What Is a Silicon Carbide Crystal?
Silicon carbide crystal is an inert ceramic composed of silicon and carbon. With excellent thermal conductivity, superior mechanical resilience, wide bandgap transmission properties and high electric field breakdown strength it has many applications; making it especially suitable for creating high frequency electronic devices resistant to radiation and power levels. SiC exists in various atomic structures known as polytypes. Common examples are 4H-SiC, 6H-SiC, 3C-SiC (Zinc Blende), and hexagonal wurtzite. Hardness Silicon carbide has an exceptional hardness rating of 9 on Mohs scale – comparable to diamond. This makes it suitable for high impact resistance applications like cutting and grinding wheels, abrasive paper/cloth/ceramics/ballistic ceramics as well as its excellent thermal conductivity, …