Tiny chip as hot as Venus
News What sets the company's technology apart is that it is a chip sculpted out of a single sliver of silicon carbide. Silicon carbide is stable at high temperatures, but also impervious to chemical attack from most materials.
[July 5, 2004, 14:35]
Breakthrough promises hotter, tougher, faster chips
News Researchers led by Daisuke Nakamura of Toyota Central R&D Laboratories Inc.of Aichi, Japan, have described a way to build up very low defect wafers of silicon carbide (SiC), an essential step in mass-producing electronic devices from the compound.
[August 26, 2004, 16:30]
Shouldn't your servers be sweating?
Blog Comment Materials used up to 300oC include bulk silicon and silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technologies; for higher temperatures, gallium arsenide (GaAs), silicon carbide (SiC), and diamond show promise, and devices have been demonstrated at 500oC.
[August 13, 2009, 9:34]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Silicon carbide might be a good starting material. So instead of creating loads and loads of silicon cores running at a few GHz and a meagre 100°C, we need a few absolutely incandescent devices throbbing away at terahertz and spewing out kilowatts...
[February 3, 2006, 16:55]
