Two major kinds of silicon carbide crystal
Post Date: 02 Sep 2011 Viewed: 524
There are two major kinds of silicon carbide crystal and more than 200 variants. Compared with another artificial smelting material, the alumina oxide, which is well known for people, silicon carbide has a higher hardness, better performance in the high temperature, and higher abrasive resistance, higher heat conductivity, lower expansion rate and much steadier chemical property. For more than 100 years, it has been widely used in fields such as machinery, chemical, light textile, papermaking, mine, traffic, metallurgy, electron, building materials, ceramic, and nuclear energy. The main pusher behind the explosive growth in recent years is from the demand of photovoltaic industry, LED, and the ceramic process industry. The main regions for producing silicon carbide in China are eight provinces, Jilin, Henan, Qinghai, Gansu, Ningxia, Sichuan, Guizhou, and Hubei.