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Hi

What follows is a good summarry of the SiC stuff. I hope it will help
you.

Christophe


http://www.csc.fi/sic/contents.html

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SiC Research



  
SiCEPS, Silicon Carbide Electrical Powder Systems,
      a national research project in Sweden.

  
SiC electronics group
      at Industrial Microelectronics Center, Stockholm.
      Mostly power devices.
      A motivation for SiC research.

  
Linköping University,
      Growth and charcaterisation for optoelectronic and power
      device applications, Mikael Syväjärvis page on
      SiC growth.

  
PhysTech-WBG,
      Physics & Technology of Wide BandGap Semiconductors.
      Based at the Ioffe Institute in St.Petersburg.

  
SiC page by Wirgil Shields,
      The Jet Propulsion Laboratory's SiC technology development program.

  
SiC electronics at NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio.
      Examples of SiC-based electronics in hostile environments,
      Recent developments.

  
Purdue WBG,
      Wide band gap semiconductor device research program
      at Purdue University.

  
SiC Research at Auburn University, mostly device technology

  
SiC Research
      at Case Western Reserve University.
      Also
      first-principles computations of SiC properties.

  
Nanolab,
      wide-bandgap semiconductor research, particularly thin films of SiC,
      at University of Cincinnati's Nanoelectronics Lab.

  
CSC,
      modeling of silicon carbide crystal growth phenomena.



SiC Business



   
Cree Research Inc.,
        provider of SiC wafers and LEDs. Dominating player in the field.

   
Epitronics,
        wide bandgap materials, including SiC wafers.

   
SiCrystal AG,
       development and manufacturing of SiC wafers.

   
TDI, Technologies and Devices International, Inc.,
       SiC wafers.

   
Morton's SiC, commercial CVD grown layers of SiC.

   
Sterling Semiconductor, manufacturer of
       silicon carbide materials for semiconductors.

   
Novecon Technologies,
       single-crystal SiC.
       Particularly SiC related patents,
       US
and
       Internatinal.

   
Wafer Technology, particularly
       SiC wafers.

   
Boston Electronics Corporation,
       electronic and optical materials and devices,
       particularly
       SiC photodiodes.

   
Blue SiC LEDs by Siemens

   
Hoya Corporation, 3C-SiC on Si substrate.

   
 Northrop Grumman Corporation High power microwave,
       temperature-tolerant, and radiation-hard electronics based
       on WBG semiconductors, SiC and GaN

   
EMCORE,
       EMCORE Corporation manufactures deposition systems
       for the production of advanced semiconductor materials.

   
Aixtron,
       company for CVD engineering.

   
Epigress AB,
        Process equipment for bulk and CVD growth of SiC.

   
3C Semiconductor Corporation
        Technolgy for SiC semiconductor devices.
 


SiC Information


 

  
HITEN
      High Temperature Electronics Network. Lot of information
      and links.

  
Silicon carbide page,
      including
      links and
      introduction to SiC. Emphasis on
      ceramic SiC.

  
Many of the articles on SiC are published in
      The Journal of The Electrochemical Society and
      Journal of Crystal Growth.

  
Picture of the SiC crystal structure at CalTech

  
AFM image of SiC screw dislocation of SiC by Park Scientific Instruments.

  
SiC [110],
      a high resolution image at University of Melbourne.



SiC Happenings



  
ICSCIII-N '97,
      International Conference on
      Silicon Carbide,
      III-Nitrides and
      Related Materials -
      1997,
      was held in
      Stockholm August 31 - September 5
      (Proceedings).
      Next conference will be organized by Cree Research Inc.
      It will be held in Durham, North Carolina in autumn 1999.
  

      ICCG 12,
      The Twelfth International Conference on Crystal Growth,
      Jerusalem, Israel, July 26-31, 1998.
  
ECSCRM'98, 2nd European Conference on Silicon Carbide and
      Related Materials, Montpellier, France,
      September 2-4, 1998.



Crystal Growth Modeling



  
CVD Sciences
      at Sandia Laboratories,
      Simulations: general CVD,
      massively parallel,
      Design optimization.

  
CVD Research
      at Colorado State University, particularly
      Chemkin manuals and
      recent publications,
      Software tools for reactive gases.

  
TCC,
      a CHEMKIN based interactive WWW tool which carries out calculations
      for reacting ideal gas mixtures (e.g. the Si-C-H system).

  
Process Modeling on WWW Virtual Library.

  
CFD Resources Online
      A very comprehensive list of CFD related services
      maintained by Jonas Larsson.





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