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Silicon carbide (SiC) is an important technological material, but its high-temperature phase diagram has remained unclear due to conflicting experimental results about congruent versus incongruent melting. Here, we employ large-scale…
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Cubic silicon carbide (3C-SiC) is an emerging material for high power and new generation devices, but the development of high quality 3C-SiC layer still represents a scientific and technological challenge especially when grown on a Si…
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Silicon carbide has excellent physical properties, such as high stability, thermal conductivity, and mechanical strength. It has been widely used in high-power devices, catalysis, material processing, and other fields and is of great…
Here, we report the first successful exfoliation of two-dimensional Ti$_3$C$_2$T$_x$ MXene through selective etching of silicon from titanium silicon carbide (Ti$_3$SiC$_2$) MAX. The successful etching and exfoliation of MXene is confirmed…
Applied magnetic fields can alter phase equilibria and kinetics in steels; however, quantitatively resolving how magnetic, chemical, and elastic driving forces jointly influence the microstructure remains challenging. We develop a…
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Controlling polytype selection in polymer-derived silicon carbide (SiC) remains challenging since stacking sequences are determined locally at the nucleation front. Here, we demonstrate an interface-driven strategy to bias SiC polytype…
We present the very first demonstration of a maser utilizing silicon vacancies (VSi) within 4H silicon carbide (SiC). Leveraging an innovative feedback-loop technique, we elevate the resonator's quality factor, enabling maser operation even…
Silicon carbide is a hard, semiconducting material presenting many polytypes, whose behavior under extreme conditions of pressure and temperature has attracted large interest. Here we study the mechanical properties of 3C-SiC over a wide…
The mechanical behavior of a Mo-TiC30 vol.% ceramic-metal composite was investigated over a large temperature range (25^{\circ}C to 700^{\circ}C). High-energy X-ray tomography was used to reveal the percolation of the hard titanium carbide…
Based on the parameters from published ab-inito theoretical and experimental studies, and combining Molecular Dynamics (MD) and kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) simulations, a framework of multi-scale modeling is developed to investigate the…
Silicon together with its native oxide SiO$_2$ was recognized as an outstanding material system for the semiconductor industry in the 1950s. In state-of-the-art device technology, SiO$_2$ is widely used as an insulator in combination with…
Silicon carbide (SiC) is an essential material for next generation semiconductors and components for nuclear plants. It's applications are strongly dependent on its thermal conductivity, which is highly sensitive to microstructures.…
In the manufacturing process of high-performance particulate materials, viscous sintering plays a crucial role, particularly in fields such as polymer processing and additive manufacturing. The interactions between microscopic particles,…
We investigate the growth of the graphene buffer layer and the involved step bunching behavior of the silicon carbide substrate surface using atomic force microscopy. The formation of local buffer layer domains are identified to be the…