{"id":246790,"date":"2026-11-07T02:44:36","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T08:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/atom-scale-model-could-help-improve-material-growth-for-advanced-electronics"},"modified":"2026-11-07T02:44:36","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T08:44:36","slug":"atom-scale-model-could-help-improve-material-growth-for-advanced-electronics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/atom-scale-model-could-help-improve-material-growth-for-advanced-electronics","title":{"rendered":"Atom-scale model could help improve material growth for advanced electronics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Penn State researchers have refined an atom-scale model of how silicon carbide changes from a solid into vapor during crystal growth, work that could help manufacturers produce higher-quality material for advanced electronics while reducing costly trial-and-error experiments.<\/p>\n<p>The study, <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1021\/acs.jpcc.6c03672\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>The Journal of Physical Chemistry C<\/i>, is the first publication from Penn State\u2019s Silicon Carbide Innovation Alliance, or SCIA, an industry-university research partnership.<\/p>\n<p>Silicon carbide (SiC) is a crystalline material used in high-power electronics, including electric vehicles and clean-energy systems. As opposed to other crystals, which can be grown by melting the material and then cooling it into a solid, silicon carbide is grown using physical vapor transport (PVT). In this process, solid silicon carbide is heated until it turns directly into vapor, which then settles onto a seed crystal and builds a larger crystal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Penn State researchers have refined an atom-scale model of how silicon carbide changes from a solid into vapor during crystal growth, work that could help manufacturers produce higher-quality material for advanced electronics while reducing costly trial-and-error experiments. The study, published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, is the first publication from Penn State\u2019s Silicon [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,48,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-particle-physics","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246790","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=246790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}