SILICON carbide exists in two distinct crystalline polymorphs, the cubic or β-form, and the hexagonal or α-form1–3. Although the crystal structure and related physical properties of the two ...

Silicon is the backbone of the semiconductor industry, but it's also interesting in its own right. Here's why it's so important in modern computing—and in many other applications.

Doping of SiC. Compared with other wide bandgap semiconductor materials, p- and n- doping for a wide dopant concentration from 10 14 to 10 20 cm-3, is easily possible with SiC through in-situ doping ...

Argonne and Sandia scientists, using precision nanoscale tools, have pioneered the creation of qubits in silicon carbide, a material gaining prominence in quantum applications. Their ...

The new semiconducting material, made from epitaxial graphene (a particular crystal structure of carbon chemically bonded to silicon carbide), allows for more mobility than silicon, meaning ...

Figure 1 SiC’s bubble size indicates its manufacturing volume and annual growth. Source: Author. Many newcomers got into the substrate business because of the high cost of the raw material. They ...

Georgia Institute of Technology and other researchers demonstrated that semiconducting epigraphene (SEG) on single-crystal silicon carbide substrates has a band gap of 0.6 eV and room temperature ...

When I first learned about a material called silicon carbide, it blew my mind. It is one of the hardest synthetic materials, nearly as hard as diamond, and difficult to corrode. Its inner ...