New materials for emerging electrical environments—workshop report

Wide band gap (WBG) semiconductors are delivering on the promise of higher power and energy density circuits. In doing so, they are also opening an opportunity for a new generation of dielectric materials. Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin organized a 1.5 day workshop on "Next-generation dielectric materials for microelectronics/electrical applications" at the Massachusetts Institute Technology on December 4–5, 2019 focusing on this emerging opportunity. The invitation-only workshop brought together the materials researchers with those attempting to improve power electronics (PE) packaging to compare information that would accelerate the field (Figure 1).