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AFAIK you can still only buy diamond diodes outside of secret military stuff, and even those are not at all accessible. Sadly GaN suffers from horrible p-chann
by namibj 2y ago
AFAIK you can still only buy diamond diodes outside of secret military stuff, and even those are not at all accessible.
Sadly GaN suffers from horrible p-channels (they use resistor/nmos logic as the non-differential logic family for GaN ICs), and SiC from kinda sorta delaminating gate oxide (JFETs are fine though, and vertical ones are very nicely behaved, including a lot of resilience like avalanche resistance (though actual (non-capacitive) current flow through the gate junction has to be limited to prevent damage)).
N-type diamond is just difficult, along with diamond itself at a purity approximating "intrinsic"/"none" levels of doping.
The issue is that you have to continually etch graphitic carbon during the CVD process, requiring aggressive chemistry.
- regularfry 2y agoImpure diamonds for semiconductors were a plot device in Michael Crichton's Congo. I never knew if there was much basis to it.