silicon carbide
noun
: a very hard dark crystalline compound SiC of silicon and carbon that is used as an abrasive and as a refractory and in electric resistors
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Materials like gallium nitride, silicon carbide, and aluminium nitride could be used for everything from 5G towers and electric vehicles to aviation.
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Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 31 Dec. 2025
MUSiC will provide domestic opportunities for prototyping, proof-of-principle demonstrations and device design incorporating silicon carbide, while its facilities and services will be available to external researchers and industry.
—Ryan Anderson, Arkansas Online, 15 Nov. 2025
By contrast, doing it with a mix of materials—gallium nitride, silicon carbide, and other semiconductors—could deliver a 100-fold boost, Holmes told engineers and other interested parties at the program’s unofficial coming out party, the NGMM Summit, late last month.
—IEEE Spectrum, 10 Nov. 2025
These materials include aluminum, cobalt, copper, dysprosium, electrical steel, fluorine, gallium, iridium, lithium, magnesium, graphite, neodymium, nickel, platinum, praseodymium, silicon, silicon carbide and terbium.
—Sahit Muja, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
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Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 31 Dec. 2025
MUSiC will provide domestic opportunities for prototyping, proof-of-principle demonstrations and device design incorporating silicon carbide, while its facilities and services will be available to external researchers and industry.
—Ryan Anderson, Arkansas Online, 15 Nov. 2025
By contrast, doing it with a mix of materials—gallium nitride, silicon carbide, and other semiconductors—could deliver a 100-fold boost, Holmes told engineers and other interested parties at the program’s unofficial coming out party, the NGMM Summit, late last month.
—IEEE Spectrum, 10 Nov. 2025
These materials include aluminum, cobalt, copper, dysprosium, electrical steel, fluorine, gallium, iridium, lithium, magnesium, graphite, neodymium, nickel, platinum, praseodymium, silicon, silicon carbide and terbium.
—Sahit Muja, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
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“Silicon carbide.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/silicon%20carbide. Accessed 10 Jan. 2026.
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