Download or read book Silicon Carbide and Related Materials, Proceedings of the Fifth Conference, 1-3 November 1993, Washington DC, USA written by Michael G. Spencer and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1994-06-29 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: USA companies working in this area include Westinghouse. This material is being investigated primarily in the USA, Japan and Russia alongside that into wide-gap compounds which feature similar characteristics. Applications include high temperature ultra-violet lasers, photodiodes, photodetectors, blue LEDs, high power microwave applications in radar and transmitter devices Special sale to delegates 200 @ 35 Previous volumes in series published by Springer Leading workers in field include Pavlidis (MIT) and Choyke (Pittsburgh, Dept Phys) Feng author is also presenting paper Research in this area is expanding