5-6-1 SiC Optoelectronic Devices
The wide bandgap of SiC is useful for realizing short-wavelength blue and ultraviolet (UV) optoelectronics.
6H-SiC-based pn junction light-emitting diodes (LEDs) were the first semiconductor devices
to cover the blue portion of the visible color spectrum, and became the first SiC-based devices to [...]
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5-7 Future of SiC
It can be safely predicted that SiC will never displace silicon as the dominant semiconductor used for the manufacture of the vast majority of the world’s electronic chips that are primarily low-voltage digital and analog chips targeted for operation in normal [...]
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5-6-4-1-1 SiC Schottky Power Rectifiers.
4H-SiC power Schottky diodes (with rated blocking voltages up to 1200 V and rated on-state currents up to 20 A as of this writing) are now commercially available . The basic structure of these unipolar diodes is a patterned metal [...]
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2-17.Polytypes
Many compound materials exhibit polymorphism, that is they can exist in different structures called polymorphs. Silicon carbide (SiC) is unique in this regard as more than 250 polymorphs of silicon carbide had been identified by 2006,with some of them having a lattice constant as [...]
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2-27.BOW
Bow is the deviation of the center point of the median surface of a free, un-clamped wafer from the median surface to the reference plane. Where the reference plane is defined by three corners of equilateral triangle. This definition is based on now obsolete [...]
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5-4-1 Historical Lack of SiC Wafers
Reproducible wafers of reasonable consistency, size, quality, and availability are a prerequisite for
commercial mass production of semiconductor electronics. Many semiconductor materials can be melted
and reproducibly recrystallized into large single crystals with the aid of a seed crystal, such as [...]
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