{"id":7133,"date":"2018-08-30T15:55:39","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T19:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/?post_type=news&#038;p=7133"},"modified":"2019-01-16T10:01:17","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T15:01:17","slug":"technical-webinar-series-current-status-and-future-perspectives-of-wide-bandgap-semiconductor-devices-and-applications","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/news\/technical-webinar-series-current-status-and-future-perspectives-of-wide-bandgap-semiconductor-devices-and-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"Technical Webinar Series: Current Status and Future Perspectives of Wide Bandgap Semiconductor Devices and Applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Jon Zhang, PowerAmerica&#8217;s director of power device technology, will give a talk titled <a href=\"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Jon-Zhang-Abstract.pdf\">&#8220;Current Status and Future Perspectives of Wide Bandgap Semiconductor Devices and Applications&#8221;<\/a> during the institute&#8217;s monthly technical webinar series from noon to 1 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, Sept. 5.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7136\" src=\"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Jon-Zhang-headshot-300x237.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Jon-Zhang-headshot-300x237.png 300w, https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Jon-Zhang-headshot-450x356.png 450w, https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Jon-Zhang-headshot.png 553w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Biography<\/em><br \/>\nDr. Jon Zhang is currently the director of power device technology at PowerAmerica, and also serves as an associate member of graduate faculty and adjunct professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NC State University. Before joining NCSU, he was the Senior Scientist at Wolfspeed, a Cree company, leading various projects in both R&amp;D and production in SiC power devices; inventing all-new generation concepts for SiC Schottky diode productions and playing a critical role in the commercialization of all generations of SiC MOSFETs and Schottky diodes. <a href=\"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Jon-Zhang-Bio.pdf\">Read his full biography. <\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Access Information: <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wolfmeeting.ncsu.edu\/orion\/joinmeeting.do?MTID=5804beca75a5b407f03febc9373c584b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click Link to Join<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Meeting Number<\/strong><br \/>\n998 787 577<br \/>\nNo password required<br \/>\n<strong>Audio Connection <\/strong><br \/>\n919-513-9329 (WolfMeeting)<br \/>\nAccess Code: 998 787 577<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Jon Zhang, PowerAmerica&#8217;s director of power device technology, will give a talk titled &#8220;Current Status and Future Perspectives of Wide Bandgap Semiconductor Devices and Applications&#8221; during the institute&#8217;s monthly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":150,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"news-category":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/7133"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/150"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/7133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7137,"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/7133\/revisions\/7137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7133"},{"taxonomy":"news-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-category?post=7133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}