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Nasa Glenn Research Center, Silicon Carbide Electronics and Sensors, (> 500ºC)
Ozark ICs. Designs from -180°C to 500°C.
NASA Glenn is working on 4-bit ADC, 4-bit DAC, Op Amps, 4x4 static RAM, Source Separation Sensor Signal Transmitter, Ring Oscillators, Binary Amplitude Modulation RF Transmitter. [1]
Is NASA Glenn working on bandgap reference, a resonator, a ROM, or digital components that can be used for a microcontroller?
High-temperature voltage and current references have been designed in a silicon carbide CMOS process [4]
[1] PowerPoint Presentation, "Processing and Characterization of Thousand- Hour 500 °C Durable 4H-SiC JFET Integrated Circuits"
[2] "Emerging Trends in Silicon Carbide Power Electronics Design", Emerging Trends in Silicon Carbide Power Electronics Design
[3] A. Rahman, P. D. Shepherd, S. A. Bhuyan, S. Ahmed, S. K. Akula, L. Caley, H. A. Mantooth, and J. Di, “A family of CMOS analog and mixed signal circuits in SiC for high temperature electronics,” in 2015 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MT, 2015, pp. 1-10.
[4] "High-Temperature Voltage and Current References in Silicon Carbide CMOS", 2016.
[5] N. Kuhns et al., "Complex High-Temperature CMOS Silicon Carbide Digital Circuit Designs," in IEEE Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 105-111, June 2016, doi: 10.1109/TDMR.2016.2530664.