology for Automotive Grade Zero Conditions 1: KAI Kompetenzzentrum Automobil- und Industrieelektronik GmbH, Austria; 2: Graz University of Technology Optimizing Boosting for Faster Calorimetric Measurement of High-Efficiency Electric Machines 1: Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium; 2: FlandersMake@UGent - Core lab MIRO, Leuven, Belgium; 3: University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium; 4: University of Cape Town, Cape Town, Sout Africa Verification of Thermal Transient Measurement Methods for Cascode Type SiC JFETs SIEMENS, Japan Numerical Thermal Analysis of Liquid-Cooled Electric Motors for High-Performance Applications ASELSAN, Turkiye Fast Approach with Analytical Models for Heat Sink Modelling and Optimization 1: Technical University Munich; 2: Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH Cooling Strategies for PCB-Mounted MOSFETs: Comparative Analysis and Numerical Simulations CARIAD SE, Germany |
| 4:00pm - 5:00pm |
6.A: Advanced Thermal Measurement Techniques 3 Location: Aula Magna Chair: Pavel Makhnatch, Huawei Technologies Sweden AB Experimental Investigation of Flow Boiling Heat Transfer in Different Flow Regimes 1: Ghent Universtity, Ghent, Belgium; 2: FlandersMake@UGent – Core lab MIRO, Leuven, Belgium; 3: University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa Development and Integration of Phase Change Materials to Limit Operating Temperatures University of Rostock, Germany An Approach to Thermoelectric Module Selection: Analytical Simulation and Experimental Test 1: Industrial Engineering Department, University of Napoli “Federico II”, Piazzale Vincenzo Tecchio, 80, Napoli, 80125, Italy; 2: Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems, National Research Council of Italy, Via Pietro Castellino 111, Napoli, 80131, Italy |
| Date: Friday, 26/Sept/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 9:40am |
3rd Keynote Location: Aula Magna Chair: Marcello Iasiello, University of Naples Federico II Data center direct-to-chip cooling with two-phase heat exchangers: Challenges and possible solutions Filippo Cataldo, Wieland Thermal Solutions |
| 10:00am - 11:20am |
7.A: Thermal Management in Power Electronics 1 Location: Aula Magna Chair: John Janssen, NXP Semiconductors Electrothermal Performance Enhancement of Silicon Carbide Gate-All-Around MOSFETs Using a Ferroelectric Gate Stack 1: University of Naples Federico II, Italy; 2: Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy Dielectric Liquid Cooling of 2.0 kV SiC MOSFET Power Module Using Jet Impingement and Pumped Immersion Flow Hochschule Kempten - University of Applied Sciences, Germany A Comparative Analysis of the Thermal Performance of DBC and Novel IMS Substrates of IGBT Devices 1: Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary; 2: Serigroup, Italy Multiphysics Simulations for IGBT Power Semiconductor Module Cooling 1: Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary; 2: ABB Oy, Motion, Technology Collaboration Office, Helsinki, Finland |
| 11:40am - 1:00pm |
8: Thermal Management in Power Electronics 2 Location: Aula Magna Chair: András Poppe, Budapest University of Technology and Economics Study of Breakdown Mechanisms in GaN/AlGaN HEMTs Under Various Short Circuit Tests Using p-GaN Schottky Gate Current as Thermal Sensitive Parameter 1: STMicroelectronics, France; 2: LAAS-CNRS, France Toward Real-Time Junction Temperature Estimation with a Physics-Informed Attention LSTM 1: Politecnico di Torino, Italy; 2: Ideas & Motion K-factor Calibration Issues of IGBTs Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Development of a Surrogate Model for a Phase Change Material Heat Sink for Thermal Buffering of Power Electronics 1: Ghent University, Department of Electromechanical, Systems and Metal Engineering, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, Ghent, 9000, Belgium; 2: FlandersMake@UGent – Core lab MIRO, Ghent, 9000, Belgium; 3: University of Cape Town, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Private Bag X3, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa |
| 2:00pm - 3:20pm |
9: Thermal Investigation of LEDs and Solar Cells Location: Aula Magna Chair: Pierluigi Guerriero, University of Naples Federico II Reliability of High-Power LEDs Under Varying Thermal Aging Conditions Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt, Germany Extrinsic Failure of High-power Blue LEDs for Horticulture Applications Stressed in Hot Environments University of Padova, Italy Thermal Aspects of Infrared LED Sources Interfering with Military Night Vision Systems Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Electro-thermal Circuit Models of PhotoVoltaic Cells Subjected to Optical Degradation Phenomena 1: University of Naples Federico II, Italy; 2: University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"; 3: University of Salerno; 4: National Technical University of Athens |
