Heat of combustion of silicon and silicon carbide

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 Nitride and Silicon Carbide

Silicon and Silicon Carbide Survivability in an In-Cylinder Combustion Environment

Silicon Carbide is often proposed as a sensor material for use in harsh environment applications such as monitoring gas turbines and internal combustion engines. However, little SiC survivability research has been reported for these environments. In this work, data is reported for silicon and amorphous silicon carbide (a-SiC) coated die survivability in a combustion engine with an exhaust tempe...

Specific heat of aluminium-doped superconducting silicon carbide

The discoveries of superconductivity in heavily boron-doped diamond, silicon and silicon carbide renewed the interest in the ground states of charge-carrier doped wide-gap semiconductors. Recently, aluminium doping in silicon carbide successfully yielded a metallic phase from which at high aluminium concentrations superconductivity emerges. Here, we present a specific-heat study on superconduct...

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.