How to Use silicon carbide in a Sentence

silicon carbide

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• Abuelsamid said using silicon carbide will boost EV range by about 8% to 10%.
  — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 4 Oct. 2021
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 publication says this is largely because the devices will need to be made in the U.S., as the lenses need silicon carbide and the government won’t allow the material to be exported to China.
  — Byalexandra Sternlicht, Fortune, 11 Aug. 2023
• Working with qubits in solid silicon carbide, the scientists extended the time in quantum state of their qubit to 22 milliseconds, which sounds small to our slow human brains, but is almost an eternity for a qubit.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 21 Aug. 2020
• According to The Information, Meta had originally planned to use silicon carbide, which allowed for a 70-degree field of view.
  — Emma Roth, The Verge, 19 July 2023
• Still, the electric-vehicle market alone has kept demand for silicon carbide booming.
  — Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2022
• Beyond that, the technique could be used to test new materials, such as silicon carbide, or new forms of heat shield that use a mixture of passive materials that ablate and other components that don’t.
  — Amit Katwala, Wired, 15 Nov. 2021
• 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
• That should serve as a humbling reminder to investors about how challenging silicon carbide is to scale; Wolfspeed has been working with the material for its entire 35-year existence.
  — Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2022
• 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
• The front drive unit uses silicon semiconductors, and the rear uses more efficient silicon carbide.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 16 Dec. 2021
• During testing, with liquid silicon stored at 3,600 degrees F for around an hour, the silicon did transform into silicon carbide.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 6 Dec. 2018
• At the time, few manufacturers looked at silicon carbide power electronics for road-going EVs.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 30 Nov. 2022
• The company's engineers confirmed that the RN22e shares its motors with the Kia, with the rear motor using a dual-stage inverter that features silicon carbide semiconductors.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 9 Sep. 2022
• The scientists placed silicon carbide, which includes silicon and carbon, in water.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 14 Sep. 2020
• Some 7 billion or 8 billion years ago, specks of stardust were ejected from supernovae and the outer atmospheres of aging stars, some made of hardy materials such as graphite, diamond, and silicon carbide.
  — Joshua Sokol, Science | AAAS, 13 Aug. 2020
• Notably, Porsche has moved to silicon carbide for the power electronics, which reduces switching losses and allows for higher switching frequencies.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 13 Nov. 2022
• That’s because Tesla has produced its chips in-house for years, made with a new material technology called silicon carbide that reduces reliance on pure silicon.
  — Eliza Haverstock, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2021
• The transmission is integrated into the unit, as is the inverter, which uses more efficient silicon carbide semiconductors that boost range by about five percent.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 2 Dec. 2020
• At the same time, the government plans to maintain U.S. leadership in compound semiconductors, such as gallium nitride and silicon carbide, and other specialty chips.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Mar. 2023
• These beads, each only a millimeter in diameter and the consistency of a jelly bean, are then put in a furnace that is injected with gases that break down in the oven, depositing thin layers of graphite and silicon carbide around the uranium kernel.
  — Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 30 June 2020
• For example, the microfactories can break down old smartphones and computer monitors and extract silica (from the glass) and carbon (from the plastic casing), and then combine them into silicon carbide nanowires.
  — Allison Whitten, Discover Magazine, 14 Feb. 2021
• The silicon and carbon in silicon carbide bond very strongly, permitting them to survive extreme temperatures.
  — Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 21 Sep. 2010
• The motors are an evolution of the permanent magnet synchronous motors in the Taycan, with better water cooling, and the inverter uses silicon carbide instead of silicon.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 9 Oct. 2023
• So while organizations like NASA have done silicon carbide research, the material hasn't spread to a multitude of applications.
  — Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 21 Sep. 2010

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024