Our Speakers at the MSE Congress

Our experts will provide insightful talks regarding the recent developments and challenges in the design, characterization, and modeling of new dielectric materials for energy storage, with a particular focus on antiferroelectrics.

CeraLink: An Antiferroelectric Capacitor for Power Electronics

Dr. Thorsten Bayer Corporate Research & Development, Material Development, Piezo and Protection Devices TDK Electronics GmbH, Austria

Thorsten Bayer works as a Development Engineer at TDK Electronics in Austria. He studied Materials Science from 2004 – 2009 at TU Darmstadt and completed his dissertation Impact of injected charge carriers on Ba0,6Sr0,4TiO3 thin films: Electric and dielectric characterization and simulation of the charge transport in 2014 at TU Darmstadt’s Surface Science Division. From 2014 – 2017, he worked as a Postdoc at the Pennsylvania State University on The Role of Interfaces in Performance, Degradation, and Breakdown of NonLinear Dielectrics Under Extreme Conditions (AFOSR funded project).