5G communications, electric vehicles and other emerging industries on silicon carbide materials will generate huge demand, vigorously develop the silicon carbide industry, can lead to drive raw materials and equipment two hundred billion industry, help China to accelerate the pace of transformation and development to high-end materials, high-end equipment manufacturing.
The “14th Five-Year Plan” and “2035 Visionary Goals Outline” released this year proposed that China will accelerate the industrialization process of the third generation of new semiconductor materials and technologies represented by silicon carbide and gallium nitride, and give birth to a number of new material enterprises with high growth rate.
Science and Technology Daily reporter July 18 interview with industry experts found that they have a positive attitude toward the development of China’s third-generation semiconductor, and that the third generation of semiconductor materials may provide a good opportunity for us to get rid of the passive situation of integrated circuits, chip technology to catch up and overtake the car.
Silicon carbide has significant performance advantages and a wide range of applications
The development of semiconductor industry has experienced three stages. The first generation of semiconductor materials is represented by silicon; Gallium arsenide, the second generation semiconductor material, has also been widely used; The third generation semiconductor materials represented by silicon carbide have significant performance advantages over the previous two generations.
Silicon carbide, also known as carborundum, is a rare mineral that also exists in nature and is industrially produced by smelting quartz sand, petroleum coke (or coal coke), and wood chips as raw materials through high temperature in resistance furnaces.