Turning Up the Light: Harnessing the Potential of Silicon Carbide in Optomechanical Devices (UF ECE)
UF researchers, in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), have developed a chip-sized device that uses forces exerted by photons to “strum” a single-crystal 4H silicon carbide (SiC) microdisk, causing it to vibrate at detectable frequencies.