How to Use silicon carbide in a Sentence

silicon carbide

noun
  • But unlike amateur scopes, the optical truss is made of silicon carbide.
    — Diane Hope, Ars Technica, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Abuelsamid said using silicon carbide will boost EV range by about 8% to 10%.
    — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 4 Oct. 2021
  • Porsche The rear drive unit uses silicon carbide power electronics.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Still, the electric-vehicle market alone has kept demand for silicon carbide booming.
    — Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Lee creates the volcanic effect by mixing her custom glazes with silicon carbide, which causes tiny explosions in the kiln.
    — Aileen Kwun David Chow, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2022
  • It was filled with a silicon-carbide pre-ceramic polymer and heat-treated to form amorphous silicon carbide.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2025
  • And that was just weeks after debuting a new in-house 750 kW silicon carbide inverter.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 19 Sep. 2022
  • The heat and pressure caused the silicon carbide to react with the water, resulting in the creation of diamonds and silica.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 14 Sep. 2020
  • More recently, substances such as gallium nitride and silicon carbide have been put to use in chips that power electric vehicles.
    — Belle Lin, WSJ, 12 Jan. 2024
  • But silicon carbide is 60 percent less sensitive to cosmic rays than silicon.
    — Debbie G. Senesky, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
  • The scientists placed silicon carbide, which includes silicon and carbon, in water.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 14 Sep. 2020
  • The grains comprised of aluminum, silver iodine, phosphide, and silicon carbide, as well as a compound of nickel and phosphorus, with very little iron.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 2 June 2022
  • The front drive unit uses silicon semiconductors, and the rear uses more efficient silicon carbide.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 16 Dec. 2021
  • Both silicon carbide and gallium nitride’s potential to perform under such extreme conditions comes from their wide bandgaps.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Aug. 2025
  • All told, our single-phase silicon carbide SST was a third the size of its conventional counterpart.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 29 June 2017
  • Its lenses aren’t made from traditional glass or plastic but rather a refractive material called silicon carbide.
    — Jonathan Vanian, CNBC, 27 Sep. 2024
  • If testing proves successful, the silicon carbide composite could be used not only in fission power plants but may be applied to nuclear fusion projects as well.
    — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 May 2023
  • And if there was any doubt about the benefits of silicon carbide over silicon, it could be resolved by comparing those two SSTs.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 29 June 2017
  • Why silicon carbide matters Silicon carbide is a wide band gap semiconductor.
    — Aditya Jadhav, Interesting Engineering, 1 June 2026
  • The researchers took X-ray measurements of the laser heating to determine the reaction between the silicon carbide and water.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 14 Sep. 2020
  • One particular hurdle will be figuring out how to get mass quantities of silicon carbide, which is used for the displays in the Orion lenses.
    — Salvador Rodriguez,jonathan Vanian, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2024
  • The money will support its new silicon carbide factory in North Carolina that makes the wafers used in advanced computer chips.
    — Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Mantooth’s lab also fabricates high-temperature chips, and is working on getting silicon carbide to hit the heat levels that Chu’s chips have.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Gallium nitride also has unique features compared to silicon carbide which allow its chips to perform better under high-heat conditions.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Rawlinson said that the Air has also moved to a new in-house silicon carbide inverter, as well as a switch from induction to permanent magnet motors front and rear.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 9 June 2020
  • The gallium nitride circuit’s victory against its silicon carbide companions may not last long, however.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Aug. 2025
  • At the time, few manufacturers looked at silicon carbide power electronics for road-going EVs.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 30 Nov. 2022
  • The silicon and carbon in silicon carbide bond very strongly, permitting them to survive extreme temperatures.
    — Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 21 Sep. 2010
  • In the last 10 years, great strides have been made in the development of switches based on compound semiconductors—silicon carbide in particular.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 29 June 2017
  • The high production cost is in large part due to the difficulty of growing silicon carbide crystals for the lenses and etching the waveguides to focus the projections onto your retina.
    — Moin Roberts-Islam, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024

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