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AlSiC, pronounced "alsick", [1] is a metal matrix composite consisting of aluminium matrix with silicon carbide particles. It has high thermal conductivity (180–200 W/m K), and its thermal expansion can be adjusted to match other materials, e.g. silicon and gallium arsenide chips and various ceramics.
Aluminium carbide is prepared by direct reaction of aluminium and carbon in an electric arc furnace. [3] 4 Al + 3 C → Al 4 C 3. An alternative reaction begins with alumina, but it is less favorable because of generation of carbon monoxide. 2 Al 2 O 3 + 9 C → Al 4 C 3 + 6 CO. Silicon carbide also reacts with aluminium to yield Al 4 C 3.
Silicon carbide is a semiconductor, which can be doped n-type by nitrogen or phosphorus and p-type by beryllium, boron, aluminium, or gallium. [5] Metallic conductivity has been achieved by heavy doping with boron, aluminium or nitrogen.
Aluminium-silicon alloys typically contain 3% to 25% silicon content. [1] Casting is the primary use of aluminum-silicon alloys, but they can also be utilized in rapid solidification processes and powder metallurgy. Alloys used by powder metallurgy, rather than casting, may contain even more silicon, up to 50%. [1]
AlSiC is an aluminium-silicon carbide composite for similar applications. Aluminium-Graphite composites are used in power electronic modules because of their high thermal conductivity, the adjustable coefficient of thermal expansion and the low density. MMCs are nearly always more expensive than the more conventional materials they are replacing.
Silicon carbide. Pure silicon carbide is one of the most corrosion-resistant materials. Only strong bases, oxygen above about 800 °C (1,470 °F), and molten metals react with it to form carbides and silicides. The reaction with oxygen forms SiO 2 and CO 2, whereby a surface layer of SiO 2 slows down subsequent oxidation (passive oxidation).
Boron carbide, B 4 C, on the other hand, has an unusual structure which includes icosahedral boron units linked by carbon atoms. In this respect boron carbide is similar to the boron rich borides. Both silicon carbide (also known as carborundum) and boron carbide are very hard materials and refractory. Both materials are important industrially.
Silicon carbide. Silicon carbide (SiC) was first made by Edward Goodrich Acheson in 1891, who named it carborundum to reference its intermediate hardness and abrasive power between diamond (an allotrope of carbon) and corundum (aluminium oxide). He soon founded a company to manufacture it, and today about one million tonnes are produced each ...
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