SiC Materials and Applications
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Physics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2021) | Viewed by 39416
Special Issue Editor
Interests: wide-bandgap semiconductors (diamond, silicon carbide, gallium nitride, gallium oxide, boron nitride, etc.); photoluminescence; imaging; point defects; dislocations; stacking faults; single-photon sources; electron spins; spintronics; nano/quantum structure; quantum beam irradiation; quantum entanglement; quantum sensor; quantum information technology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Silicon carbide (SiC) is a compound semiconductor composed of Si and diamond (C). This means that SiC has the advantages of both Si and C. Advances in the crystal growth technologies of SiC have enabled the mass production of large-scale wafer and, in addition, the device fabrication techniques of SiC have been consistently matured, which are similar to the case of Si. On the other hand, SiC is a very firm and wide bandgap material, features which are common to diamond. Accordingly, also SiC enables the epoch-making technologies of diamond such as ultra-low power-loss devices for eco-electronics, radiation-resistive electronics for nuclear/aerospace applications, and realizations of room temperature and ambient pressure drivable quantum devices. Furthermore, SiC has advantages as a compound semiconductor such as crystallographic polarity, quantum effect nano-structures (e.g., stacking fault), and so on.
This Special Issue of Materials, entitled “SiC Materials and Applications” is focused on recent progress in all topics related to SiC materials and devices. We invite the submission of research articles (full papers, communications, and reviews) focusing on recent developments in the crystal growth, processing, design, modeling, and characterization of SiC materials and devices.
We will accept articles in distinct areas of applications and a wide range of topics on both experimental and theoretical works, and the topics to be covered in this Special Issue will include but are not limited to:
-Bulk/epitaxial growth and wafer manufacturing;
-Defect visualization, characterization, and engineering
-Device processing, modeling and design, including their underlying physics;
-Surfaces and interfaces (including MOS interfaces) characterizations and processing;
-Fundamental properties and technologies for quantum device applications;
-Device physics in power, radiation-hard, optical, bio-medical, etc. applications.
Prof. Yasuto Hijikata
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- silicon carbide
- power devices
- defect engineering
- MOS interface
- radiation-hard devices
- technologies for quantum application
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