Figure 1: The structure of silicon carbide. The three-dimensional lattice is composed of hexagonally patterned bilayers of carbon (black) and silicon (white) in this 4H polytype.

The researchers looked at a specific crystal structure of silicon carbide called 4H-SiC that contains naturally occurring defects called “divacancies”. These correspond to a missing silicon atom next ...

While SiC offers benefits to designers and consumers, its manufacturing is substantially more expensive than silicon.

SILICON carbide exists in two distinct crystalline polymorphs, the cubic or β-form, and the hexagonal or α-form 1–3. Although the crystal structure and related physical properties of the two ...

Crystal growth is radically different ... Palmour: It means that if you make the exact same structure in silicon and silicon carbide — the same epi thickness, the same doping level — the silicon ...

Scientists uncovered rare hexagonal silicon forms (2H, 4H, 6H) created by stress and heat, challenging assumptions about this key electronic material.

Silicon carbide (SiC ... Put simply, small dislocations in the crystal structure grow over time into large defects called "single Shockley stacking faults" that progressively degrade performance ...

In power electronics, semiconductors are based on the element silicon—but the energy efficiency of silicon carbide would be ... of carbon rings bound in the crystal lattice, as experimentally ...

silicon and vanadium. The other way is to alter its crystal structure and makeup by heating, cooling and working it. Both let ferrous alloys be developed to meet a wide variety of design needs.