silicon nitride

English

Noun

silicon nitride (plural silicon nitrides)

1. (chemistry) An inorganic polymer, of empirical formula Si₃N₄, used in ceramics and some transistors.
   • 2005, Paolo Dario, Raja Chatila, Robotics Research: The Eleventh International Symposium, page 506:

     This process provides an unpatternable sheet of silicon nitride that electrically isolates the devices […]