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If you are interested, read up on SiC, Silicon Carbide. It is better then Gallium Nitride and Silicon for high voltage power small electronics because it has hi
by arijon 11y ago
If you are interested, read up on SiC, Silicon Carbide. It is better then Gallium Nitride and Silicon for high voltage power small electronics because it has higher thermal conductivity. I randomly learned about it when I was fixing my cars breaks, apparently that is the material that is used :)
- blacksmith_tb 11y agoIt can also be quite pretty: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moissanite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moissanite
- ribs 11y agoDifficult to machine, though, I'd expect, being among the hardest of all known substances (the moissanite polymorph being just a bit softer than diamond, at a Mohs scale hardness of 9.5.)
- Florin_Andrei 11y ago> I randomly learned about it when I was fixing my cars breaks, apparently that is the material that is used :) What is it used for? I'm familiar with SiC in the form of grit (grinding agent, looks like fine-grained sand) when I'm making telescope optics. It's extremely hard, and it grinds glass better than anything except diamond.
- arijon 10y agoThe disk break...I guess because it has high thermal resistance. You make telescope optics? For fun or work? or both?
- Florin_Andrei 10y agoJust a hobby at the moment. Working on a 300 mm mirror right now.
- arijon 10y agoThat awesome dude. I got into amateur astronomy about two years ago when I first moved to the bay area from new york. I just purchased a celestron nextstar 4SE can't wait to test it out.
- madengr 11y agoGaN is grown on SiC; best of both.
- arijon 10y agoahh I didn't know that.