SSIE 2026: Technical Program Track 2
Work in Progress...

GaN and Related Materials

School dates: Monday 06 - Friday 10 July, 2026

SSIE is jointly organized by the IEEE Italy and the Department of Information Engineering (DEI) at the University of PadovaIn line with the school tradition, SSIE 2026 Track 2 will cover very timely and cutting-edge research, covering theory, systems and applications in GaN and Related Materials.

The technical program will be available very soon. Stay tuned!

Monday, July 6

09:00 – 13:30

Free morning

13:30 – 14:00

Matteo Meneghini University of Padova, Italy

Welcome address and logistics

14:00 – 15:30

Elke Meissner – Fraunhofer IISB, Germany

Tackling obstacles along the full value chain of GaN based electronics

15:30 – 16:00

Coffee Break

16:00 – 17:30

Giulio Baratella – imec, Belgium

Monolithic GaN Bidirectional Switches for Next Generation Power Electronics

Tuesday, July 7

09:30 – 11:00

Farid Madjdoub – CNRS, France

GaN Technology Across Power and RF: opportunities, challenges and emerging directions

11:00 – 11:30

Coffee Break

11:30 – 13:00

Vanya Darakchieva – Linkoping Universtity

Wide, Wider, Widest: Fundamentals and frontiers of UWBG Semiconductors

13:00 – 14:00

Lunch

14:00 – 15:30

Fabrizio Roccaforte – CNR IMM, Catania, Italy

Transport Mechanisms and Interface Engineering in Gate Stacks for GaN devices

15:30 – 16:00

Coffee Break

16:00 – 17:30

Michal Bockowski – UNIPRESS, Poland

GaN on GaN : From Bulk Crystals to Device 2.0 Substrates, Epitaxy and the New Power Electronics

Wednesday, July 8

08:45 – 17:30

NETWORKING EVENT (HIKING)

With lunch on the mountain chalet

Thursday, July 9

09:30 – 11:00

Matteo Meneghini – University of Padova, Italy

Advanced Characterization, modeling and reliability aspects for GaN devices

11:00 – 11:30

Coffee Break

11:30 – 13:00

Boris Butej – Infineon

Charge transport and trapping/detrapping in GaN-on-Si HEMTs

13:00 – 14:00

Lunch

14:00 – 17:30


STUDENT WORKSHOP


Friday, July 10

09:30 – 11:00

Fabrizio Masin, Infineon

From wide bandgap devices to industrial development: daily life of a developer

11:00 – 11:30

Coffee Break

11:30 – 13:00

TBD

TBD

13:00 – 13:30

CLOSING CEREMONY

13:30 – 14:30

Lunch

Registrations are open!

Promo Video – SSIE 2026 Track 2

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