Introduction: Submicron-to micron-sized grains of SiC originating from asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars and supernovae (SN) can be ubiquitous in the matrices of primitive chondrites. Previous work has shown that presolar SiC occurs as three fundamental polytypes or stacking sequences (cubic 3C, hexagonal 2H, and one-dimensionally disordered hexagonal structure designated here ∞H) along with ...

Silicon carbide (SiC) is considered as an important material for nuclear engineering due to its excellent properties. Changing the carbon content in SiC can regulate and control its elastic and thermodynamic properties, but a simulation study of the effect of carbon content on the sputtering (caused by the helium ions) of SiC is still lacking. In this work, we used the Monte-Carlo and molecular...

The diffusion of water in amorphous SiC a-SiC was investigated by molecular modeling methods based on density functional theory. It was assumed that the structure of a-SiC at the molecular level can be described by a model that takes into account a distribution of cage structures which consist of SiC units forming n-member rings from a suitable precursor in a chemical vapor deposition process. ...

For the first time a novel oxygen reduction catalyst with a 3D platinized graphene/nano-ceramic sandwiched architecture is successfully prepared by an unusual method. Herein the specific gravity of graphene nanosheets (GNS) is tailored by platinizing graphene in advance to shorten the difference in the specific gravity between carbon and SiC materials, and then nano-SiC is well intercalated int...

Hybrid materials of electrically conducting polymers and inorganic semiconductors form an exciting class of functional materials. To fully exploit the potential synergies of the hybrid formation, however, sophisticated synthetic methods are required that allow for the fine-tuning of the nanoscale structure of the organic/inorganic interface. Here we present the photocatalytic deposition of a co...

In this paper successive interference cancellation (SIC) based on optical code division multiple access (O-CDMA) systems has been investigated. SIC scheme refers to a family of low complexity multi-user detection (MUD) methods for direct sequence CDMA systems. Performance of optical CDMA system is influenced by multiple access interference (MAI) resulted from the overlapping between the users. ...

SIC (Successive Interference Cancellation) is an effective way of multiple packet reception (MPR) to fight with interference in wireless networks. Most of the existing methods for SIC in wireless networks are mainly focusing on link scheduling. For characterizing the impact of SIC, two interference models such as layered protocol model and layered physical model are introduced. Various existing...

Colloidal cubic silicon carbide (SiC) nanocrystals with an average diameter of 4.4 nm have been fabricated by anisotropic wet chemical etching of microsized cubic SiC powder. Fourier transform infrared spectra show that these cubic SiC nanocrystals contain carboxylic acid, SiH, CH, and CHx groups. UV/Vis absorption and photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy clearly indicate that water and ethanol ...

Semi-insulating silicon carbide (SiC) is a fully processable semiconductors substrate that is commonly used as an alternative to conventional silicon (Si) in high-power applications. Here we examine the feasibility of using SiC as a substrate for the development of minimally invasive multi-sensor micro-probes in the context of organ monitoring during transplantation. In particular, we make a th...

SiC porous granules were synthesized from activated granular charcoal and Si powder at 973K by using a Na flux. The SiC granules maintained the shape of the charcoal with a dimension of about 5mm in diameter and 7–10mm in length. X-ray diffraction showed the structure of the formed SiC to be cubic -type. Agglomerates of a few dozen nm of SiC grains and an electron diffraction ring pattern of -S...