Abstract

Tantalum carbide (TaC) coating, produced in an ultrahigh temperature chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process, exhibited high thermal and chemical stabilities, low emissivity, and high purity. Low emissivity of 0.3~0.43 was measured on TaC coating at 1000°C and compared with the one of SiC coating. As revealed in both simulation and experiment, the low emissivity of TaC coatings not only improves temperature uniformity in the SiC PVT process, but also reduces power consumption in both SiC crystal growth and GaN epitaxial deposition. The results provide important guidance to process tuning when switching from a conventional graphite or SiC-coated component to its TaC-coated counterpart.

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