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
• But unlike amateur scopes, the optical truss is made of silicon carbide.
  — Diane Hope, Ars Technica, 12 Dec. 2023
• 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
• 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 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
• Porsche The rear drive unit uses silicon carbide power electronics.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 25 Jan. 2024
• 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
• But silicon carbide is 60 percent less sensitive to cosmic rays than silicon.
  — Debbie G. Senesky, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
• 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
• Realizing that silicon carbide might have the right properties to work in space set the direction for my career, which combines materials studies with space exploration.
  — Debbie G. Senesky, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
• 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
• These high-performance braking systems use a brake rotor made from a mixture of carbon, ceramics, epoxy resin, silicon carbide, and carbon fiber (the ingredients are baked together in a mold at high temperatures to form the rotor).
  — Michael Harley, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Dec 2024