Defect inspection techniques in SiC

PC Chen, WC Miao, T Ahmed, YY Pan, CL Lin… - Nanoscale Research …, 2022 - Springer
With the increasing demand of silicon carbide (SiC) power devices that outperform the
silicon-based devices, high cost and low yield of SiC manufacturing process are the most …

New approaches and understandings in the growth of cubic silicon carbide

FL Via, M Zimbone, C Bongiorno, A La Magna… - Materials, 2021 - mdpi.com
In this review paper, several new approaches about the 3C-SiC growth are been presented.
In fact, despite the long research activity on 3C-SiC, no devices with good electrical …

Exploring defect behavior in helium-irradiated single-crystal and nanocrystalline 3C-SiC at 800° C: A synergy of experimental and simulation techniques

Z Wang, L Zhang, AT AlMotasem, B Li, T Polcar… - Acta Materialia, 2024 - Elsevier
In this study, single crystal (sc) and nanocrystalline (nc) 3C-SiC samples were subjected to
30 keV He ion irradiation across various doses while maintaining a temperature of 800° C …

Electron irradiation modified point defects of SiC nanoparticles with tunable high electromagnetic wave absorption

B Zhang, Q Jing, S Yan, J Guo, W Liu, C Sun, Z Wang - Carbon, 2024 - Elsevier
Silicon carbide nanoparticles (SiC nps) were modified by changing the injection amount
using 1 MeV high-energy electron as radiation source. When the injection volume reaches …

Novel photonic applications of silicon carbide

H Ou, X Shi, Y Lu, M Kollmuss, J Steiner, V Tabouret… - Materials, 2023 - mdpi.com
Silicon carbide (SiC) is emerging rapidly in novel photonic applications thanks to its unique
photonic properties facilitated by the advances of nanotechnologies such as nanofabrication …

Silicon carbide thin film technologies: recent advances in processing, properties, and applications-Part I

AE Kaloyeros, B Arkles - ECS Journal of Solid State Science and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
In Part I of a two-part report, we provide a detailed and systematic review of the latest
progress in cutting-edge innovations for the silicon carbide (SiC) material system, focusing …

Tailorable microwave absorption properties of macro-porous core@ shell structured SiC@ Ti3SiC2 via molten salt shielded synthesis (MS3) method in air

Z Zhong, B Zhang, J Ye, Y Ren, F Ye - Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2022 - Elsevier
High-performance microwave absorption and lightweight design have evolved into the
foremost critical considerations in the practical application of modern microwave absorbing …

Ab initio calculation of carrier mobility in semiconductors including ionized-impurity scattering

J Leveillee, X Zhang, E Kioupakis, F Giustino - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
The past decade has seen the emergence of ab initio computational methods for calculating
phonon-limited carrier mobilities in semiconductors with predictive accuracy. More realistic …

Impact of nitrogen on the selective closure of stacking faults in 3C-SiC

C Calabretta, V Scuderi, C Bongiorno… - Crystal Growth & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Despite the promising properties, the problem of cubic silicon carbide (3C-SiC)
heteroepitaxy on silicon has not yet been resolved and its use in microelectronics is limited …

First principles analysis of impurities in silicon carbide grain boundaries

CM Atkinson, MC Guziewski, SP Coleman, SK Nayak… - Acta Materialia, 2021 - Elsevier
Silicon carbide is an important structural and electronic ceramic material that finds many
uses in a wide variety of applications that require stability at extreme conditions. In this study …