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Solving Electromagnetic Challenges: An EMA Webinar Series

Take part in EMA’s Solving Electromagnetic Challenges webinar series, where you will learn how to overcome the most pressing issues in the industry. Whether it's adapting to new standards, adopting new technologies and methodologies, or optimizing your designs and workflows, Solving Electromagnetic Challenges will give you the edge you need to succeed.


Our next webinar is Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025

Simulating the Future of PECVD: Better Processes, Better Devices

Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition (PECVD) is a cornerstone of modern electronics manufacturing, yet fully capturing its complex physics through simulation has remained a significant challenge—until now. EMA has developed breakthrough, patent-pending innovations that enable full-physics simulation of PECVD with unprecedented accuracy and practicality.

In this webinar, we will demonstrate how EMA’s advanced simulation platform empowers engineers to optimize PECVD processes, reduce trial-and-error experimentation, and unlock measurable yield improvements. You’ll learn how our services team can apply these tools to a demonstration project tailored to a critical element of your process. If successful, our deployment team can seamlessly integrate the capability into your workflows, and ultimately license the solution for ongoing use in your production environment.

Join us to discover how EMA’s innovations are redefining PECVD simulation—delivering better processes, better devices, and a more efficient path to high-yield manufacturing.

Join us on Oct. 1 at 1 p.m. ET. Click here to get registered.

Speaker: Tim McDonald
EMA Principal Scientist II and Co-owner

Tim McDonald, PhD is the President and Co-Owner of Electro Magnetic Applications where he has implemented new system-modeling approaches to simulate the interaction of systems and their electronics with electromagnetic environments in a shorter time, with more accuracy, and at a lower cost. He is a consultant to NASA and DoD major primes for specialty engineering of critical systems, development of novel solutions to EMI/EMC problems, and in the execution of major programs that require verification to electromagnetic environmental effects.


View our previous webinars here:

EMC qualification

EMC Qualification Analysis to Electric units

Topic: Analysis to Predict Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Compliance of Units and Devices for Suppliers Presenter: Tim McDonald Abstract: Tier-1 suppliers of electronics units for aircraft, automobiles, or other platforms must meet electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) requirements. Platform integrators establish EMC requirements in order to ensure overall system compatibility. Almost always, the method of compliance to the […]

wind turbines

Using Simulation to Reduce Damage and Maximize Availability in Wind Turbine Applications

Topic: Using Simulation to Reduce Damage and Maximize Availability in Wind Turbine Applications Presenter: Justin McKennon Abstract: Lightning effects on wind turbine blades present significant challenges to manufacturers and operators. The industry is skewing heavily towards larger wind turbine blades and more remote locations, and these pose substantial logistical challenges in terms of accessibility, cost […]

Aircraft helicopter lightning strike

HIRF and Lightning Certification for VTOL Airtaxi

Topic: HIRF and Lightning Certification for VTOL Airtaxi Speaker: Giancarlo Guida Abstract: With Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) air taxis, the engineering community is once again called to support an emerging technology that could have an amazing impact on the way people and goods are transported allowing for safer and more environmentally friendly urban mobility. […]

Automotive EMC

Existing and Emerging Challenges Facing Automotive EMC

Topic: Existing and Emerging Challenges Facing Automotive EMC Presenter: Jonathan Nydell, President and Founder, JN Engineering LLC Abstract: Technical development has turned automotive systems into complex electrical and RF devices. Fully electric powertrains and the development of vehicle autonomy increases the need for active electrical components, complex interconnected systems, and the use of RF systems. […]

lightning striking an aircraft

How to Get Your Aerospace Platform Certified for Lightning

Topic: How to Get Your Aerospace Platform Certified for Lightning Presenters: Tim McDonald Giancarlo Guida Abstract: Lightning is a required environment for certification of many air and space platforms. The lightning requirement has a long history in transport aircraft. In addition, lightning requirements are often imposed on many novel applications including: Personal taxi aircraft Unmanned […]

Spacecraft charging simulations

Fully Coupled Internal Spacecraft Charging Simulations with EMA3D

Topic: Fully Coupled Internal Spacecraft Charging Simulations with EMA3D- Internal (now Ansys Charge Plus) Presenter: Bryon Neufeld Abstract: EMA3D®-Internal (now Ansys Charge Plus) is a fully 3D internal space charging software tool. It allows for a comprehensive internal space charging analysis to be performed almost entirely within a graphical user interface, including: sophisticated geometry import, […]

lightning aircraft model

Testing and Simulation to Achieve FAA Certification of Aircraft Fuel Tanks to Lightning

Topic: Testing and Simulation to Achieve FAA Certification of Aircraft Fuel Tanks to Lightning Presenters: Billy Martin Cody Weber Abstract: Failure is truly not an option when it comes to FAA certification of passenger aircraft. The bar for acceptance of testing and simulation is incredibly high. Would you like your engineering team to learn what […]

cosite interference

Avoid Costly RF Cosite Interference Before it Becomes a Problem

Topic: Avoid Costly RF Cosite Interference Before It Becomes a Problem Presenter: Matt Miller Abstract: Interference between RF devices is one of the biggest challenges in designing and maintaining commercial and defense systems. These systems include ships, airplanes, drones, cell phones, satellites, automobiles and generally, anything that has RF systems installed in or on it. […]

Space plasma EMC analysis

Comprehensive Space Plasma EMC Analysis Using a Single Model

Topic: Comprehensive Space Plasma EMC Analysis Using a Single Model Abstract: Space plasmas present many risks to space vehicles, ranging from antenna pattern distortion to surface charging to box level transient coupling. The modern use of ceramics and other insulating materials in space vehicle platforms makes numerical EMC analysis an important part of the design […]

Modeling complex cable harnesses in EMA3D simulations.

Modeling Complex Cable Harnesses in EMA3D Simulations

Topic: Modeling Complex Cable Harnesses in EMA3D Simulations Presenter: Cody Weber Abstract: Computation Electromagnetic (CEM) simulations play an ever-increasing role in the analysis and support for aircraft and aerospace programs. CEM can be used to evaluate electromagnetic environmental effects as well as EMC/EMI system problems for design and certification support. This analysis not only can […]

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