The winners of the Semikron Innovation Award were selected by the appointed reviewers.
This year the jury decided to equally share the SEMIKRON Innovation Award among two candidates. Therefore, the SEMIKRON Innovation Award 2015 was given to:
Mickey Madsen from the Technical University of Denmark in Lyngby, Denmark for the outstanding innovation
´Efficient and Cost Effective Gate Drive for Resonant Converters Enabling Small Low-Cost Power Converters with long Lifespan´.
and to
Otto Kreutzer, Alexander Wirth from the Fraunhofer Institute IISB in Erlangen, Germany for the outstanding innovation
´Full SiC DC/DC Converter with a Power Density of more than 140 kW/dm³´.
The award ceremony was held on Wednesday, 25 March 2015 at 19.00 h in the frame of the ECPE Annual Event in Munich www.ecpe.org.