# 10. Specialities

## 10.1 Siliconcarbide and Diamond

### 10.1.2 Siliconcarbide - Applications, Devices and Processing

Epitaxy

Silicon carbide electronics develops unique, high power microwave, temperature-tolerant, and radiation-hard electronics based on the wide band-gap semiconductors silicon carbide and gallium nitride. The focus is on demonstrating high quality crystal substrates, uniform large area epitaxial layers, advanced device designs and fabrication processes, and making custom devices. Major applications include surveillance and tactical radar, low-cost communications transmitters, power devices for electric vehicles and aircraft, rad-hard nuclear and satellite instrumentation, and low power nonvolatile memories.

Dmitriev: Specifies devices with dates; not yet inproduction