Abstract: According to one embodiment, a photoconductive semiconductor switch includes a structure of nanopowder of a high band gap material, where the nanopowder is optically transparent, and where the nanopowder has a physical characteristic of formation from a sol-gel process. According to another embodiment, a method includes mixing a sol-gel precursor compound, a hydroxy benzene and an aldehyde in a solvent thereby creating a mixture, causing the mixture to gel thereby forming a wet gel, drying the wet gel to form a nanopowder, and applying a thermal treatment to form a SiC nanopowder.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 15, 2013
Date of Patent:
September 27, 2016
Assignee:
Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC
Inventors:
Richard L. Landingham, Joe Satcher, Jr., Robert Reibold