Why diamond?
You will be able to
- Explain why a larger bandgap and breakdown field matter for power and heat
- Compute a figure of merit relative to silicon
- Explain why deep dopants limit diamond at room temperature
2 · Play
Switch between diamond and silicon at true scale. Then open the Heat Race and compare the peak temperature rise of silicon and diamond at steady state. Is the ratio close to 22 / 1.5?
Open the lab →3 · ComputeOpen notebook in Colab
The same physics in Python. Run it in your browser with Colab, or locally after pip install -e .
from adamas import materials, doping
f = materials.normalized_foms()
print('Baliga figure of merit, diamond vs silicon:', round(f['Diamond']['BFOM']))
for key in ('Si:B', 'C:B', 'C:P'):
print(key, f"{100 * doping.ionized_fraction(doping.DOPANTS[key], 1e17):.2f} % ionized at 300 K")4 · Check