New Refractories Made from Reused Silicon Carbide

Effect of increasing corundum on mechanical properties of silicon carbide refractories

Oxide materials such as Al2O corundum has a great influence on the mechanical and oxidation properties of refractory or refractory materials. In this paper, the effect of Al2O3 powder density, apparent porosity, linear shrinkage, and oxidation resistance of SiC composite refractory materials is investigated. Meanwhile, the compressive and flexural strengths were investigated before and after he...

Silicon Nitride and Silicon Carbide

Boron carbide/n-silicon carbide heterojunction diodes

Silicon carbide microdisk resonator.

We demonstrate a silicon carbide (SiC) microdisk resonator with an intrinsic optical quality factor of 6.19×10(3), fabricated on the 3C-SiC-on-Si platform. We characterize the temperature dependence of the cavity resonance and obtain a thermo-optic coefficient of 2.92×10(-5)/K for 3C-SiC. Our simulations show that the device exhibits great potential for cavity optomechanical applications.

Silicon Carbide Neutron Detectors

The potential of Silicon Carbide (SiC) for use in semiconductor nuclear radiation detectors has been long recognized. In fact, the first SiC neutron detector was demonstrated more than fifty years ago (Babcock, et al., 1957; Babcock & Chang, 1963). This detector was shown to be operational in limited testing at temperatures up to 700 oC. Unfortunately, further development was limited by the poo...