How to Use silicon nitride in a Sentence

silicon nitride

noun
  • This enabled wafer-scale growth of monolayer tungsten silicon nitride films with tunable doping properties.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 12 Apr. 2026
  • To solve the photon loss in the waveguides, the NIST researchers used low-loss waveguides made out of silicon nitride.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Nov. 2017
  • The sacrificial template is a thin silicon nitride membrane supported by a silicon frame.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Aug. 2019
  • The system used silicon nitride waveguides to deliver laser beams into a vacuum cell filled with rubidium vapor.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Finally, the silicon nitride membrane is etched away, leaving the tungsten disulfide crystal suspended in the silicon frame.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Aug. 2019
  • During firing, the glass frit melts and etches through the silicon nitride anti-reflection layer, allowing silver to alloy with silicon and form an ohmic contact.
    — Ni Tao, Interesting Engineering, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Intermixing at the interface between the diamond and silicon nitride led to the formation of silicon carbide, which acted as a kind of bridge for the phonons, allowing more efficient heat transfer.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 20 Oct. 2025
  • To address the issue of photons getting lost in their launch from the source to the waveguides, the NIST researchers have put the source directly on the chip, and created a geometry to launch them directly into the silicon nitride waveguides with high efficiency.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Nov. 2017
  • In that environment, insulating materials that are available for the job, such as PE-CVD silicon oxide or silicon nitride, have quite a few defects that are too lossy for quantum computing applications.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 7 Feb. 2022
  • The main difference was that the edges of high-resistivity wafers were left without silicon nitride during chemical vapor deposition, leaving the SiOx/n-poly-Si passivation layer unprotected and partially removed during wet chemical cleaning.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 14 Feb. 2026
  • His lab is working on heat-tolerant materials like silicon nitride and titanium nitride, aiming for a sail that can withstand temperatures of around 1,000 degrees Celsius (that's 1,832 degrees Fahrenheit) for long enough to pull off a sun-dive.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Space.com, 31 May 2026
  • From a device-performance standpoint, monolayer tungsten silicon nitride combines several key advantages, including strong hole mobility and high on-state current density, alongside robust mechanical strength, efficient heat dissipation, and solid chemical stability.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 12 Apr. 2026

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