A facile approach to microwave heating synthesis of silicon carbide from unmixed silicon powders

Synthesis of nanophase silicon, carbon, and silicon carbide powders using a plasma expansion process

Nanophase powders of Si, C, and SiC with narrow size distributions are synthesized by dissociating reactants in a dc arc plasma and quenching the hot gases in a subsonic nozzle expansion. The plasma is characterized by calorimetric energy balances and the powders by on-line aerosol measurement techniques and conventional materials analysis. The measured nozzle quench rate is about 5 X 106 K/s. ...

Microwave synthesis of phase-pure, fine silicon carbide powder

Fine, monophasic silicon carbide powder has been synthesized by direct solid-state reaction of its constituents namely silicon and carbon in a 2.45 GHz microwave field. Optimum parameters for the silicon carbide phase formation have been determined by varying reaction time and reaction temperature. The powders have been characterized for their particle size, surface area, phase composition (X-r...

Combustion Synthesis of Silicon Carbide

Combustion synthesis (CS) is an effective technique to produce a wide variety of advanced materials that include powders and net shape products of ceramics, intermetallics, composites and functionally graded materials. This method was discovered in the beginning of 1970's in the former Soviet Union (Merzhanov & Borovinskaya, 1972), and the development of this technique has led to the appearance...

Silicon carbide nanostructures: a tight binding approach.

A tight-binding model Hamiltonian is newly parametrized for silicon carbide based on fits to a database of energy points calculated within the density functional theory approach of the electronic energy surfaces of nanoclusters and the total energy of bulk 3C and 2H polytypes at different densities. This TB model includes s and p angular momentum symmetries with nonorthogonal atomic basis funct...

Silicon Nitride and Silicon Carbide