[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Single-defect phonons imaged by electron microscopy

X Yan, C Liu, CA Gadre, L Gu, T Aoki, TC Lovejoy… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Crystal defects affect the thermal and heat-transport properties of materials by scattering
phonons and modifying phonon spectra,,,,,,–. To appreciate how imperfections in solids …

A review of sample thickness effects on high-resolution transmission electron microscopy imaging

S Li, Y Chang, Y Wang, Q Xu, B Ge - Micron, 2020 - Elsevier
High-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) is an important approach to
analyzing material structures. However, in reality, preparing a sufficiently thin sample for use …

[HTML][HTML] Extended defects in 3C-SiC: Stacking faults, threading partial dislocations, and inverted domain boundaries

M Zimbone, A Sarikov, C Bongiorno, A Marzegalli… - Acta Materialia, 2021 - Elsevier
The presence of extended bi-dimensional defects is one of the key issues that hinder the
use of wide band-gap materials hetero-epitaxially grown on silicon. In this work, we …

[HTML][HTML] Genesis and evolution of extended defects: The role of evolving interface instabilities in cubic SiC

G Fisicaro, C Bongiorno, I Deretzis… - Applied Physics …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Emerging wide bandgap semiconductor devices such as the ones built with SiC have the
potential to revolutionize the power electronics industry through faster switching speeds …

[HTML][HTML] Growth of thick [1 1 1]-oriented 3C-SiC films on T-shaped Si micropillars

M Agati, S Boninelli, C Calabretta, F Mancarella… - Materials & Design, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper we report the morphology and the microstructural properties of thick [1 1 1]-
oriented 3C-SiC films epitaxially grown on T-shaped Si micropillars. This compliant …

[HTML][HTML] Advanced approach of bulk (111) 3C-SiC epitaxial growth

C Calabretta, V Scuderi, C Bongiorno… - Microelectronic …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract 3C-SiC films grown on (111) Si substrates exhibit poor crystal quality and
experience wafer cracks and bowing preventing access to bulk growth. This work reports …

[HTML][HTML] Designing silicon carbide heterostructures for quantum information science: challenges and opportunities

KJ Harmon, N Delegan, MJ Highland… - Materials for …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Silicon carbide (SiC) can be synthesized in a number of different structural forms known as
polytypes with a vast array of optically active point defects of interest for quantum information …

Room-temperature wafer bonding of SiC–Si by modified surface activated bonding with sputtered Si nanolayer

F Mu, K Iguchi, H Nakazawa, Y Takahashi… - Japanese journal of …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
A modified surface activated bonding (SAB) with Fe–Si multi-nanolayers is expected to
achieve the wafer bonding of SiC to various materials. However, Fe diffusion, which affects …

Generation and Termination of Stacking Faults by Inverted Domain Boundaries in 3C-SiC

M Zimbone, EG Barbagiovanni… - Crystal Growth & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Domain boundaries (DBs) generated during the growth of cubic silicon carbide (3C-SiC) on
(001) Si and their interaction with stacking faults (SFs) were studied in this work. Direct …