About Silicon Nitride
Silicon Nitride has the most versatile combination of mechanical, thermal, and electrical properties of any technical ceramic material. It is a high performance technical ceramic that is extremely hard and has exceptional thermal shock and impact resistance. It surpasses most metals high temperature capabilities and has a superior combination of creep and oxidation resistance and high strength. Additionally, its low thermal conductivity and high wear resistance make it an excellent material that can withstand the toughest of conditions in the most demanding industrial applications. Silicon Nitride is an excellent choice when high-temperature and high-load abilities are needed.

Silicon Nitride Properties:
- High strength over a large temperature range
- High fracture toughness
- Good flexural strength
- Mechanical fatigue & creep resistant
- Lightweight – Low density
- High hardness and wear resistance, both impingement and frictional modes
- High stiffness
- Wear resistant
- Superior thermal shock resistance
- Does not break and its strength does not decline even when repeatedly dropped into room-temperature water after heating to 1,400 °C.
- Low thermal expansion
- Electrical insulator
- Good oxidation resistance
- Good chemical corrosion resistance

Silicon Nitride Applications:
- Rotating ball & rollers bearings
- Cutting tools
- Engine moving parts — valves, turbocharger rotors, rocker arm pads
- Induction heating coil supports
- Turbine blades, vanes, buckets
- Welding & brazing jigs
- Heating Element components
- Crucibles
- Metal tube forming rolls and dies
- TIG / Plasma welding nozzles
- Weld positioners
- Precision shafts and axles in high wear environments
- Thermocouple sheaths & tubes
- Semiconductor Process Equipment