Single-shot nanosecond risetime pulse testing of SiC devices is demonstrated to reveal unique and highly crucial device performance information not obtainable by conventional DC and RF electrical testing. This paper describes some strikingly important device behaviors observed during pulse-testing experiments of 4H-SiC pn junction diodes. Specific observations include: 1) a remarkably fast and ...

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. ...

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. ...

A new species of abertellid sand dollar, Abertella miskellyi n. sp., is described from the Miocene Camarones Formation of Patagonia, southern Argentina. The new taxon corroborates the existence of the genus in South America, given that Abertella is most common in the southeastern USA and the eastern coast of Central America. It is characterized by a unique basicoronal circle, in which the inter...

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...