About PBN
Pyrolytic boron nitride is abbreviated as Pyrolytic BN or PBN, also known as Chemical vapor-deposited Boron Nitride, or CVD-BN, since PBN is mainly obtained by chemical vapor deposition. When it comes to boron nitride, we must talk about its two main structures: hexagonal and cubic. Hexagonal boron nitride and graphite are very similar in many respects, and thus hexagonal boron nitride is also called white graphite.
The pyrolytic boron nitride we talked about is the hexagonal boron nitride. The PBN prepared by chemical vapor deposition is characterized by excellent thermal stability, intrinsic purity and much greater mechanical strength, which make PBN very attractive to many industry sectors such as semiconductor, photovoltaic, coatings on gGraphite and crystal growth crucibles.
Structure of PBN
Pyrolytic boron nitride (PBN) belongs to the hexagonal system and is a typical layered material. The inter-layer and intra-layer atom spacing are quite different: the inter-layer atom spacing is 3.33 Å, and the intra-layer atom spacing is 1.45 Å. The structure of the PBN is composed of B and N atoms alternately arranged in the layer and in the C-axis direction, respectively. It can be observed under a high power microscope that PBN exhibits stacking faults, resulting in the average layer spacing greater than the theoretical layer spacing.
Features of PBN
PBN is an advanced material with excellent properties. It is deposited by the reaction of ammonia and boron halide under high temperature and high vacuum conditions. It can be deposited as PBN sheet material or directly into PBN final products such as tubes, rings or thin-walled containers. Unlike ordinary hot-pressed boron nitride (BN), PBN does not have to undergo a conventional hot press sintering process and does not add any sintering agent, so the obtained product has the following remarkable features:
Excellent thermal conductivity
Extreme high purity with low density
High insulation resistance
High dielectric strength over a wide range of temperature
Non-wetting
Non-toxic
Non-reactive to most other compounds
Very easily machined
Compared with normal boron nitride ceramic, pyrolytic boron nitride (PBN) has much better purity level and density. SAM provides PBN crucibles with high purity and competitive price. We offer LEC crucibles, MBE crucibles and VGF crucibles made by CVD process with PBN material. Please visit https://www.sputtertargets.net/ for more information.
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