ISBN: | 978-5-5109-9107-9 |
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A micropipe, also called micropore, microtube, capillary defect or pinhole defect, is a crystallographic defect in a single crystal substrate. Today this is of great interest to makers of silicon carbide (SiC) substrates which are used in a variety of industries such as power semiconductor devices for vehicles and high frequency communication devices.