Engineering silicon carbide (SiC) with tailored morphologies for electronics and structural reinforcement materials has always been a costly and time-consuming affair, but scientists can now do it in ...

A variety of new colour centres (luminescing crystal defects that can emit individual photons) have been found in light-emitting diodes made from silicon carbide (SiC). The result confirms once again ...

In a process that takes just seconds, James Tour ’s group at Rice University can transform discarded glass and coal waste to ...

Individual spins, associated with vacancies in the silicon carbide lattice, have been observed and coherently manipulated. This may offer new directions for integrated spintronic devices. Widmann et ...

Silicon carbide is a compound of silicon and carbon with the chemical formula SiC. It occurs in the extremely rare mineral moissanite. Silicon carbide grains are bonded together by sintering to form ...

Silicon carbide, a material that is already widely used in high-power electronics, could also be used for quantum information processing. So say researchers in the US who have studied point defects in ...

Since the construction of the first commercial light water nuclear power plants (LWR) the design of their fuel rods hasn’t changed significantly. Mechanically robust and corrosion-resistant zirconium ...

Semiconductors are a vital part of electronic devices due to their conditional conductivity, which can be controlled through various parameters. Silicon carbide is a semiconducting compound made up of ...

In power electronics applications, the compound semiconductor silicon carbide (SiC) has been demonstrated in published literature [1] to be a superior material to silicon (Si) in many properties for ...