De Heer’s first breakthrough in creating a graphene semiconductor came when his team figured out how to grow graphene on silicon carbide wafers using special furnaces. This process resulted in ...

Materials like silicon carbide and gallium nitride are pushing the limits of conventional test methods, requiring innovative solutions to ensure reliability and efficiency in the test process.

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 the Advanced ...

Scientists overcame a limitation in graphene to harness the material as a working semiconductor at terahertz frequencies with 10 times the mobility of silicon.

HIROSHIMA—Researchers said they have developed a durable silicon carbide-based semiconductor that enables electronic devices to function in extreme conditions, such as at crippled nuclear power ...

The patented diamond-silicon carbide material from Coherent achieves isotropic thermal conductivity exceeding 800 W/m-K, and delivers twice the performance of copper, the current industry benchmark.

Amtech Systems: A Long-Term Play, Silicon Carbide, And M&A Oct. 27, 2023 7:14 AM ET Amtech Systems, Inc. (ASYS) Stock ASYS 4 Comments 1 Like Malak Investment Ideas ...

US semiconductor supplier Onsemi has unveiled silicon carbide power-integrated modules for utility-scale PV systems. It says the new modules increase solar inverter power from 300 kW to 350 kW and ...

A global leading manufacturer of silicon carbide devices (Wolfspeed) announced its plan to construct the world’s largest and the most advanced silicon carbide device manufacturing facility in ...

Silicon is one of many steps in the history of electronics, and the next step could be graphene. "To me, this is like a Wright brothers moment," de Heer said. "They built a plane that could fly ...

We have succeeded in intercalating gold atoms between the first carbon monolayer and the silicon carbide substrate. Thereby, the graphene-to-substrate distance is increased and the graphene layer is ...

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