Artistic rendering of atomic structure of silicon carbide crystal showing defect (purple circle) and region of interest identified with quantum mechanical theory (silver sphere). Disclaimer ...

Sakineh Chabi from the University of New Mexico and her team recently discovered the world's first monolayer silicon carbide. The newly discovered ... that 2D SiC has a stable graphene-like honeycomb ...

Imperfections of crystal structure, especially edge dislocations ... with high resistance to temperature. At the atomic level, silicon carbide crystals are composed of many flat layers arranged ...

They form a chicken-wire structure one atom thick ... who carried out the study used graphene created on a crystal of silicon carbide by a method developed at Linköping University.

Researchers are documenting the different temperature and proton dosages required to make defects that will further allow silicon carbide to ... from AIP Publishing. Atomic defects in the lattice ...

Several hundred structures of silicon carbide (polytypes) have been identified which have different stacking arrangements for the silicon and carbon atoms. The simplest structure is a diamond ...

In power electronics, semiconductors are based on the element silicon—but the energy efficiency of silicon carbide would be ... Paul Scherrer Institute. Using atomic force microscope analysis ...

A technical paper titled “Spin-acoustic control of silicon vacancies in 4H silicon carbide” was published by researchers at Harvard University and Purdue University. “Bulk acoustic resonators can be ...

(Credit: DoE) Now it seems that silicon carbide (SiC) may soon replace the traditional zirconium alloy with General Atomics’ SiGa fuel cladding, which has been tested over the past 120 days in ...