{"id":243244,"date":"2026-08-27T01:26:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T06:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/researchers-solve-two-major-problems-holding-back-sic-electronics"},"modified":"2026-08-27T01:26:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T06:26:40","slug":"researchers-solve-two-major-problems-holding-back-sic-electronics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/researchers-solve-two-major-problems-holding-back-sic-electronics","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Solve Two Major Problems Holding Back SiC Electronics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-solve-two-major-problems-holding-back-sic-electronics2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A new bottom gate design takes advantage of the intrinsic properties of SiC.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For more than 20 years, silicon carbide \u2013 SiC \u2013 has been viewed as a promising material for electronics that must function in extreme environments. Yet despite years of research, that promise has rarely translated into practical devices. Researchers at Kyoto University are now trying to move the field beyond that barrier.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe the lack of development is because the research community has been trying to apply silicon-era thinking to a fundamentally different material,\u201d says first author Mitsuaki Kaneko.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new bottom gate design takes advantage of the intrinsic properties of SiC. For more than 20 years, silicon carbide \u2013 SiC \u2013 has been viewed as a promising material for electronics that must function in extreme environments. Yet despite years of research, that promise has rarely translated into practical devices. Researchers at Kyoto University [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}